You guys sound like the member of the legislature (a true story!) who quite seriously proposed a bill, changing the value of Pi (*) to exactly 3.0, to aid in the terrible confusion young folks had with all these irrational numbers! Let's make it easier on them!
keith whaley Bob Walkden wrote: > > Hi, > > > Thanks for the explanation. I do understand the basic concept, although I am > > lousy at math. I was being tongue-in-cheek, as I think Bob was. > > not entirely! Although I don't suppose anybody's going to change the > system just because I think it's confusing. The f-stop system is > probably useful to lens designers and so on, but it's just a relic of > the Victorian age, that's not useful to people using cameras these > days, and probably never has been; in fact it's positively harmful > because it's so counter-intuitive - it drives people away from > photography. I never understood it when I was learning and just had > to accept it. When it had been hard-wired into my brain I made an effort > to understand it, but understanding it does nothing to improve your > photography, so from that point of view it's not worth knowing. > > --- > > Bob
