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Subject: [Leica] 1.8 vs. 1.4!?!?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:52:53 -0400

And an f1 lens is 0.9709 stops faster than a 1.4.
Rounded off to an even stop when you select the other options.
And 1.696 stops faster than a 1.8.
That's faster!

And I thought an f 1.8 was fast!

I used to think an f2 was fast. Because my first camera had a 50mm f 2.8
Scopar on it. I still think of 2.8 as "normal".


-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:47:57 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1.8 vs. 1.4!?!?
> 
> 2/3's as a decimal is 0.6666.
> 0.7251 - 0.6666  = 0.0585
> Cant figure out what fraction that would be.
> 
> Bottom line a 1.4 is for sure faster than a 1.8 not by an incremental 
> amount
> like I thought.
>  
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark R.
> 
> 
>> From: Quan Tran <quantran101 at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:36:00 -0700
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1.8 vs. 1.4!?!?
>> 
>> I found this: http://imaginatorium.org/stuff/stops.htm
>> 
>> When I select "precised", it show 0.7251 stops
>> When I select "third", it gave me 2/3 stops.
>> 
>> -Quan.
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I looked up f 1.8 vs. 1.4 thinking it was between a half and a quarter 
>>> of a
>>> stop and they are saying its 2/3rds!?!?! Anybody know that that's true?
>>> 
>>> Where is there a photo calculator that tells you these things?!?!?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Mark R.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> -- 
>> Quan Tran.
>> blog: http://fluxlux.blogspot.com/
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