[Leica] Zeiss Planar T and no beer

Leowesson leowesson at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 18:20:07 PDT 2015


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 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?
> 
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