Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My point was not that one should not use small apertures, merely that at the smaller apertures the difference between the finest lenses and more modest ones is much smaller, so paying a great deal of money for lenses which will rarely be used in a way which displays their superiority is not a wise allocation of funds. OTOH I am rarely accused of allocating funds wisely myself... FD On 18 May, 2013, at 21:09, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Just because we invest some extra money into a premium piece of glass which > enables us to shoot with out stopping down with all needed contrast and > resolution does not mean that to shoot a picture at f 11 we have committed > some transgression of taste and tactfulness. When a picture requires any f > stop we used that f stop to take that picture. Any of them. I used f22 the > night before last in times square. With an 80mm f2 lens. Hand held. At > dusk. > The iso by the way fell to iso 1000. It was not a Leica lens though but I'd > like to think that when I do use a Leica lens I can continue to use any f > stop the image requires. > > > On 5/18/13 2:44 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > >