[Leica] Zeiss Planar T and no beer

Richard Man richard at richardmanphoto.com
Mon Sep 21 19:01:09 PDT 2015


So decadent to be able to afford 3 sheets!!

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Leowesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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