Can we talk F stops

sobolik · Dec 14, 2010

Bitter Jeweler said:
sobolik said:

Very simple you refer to a chart of facts: Online Depth of Field Calculator

OR

IF YOU ARE LIKE ME YOU STUDY THE CHART A GREAT DEAL AND THEN CHUCK IT. THEN YOU SIMPLY GO MAX OR MIN F STOP FOR MAX DEPTH OF FIELD OR MINIMUM DEPTH OF FIELD. THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN IN MY WORLD. (all caps are a clue which way you should go) For normal shooting I do use the middle F stops. But not when my main concern is DOF.

I don't worry about the idiosyncrasies in the middle. No one will notice. But they do notice the max and min effect oftentimes.

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Dude.
So what you are saying is you contradict yourself a lot.

Before you go off on someones reading comprehension skills, you should learn to write more effectively.

ROFLMHO! The bitter's brain power is limited to one liner annoyances. Never did I ever expect the Bitter to comprehend one single sentence. Much less a concept.

Overread · Dec 14, 2010

sobolik said:
Nice but hardly a typical photo. Rather go out and take typical photos and see if any can put them in aperture order. Like for example the family outside with the park in the background. Or the kid riding a bike going down the side walk.

I looked at the site and really find it all confusing. I don't think the shots were taken for the assignment.Rather it looks like the shots were taken before and now attempted to be force fit into this assignment. "Once each series of shots was taken the magnification was adjusted to the next level (as written on the lens barrel) and the focusing rail repositioned to aquire the new focus. "

It don't work for me. Neat photos never the less.

Depends on the definition of typical now - however a coins is far more reliable a subject for me to work within test conditions than an insect where its own motion (combined with any environmental motions) would make a test like this incredibly hard to pull off.
As for the test itself - true there are shots at different magnifications but check the titles and EXIF - within each magnifiaction range a series of shots were taken at varying apertures such as I posted above.