Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] STOP THE PUMMELING! HAVE MERCY! I'M DEAD ALREADY!
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:06:09 -0700
References: <NBBBIDNIGLFOKNLJCPLHAEAMGKAA.ddh@home.com>

Dan Honemann wrote:
> 
> > My word, I have felt the swift and relentless pointy steel toed boot of
> > the lug! now i know what it's like when a rugby player gets the ball. i
> > stand corrected! f 1.0 is a full stop faster than f 1.4.
> 
> Yeah, but you _said_ it was only a third of a stop faster, remember?  Huh,
> huh?  Remember?
> 
> ;)

Let's not forget the topic of if f1 is really f1 on those superfast lenses or
not is an old one.
And it's not the mathematics of whether F1 is a stop more than 1.4.
It's a real live results fudging kind of thing... 
as in in practice it was not a stop faster.
right?


Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/

In reply to: Message from "Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com> (RE: [Leica] STOP THE PUMMELING! HAVE MERCY! I'M DEAD ALREADY!)