Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Brougham <brougham3@yahoo.com> wrote: >Andre Jean Quintal <megamax@abacom.com> wrote: > >> It's stupid to use an f/1 lens at f/5.6 or f/8. > >More so than using an f/1.4 lens at f/11 or f/16? Should I never use >my f/2 lens at f/22? I don't understand. >====================================================================== >I think he means that it's stupid to fit a Noctilux if you're going to >stop it down all the time to f/5.6 or f/8 ... in other words, why >burden yourself with something you're not going to use? Why not use a >more compact lens, of lower cost, that can do the same job just as >well? >Ray watch it ray! our acceptance of your proposition hinges on your precise definition of "the same job"! for we hair-splitting american luggers, no one said it better than our soon-to-be-former president and free-styling philologist when he put forth that it all, and i quote: "depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is." ho! guy (who wishes his noctilux stopped down to f/64)