Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 can?t 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? > > I?ve also noticed that the official hood is $84 though $3 will get you any > number of swank hoods that also fit on ebay. > > Q: Does a square hood look cooler than a round one? And do vented hoods go > faster? > > kc > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/