[Leica] Zeiss Planar T and no beer

[Mark Rabiner]

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 can¹t 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?
> 
> I¹ve also noticed that the official hood is $84 though $3 will get you any
> number of swank hoods that also fit on ebay.
> 
> Q: Does a square hood look cooler than a round one? And do vented hoods go
> faster?
> 
> kc
> 
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
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