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Subject: [Leica] T Stops
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:59:03 -0400
References: <380-2201010327142847374@M2W106.mail2web.com> <p06230918c8ee44354d5d@192.168.1.18> <AANLkTik34EaywGyFEtod3BG5h4d0_-1zUx8j4dP8+0_0@mail.gmail.com>

I always thought t-stops were all about matching cuts in feature films

With t-stops and pro-batch corrections, those three camera shots could be 
more readily matched in a final edit

ric

 
On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
> archiphoto.com> wrote:
>> In view of the above I remain quite skeptical about this article as a 
>> whole.
>> I don't think they have a true handle on what's happening, just as DXO
>> doesn't seem to have a handle on some of their 'quality' criteria or
>> measurements.
> 
> T stops.  I remember when "they" decided to make it an issue for film
> cameras. It started to fall apart almost immediately.  If I recall,
> not too many companies reissued lenses with T stops.   Arriflex Zeiss
> lenses did it, but most of us did not rush out and sell our Angenieux
> lenses so we could join the club.
> 
> After all, we were shooting Color Neg, and if we transferred to video
> on Rank chains or if we were going straight to print, we had great
> timers doing scene-by-scene corrections.
> 
> I was shooting with a CP16 reflex with ttl exposure meter, but I still
> always took incident readings if I could.  Later, most of my docs were
> with Aaton cameras, but always with Angenieux glass, so T stops were
> never anything I cared about.
> 
> The article seems like it is blowing smoke.  I am not too weird-ed out
> if my camera might change the iso slightly to make the picture better
> . . . but then, I'm never in a position to make images that are
> repeatable.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 
> USA
> 
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