William Robb wrote: > From: Adam Maas > Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:52:47 -0800 > >> You don't agree, that's nice. > >> It works for me. Note also (as per our last go 'round on the subject of >> open-aperture metering) that I'm rarely shooting more than 2 stops down >>from wide open. And I shoot with fast lenses. > > It seems to me that shooting a fast lens stopped down a couple of stops > would give a similar viewfinder > brightness as using a zoom lens wide open, but you would have the benefit > of a generally higher contrast image to work with. > I can't believe people can't figure this out and choose to argue about it > instead, > since we've been manually focusing zoom lenses in the f/4-f/5.6 maximum > aperture range for a > couple of decades. > Obviously, it's doable. > > William Robb > >
Yep. And I prefer to be as cloe to wide-open as is workable, I like to see the character of the lens which is so often hidden at small apertures, as well as shallow DoF. So I shoot fast glass wide open (And hit my head on max shutter speeds all the time). I actually get a lot of questions when people look at my exposure data, usually along the lines of 'why the hell did you shoot this at 1/3200 and f3.3?' or similar, or conversely 'how did you get the nice out of focus areas?'. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
