Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi George, I would shoot 3 on, 1 sheet 1/2 under 1 sheer 1/2 over. I would run the on, under and over and hold the ons for push or pull. Ever use read loads? Saved me hours every day. Leo Wesson leowesson.com > On Sep 21, 2015, at 18:45, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at > icloud.com> wrote: > > back in the day: > growing up in a commercial photo studio: > primarily shooting 8x10, 5x7 and 4x5 chromes > all the brackets were in 1/3 stops > > 1/3 under > 1/3 over > and dead on > > That's what was done on every single studio shot. > Insured 3 usable exposures > with subtly nuanced differences in the shadows and highlights. > > a note off the iPad, George > > On Sep 21, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> Like last week I was shooting at aperture priority high noon midtown >> thinking I was such a smart and wonderful guy and I checked and saw I'd >> been >> shooting at f 7.1! I'd never even knew there was an f 7.1! Seemed ill >> advised. I thought about going back and trying to reshoot everything. " f >> 7.1 and be there" does not have resonance for me. What are you really >> going >> to get at f 7.1? But checking my screen thing on the back of the camera >> they >> all seemed ok. In focus even. But hoped my camera would not slip off f 8 >> again and start shooting at some verkakte f stop. >> I first set my D100 at half stops when I first got the thing in 2003 but >> was >> told by a photoapher friend who'd been shooting flagship Nikons for a >> decade >> now that I was being a big baby and should get with it. So I set it back >> to >> thirds which as the default.. Seemed to make it easier to adjust the thing >> as I was fine tuning my exposure compensation when a picture came out too >> light or too dark. >> I will say that some of these half stops I just looked up I'd never heard >> of >> either. F lucky 13! And we get f13 with third stops as well. >> It's an interdisciplinary f stop. >> I can't wait to try out f13 when I go out shooting later on this >> afternoon! >> If someone made a lock so when you set your f stop it didn't slip off I'd >> buy that camera. How disconcerting to find that for while now you've been >> shooting at f14! As it's an f stop nobody ever heard of. >> I agree half stops are much more humane. But its a dog eat dog world out >> there. I've gone thirds and only once looked back. >> f13 and be there! >> >> >> >> Third stops >> f 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.5 2.8 3.2 >> 3.5 4 4.5 5.0 5.6 6.3 7.1 8 9 10 11 13 >> 14 16 18 20 22 25 29 32 >> >> Half stops >> 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.7 2 2.4 2.8 3.3 4 4.8 5.6 >> 6.7 >> 8 9.5 11 13 16 19 22 27 32 >> >>> On 9/21/15 2:20 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks to everyone on the lug for their advice, I got the 50mm Zeiss >>> Planar T >>> f2 to replace my Serenar 50mm 1.8. I can?t post any photos with it until >>> I >>> find some luggers to go LeicaStacking in a dark pub, but I can say that >>> Jim >>> Shulman was correct in that the 1/3 stop clicks are annoying as sand in >>> your >>> margarita. Whose Idea was that? > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information