If you could only use 1 f-stop for an entire year...

[benjiboy]

A leading film manufacturer, probably Kodak, I can't remember which one it was a long time ago, about what apertures most pictures were taken at, the results were that the majority were shot at f8 and smaller.

 

[Rol_Lei Nut]

APUG does not revolve around 35mm alone.
Steve

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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?

 

[sandholm]

f64 be my choice or as high the lens go that is attached to the camera

 

[Blacknoise]

I had a hard time choosing, shoot most things at a middle apeture, but some of the Russian Sonnar copies have lovely, creamy bokeh...

 

[paulie]

f32 for my cams, you just cant get better than that , especially at 8x10

f4 whats that my lenses dont even include those numbers .lol

i guess your all talking about the amateur formats

 

[JBrunner]

Ahh.. for 35mm!! most of y work with 135 is done as open as the lens will go, so I voted 2.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

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.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Eric
Hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but this is the silliest thing I have seen on the site.
Michael

What he said.

 

[Sirius Glass]

This was posted under
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?

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

 

[Rol_Lei Nut]

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"!

 

[Ian Grant]

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

 

[colrehogan]

I'd have to say probably f/8 (and I won't go into MF or LF here!)

 

[Eric Rose]

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.

 

[benjiboy]

Unless I have a good reason to blur the background or get extensive d.o.f. by using a small aperture, if the light conditions allow I try to use f 8, because most lenses perform better in the middle.

 

[Brandon D.]

F/4, baby!!!

 

[Sirius Glass]

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.

Are your pills better than mine?? Please send me some!

Steve

 

[removed-user-1]

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!

 

[jmcd]

I vote 5.6, and that will be on a 50mm lens. This is my favorite aperture, because it looks so good.

 

[Eric Rose]

Yes I have wonderful pills . 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.

 

[lxdude]

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.

 

[MattKing]

This was posted under
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?

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

 

[Eric Rose]

Does anyone ever read the original post? Oh well it's still entertaining.

 

[Denis R]

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)

 

[narsuitus]

For clarification, if I set my lens to f/8 and then added a 2x tele-converter, would I have to change the setting to f/4 or could I just leave it at f/8 even though the effective f/stop would be f/16?

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

A 2x tele converter will drop two stops on your f-stop scale. A 1.4x will drop one stop.