Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/25

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Subject: [Leica] CV 40 1.4 or the L/P ratio...
From: huntmc2 at fuse.net (Marshall Hunt)
Date: Sat Dec 25 11:36:47 2004
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One is a round Listerine bottle, the other is a square whiskey bottle No 
mixup, and you get to drink the contents.

.Jeffery Smith wrote:

>You have to factor in how many negatives are damaged when the hapless
>photographer gets his Diafine bottles switched during development. But
>I will try again tonight with some Delta 400. I cannot find any Fuji
>800 anywhere in the house.
>
>But that ratio does have me up near emporer status. :-0
>
>
>On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:30:14 -0700, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>Sciences have their ratios carved in stone,
>>reflecting wisdom and truth...certainly we could
>>barely function in science and medicine without
>>critical numerical relationships that guide us and
>>reassure us in times of uncertainty...
>>
>>How might this relate to photography  ?
>>...well.... I  wonder, if we haven't  by a stroke
>>of good fortune tumbled to the concept of the L to
>>P ratio.
>>The L/P ratio,  where L= the # of lenses owned,
>>and P = the # of photographs taken... might go
>>something like this.... when L/P  exceeds 10,  the
>>image quality of each photo  taken  goes up by
>>some  constant, for example , by the square of the
>>ratio...
>>
>>we can actually make this work to our advantage
>>in two unrelated ways...1. buy more lenses  and
>>2. take fewer photographs...
>>
>>...possibly someone can help me with this, my math
>>was never much  good....
>>
>>;-)
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>>someone optimistically said....I've got the multicoated one but have 
>>>>>not had much of an opportunity
>>>>>to use it yet.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
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In reply to: Message from masonster at gmail.com (David Mason) ([Leica] CV 40 1.4)
Message from jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] CV 40 1.4)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] CV 40 1.4)
Message from masonster at gmail.com (David Mason) ([Leica] CV 40 1.4)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] CV 40 1.4 or the L/P ratio...)
Message from jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] CV 40 1.4 or the L/P ratio...)