Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You have to factor in how many negatives are damaged when the hapless photographer gets his Diafine bottles switched during development. But I will try again tonight with some Delta 400. I cannot find any Fuji 800 anywhere in the house. But that ratio does have me up near emporer status. :-0 On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:30:14 -0700, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: > Sciences have their ratios carved in stone, > reflecting wisdom and truth...certainly we could > barely function in science and medicine without > critical numerical relationships that guide us and > reassure us in times of uncertainty... > > How might this relate to photography ? > ...well.... I wonder, if we haven't by a stroke > of good fortune tumbled to the concept of the L to > P ratio. > The L/P ratio, where L= the # of lenses owned, > and P = the # of photographs taken... might go > something like this.... when L/P exceeds 10, the > image quality of each photo taken goes up by > some constant, for example , by the square of the > ratio... > > we can actually make this work to our advantage > in two unrelated ways...1. buy more lenses and > 2. take fewer photographs... > > ...possibly someone can help me with this, my math > was never much good.... > > ;-) > > Steve > > >>>someone optimistically said....I've got the multicoated one but have > >>>not had much of an opportunity > >>>to use it yet. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >