Anyone who can't learn about f stops in five minutes should take up another hobby. Its possible for a child to understand this concept. This post has become so silly I'm going to give up now. What a lot of you know what.
Don Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Re[4]: Why I won't be buying an MZ-S > In a message dated 11/25/2002 3:01:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Hi, > > > > you've misunderstood. I'm not suggesting any changes to the laws of > > physics. I'm suggesting a simpler user interface to the laws of > > physics, eg: > > > > Label f-stop > > 1 90 > > 2 64 > > 3 45 > > 4 32 > > 5 22 > > 6 16 > > 7 11 > > 8 8 > > 9 5.6 > > 10 4 > > 11 2.8 > > 12 2 > > 13 1.4 > > 14 1 > > 15 0.7 > > > > Label the lens as indicated. Then the number gets bigger when the hole > > gets bigger. That's all. 99.99999% of people using cameras don't need > > to know anything about the f-stop system, and the f-stop > > system > > confuses people when they're trying to learn to use cameras. > > > > --- > > > > Bob > > Bravo! > > I am certainly enough of a newbie to know how confusing it is to learn. (Though I've got the basic prinicple down now, but there are other things I still find confusing.) > > In our class (recently finished), about 1/2 of the students dropped out. When the teacher explained f stops one night (well, actually this was the first night because I asked her which f stop I should probably use on the first assignment because I had an all manual camera and knew diddly about which f stop to choose -- she really wanted to explain f stops later, most had auto cameras with manual override), one of the students asked, "Are you sure this beginning photography???" > > Doe aka Marnie Hehehe. >
