Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/24

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Subject: [Leica] CV 40 1.4 or the L/P ratio...
From: jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri Dec 24 14:33:05 2004
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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.
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Replies: Reply from jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] CV 40 1.4 or the L/P ratio...)
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