[Leica] Zeiss Planar T and no beer

[George Lottermoser]

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 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?