If you could only use 1 f-stop for an entire year...
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APUG does not revolve around 35mm alone.
Steve
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APUG > APUG English Forums > Equipment > 35mm Cameras and Accessories >
I really don't go to the equivalent LF forum and start posting there about how light & small & fast ect. my Leica M is...
Why do so many LF users come to the 35mm forum and post how much better LF quality is?
f64 be my choice or as high the lens go that is attached to the camera
I had a hard time choosing, shoot most things at a middle apeture, but some of the Russian Sonnar copies have lovely, creamy bokeh...
Open WIIIIIIDE and say Aaaaahhhh...
I'd shoot wide open most of the time anyway. But that is different between my two lenses. f/2.8 (not in your list) for the 100mm and f/2 for the 55mm.
I'd shoot wide open most of the time anyway. But that is different between my two lenses. f/2.8 (not in your list) for the 100mm and f/2 for the 55mm.
What he said.
I started here shooting 35mm and added MF.
I read the threads by selecting "New Threads" and I have not eliminated any of the forums, since I am after photographic knowledge.
Steve
Absolutely no bones with reading and gaining knowledge...
It's just clear by the number of "f/64" answers here, that many posters either don't read the question carefully at all or just answer anyway.
I'd love to see the same question appear on the LF forum, so I could answer "f/1.4"!
I votet f16, when you see a new un-read thread you don't always spot what forum, so I thought of my current hand held work 6x6, 6x17 & 5x4 where I aim to use f16 where-ever possible. (The lights nearly always good and just below the max of my meter even in the winter )
But with 35mm I'd guess f5.6 - f8 except when shooting with my M3 when f2.8-f4, and when shooting with my 10x8 then f45-f64
Ian
)But with 35mm I'd guess f5.6 - f8 except when shooting with my M3 when f2.8-f4, and when shooting with my 10x8 then f45-f64
Ian
I'd have to say probably f/8 (and I won't go into MF or LF here!)
Geez guys it suppose to be a fun thread. Take a pill some of you. I shoot all formats but it seemed to me that there seemed to be quite a movement in the 35mm ranks to shoot wide open all the time. So I was just polling our membership to see where they sat.
If you think it's a dumb thread well frankly I don't give a crap
and neither do the people who have participated.
If you think it's a dumb thread well frankly I don't give a crap
and neither do the people who have participated.F/4, baby!!! 
Geez guys it suppose to be a fun thread. Take a pill some of you. I shoot all formats but it seemed to me that there seemed to be quite a movement in the 35mm ranks to shoot wide open all the time. So I was just polling our membership to see where they sat.
If you think it's a dumb thread well frankly I don't give a crap
Are your pills better than mine?? Please send me some!
Steve
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This isn't particularly silly actually. I voted for f/8 almost out of habit but after thinking it over I realized that most of the past few months I have been working almost wide open a lot (for lighting reasons, or because I've been playing with very shallow DOF). My latest fun experiment is using the Nikkor 55mm f/1.2 with three 14mm extension tubes... DOF is about a millimeter? wide open. Maybe I'll try that for a year!
Yes I have wonderful pills . Come to Cowtown instead of Kelowna and I'll give you some 
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It's interesting, the results that is. It seems we apug'rs are a pretty staid lot, going for the tried and true f8. But then again we have the fringe element that says to heck with convention lets let it all hang out and wide open.
. Come to Cowtown instead of Kelowna and I'll give you some .It's interesting, the results that is. It seems we apug'rs are a pretty staid lot, going for the tried and true f8. But then again we have the fringe element that says to heck with convention lets let it all hang out and wide open.
No 2.8 or 4... maybe you've already had some of that falling down water.
I picked f/8 because if I didn't I wouldn't be able to use my 500mm mirror for a whole year, and that ain't gonna happen.
I picked f/8 because if I didn't I wouldn't be able to use my 500mm mirror for a whole year, and that ain't gonna happen.
MattKing
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I would hazard a guess that a majority of those who post on APUG are like me - I read and enjoy and sometimes respond to posts in all sorts of forums, and often don't even notice which forum a thread initiates from.
For that reason, when I start a thread that is forum or format specific, I try to make sure that that is clear from the thread title.
Matt
f16
f16 seems to work fine for just about everything I do
especially with a range of 4 - 32 [55 - 200 mm] or 3.5 - 38 (18 - 55 mm)
f16 seems to work fine for just about everything I do
especially with a range of 4 - 32 [55 - 200 mm] or 3.5 - 38 (18 - 55 mm)
A 2x tele converter will drop two stops on your f-stop scale. A 1.4x will drop one stop.
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