Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/04

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Subject: [Leica] Narrow DoF on the Leica E-3
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue Mar 4 15:20:07 2008
References: <200803041501.m24EtxJT018223@server1.waverley.reid.org> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0803041225340.17368@mail.2alpha.com>

Hi Peter, is there a way for Photoshop or something to give the 
average EV value or whatever so I don't have to eyeball the results? 
I ended up using something like
...
1/2500 @ F2.8
1/5000 @ F2.0
1/8000 @ F1.4

The shutter speed max out at 1/8000. So in theory, the F1.4 is 
overexposure by 25%? Eyeballing the resulting RAW ORF files, the 1.4 
is actually darker, so it may support your theory that the difference 
is less than the one stop.

All the other files look similar, except that *may be* at F11, it is 
brighter by a tad, but may be it's the cloud moving away :-) Not very 
dramatic though. F16 is fine again.

So not very scientific, but may support your thesis...

Oh, I do have both the 50/2 macro and the 90/2 macro, and they do 
look wonderful with the E-3.

At 12:45 PM 3/4/2008, Peter Klein wrote:
>Richard:  Would you do me a favor?  Meter something once at a medium 
>aperture. Then take a series of equivalent manual exposures. Such as:
>
>1/30, f/4
>1/60, f/2.8
>1/125,f/2
>1/250,f/1.4
>
>Are resulting images the same exposure, or is f/1.4 much darker? If 
>you're game, try the whole range of f-stops. Do things get out of 
>whack again at f/11 or f/16?

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
please use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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