Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/02

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Subject: [Leica] 1.8 vs. 1.4!?!?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:47:57 -0400

2/3's as a decimal is 0.6666.
0.7251 - 0.6666  = 0.0585
Cant figure out what fraction that would be.

Bottom line a 1.4 is for sure faster than a 1.8 not by an incremental amount
like I thought.
 



-- 
Mark R.


> From: Quan Tran <quantran101 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:36:00 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1.8 vs. 1.4!?!?
> 
> I found this: http://imaginatorium.org/stuff/stops.htm
> 
> When I select "precised", it show 0.7251 stops
> When I select "third", it gave me 2/3 stops.
> 
> -Quan.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I looked up f 1.8 vs. 1.4 thinking it was between a half and a quarter of 
>> a
>> stop and they are saying its 2/3rds!?!?! Anybody know that that's true?
>> 
>> Where is there a photo calculator that tells you these things?!?!?
>> 
>> --
>> Mark R.
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> Quan Tran.
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