The F8 Rule?!?

[ChristopherCoy]

I used to work for a professional who had a generic 'rule' that he went by, but I can't remember the specifics. He would tell me something along the lines of "use f8, if its cloudy go two stops up, and if its sunny go two stops down..."

Have any of you heard anything like this before? He had a name for it and I can't remember, and I'm not entirely sure that what I've said above is totally accurate, but its all I can seem to remember.

[Angelo]

Chris could it be the f16 rule?
Check the internet and you'll find it.
Here's one
http://www.photomigrations.com/articles/0403200.htm

[photonewb]

Originally Posted by Angelo

Chris could it be the f16 rule?
Check the internet and you'll find it.
Here's one
http://www.photomigrations.com/articles/0403200.htm

pffft...why bother with the rest of the interwebnets when there's an awesome sticky thread right here on TPF in this very section ;)

http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum...ad.php?t=72578

[venchka]

Sunny 16. I always thought f/8 was for cloudy conditions. f/4 seems a bit much for cloudy if you start at f/16 in full sun. I could be wrong.

[crackhead]

F/8 is regarded as a good aperture for photojournalism/street photography - sharp sweet-spot aperture that yields sufficient depth of field for manual focus cameras.

[ChristopherCoy]

YES YES YES! Thats it.... Thanks y'all!

Now I'm off to the Ft Worth Library to pick up a copy of 'Understanding Exposure.' Hopefully they wont all be checked out!

[johnastovall]

You really might want to read Ansel Adams , The Camera, The Negative, The Print so as to really understand the basics. Shooting some film with a fully manual camera would not do any harm either.

johnastovall added 2 Minutes and 36 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Originally Posted by crackhead

F/8 is regarded as a good aperture for photojournalism/street photography - sharp sweet-spot aperture that yields sufficient depth of field for manual focus cameras.

It's more for the Hyperfocus than any 'sweet spot' .

[venchka]

Originally Posted by crackhead

F/8 is regarded as a good aperture for photojournalism/street photography - sharp sweet-spot aperture that yields sufficient depth of field for manual focus cameras.

nO DOUBT F/8.0 IS THE SwEET SPOT ON 99% OF lenses made for 35mm cameras. Howsomever, the Sunny 16 Rule needs to be adjusted for f/8.0. You know that. Stovall knows that. I know that. Rookies don't know that.

Back to the original question: f/8.0 without ASA and shutter speed is meaningless.

Back to the street/lens sweet spot:
Sunny 16:
Shutter speed = 1/ASA
Aperture = f/16

crackhead's Sweet Spot Modification:
Shutter speed = 1/ASA + 2 stops faster
Aperture = f/8.0

Example:
Plus-X, Sunny 16 = f/16 @ 1/125sec.
Plus-X, Crackhead's Street Shoot = f/8.0 @ 1/500 sec.

The New Kids can substitute ISO for ASA.

Got it?

[DavidsStudio]

f/8 and be there ... that is the only f/8 rule I know of.

David

[L Stegall]

Originally Posted by ChristopherCoy

YES YES YES! Thats it.... Thanks y'all!

Now I'm off to the Ft Worth Library to pick up a copy of 'Understanding Exposure.' Hopefully they wont all be checked out!

Just buy it - it's a great reference book and you will refer to it over and over again.

[AllenAyres]

I'm a wedding photographer, I prefer the

Dim 2

or even the

Dark 1.4

[LEATHERNECK]

Originally Posted by venchka

nO DOUBT F/8.0 IS THE SwEET SPOT ON 99% OF lenses made for 35mm cameras. Howsomever, the Sunny 16 Rule needs to be adjusted for f/8.0. You know that. Stovall knows that. I know that. Rookies don't know that.

Back to the original question: f/8.0 without ASA and shutter speed is meaningless.

Back to the street/lens sweet spot:
Sunny 16:
Shutter speed = 1/ASA
Aperture = f/16

crackhead's Sweet Spot Modification:
Shutter speed = 1/ASA + 2 stops faster
Aperture = f/8.0

Example:
Plus-X, Sunny 16 = f/16 @ 1/125sec.
Plus-X, Crackhead's Street Shoot = f/8.0 @ 1/500 sec.

The New Kids can substitute ISO for ASA.

Got it?

LOL!!!!!.......

[venchka]

Originally Posted by AllenAyres

I'm a wedding photographer, I prefer the

Dim 2

or even the

Dark 1.4

Every rule has it's exceptions.

[The Philos]

I like the idea of shooting some film through an OM-1 (so Chris can get a stable of OM lenses and an OM-4/3 adapter)

Originally Posted by venchka

Every rule has it's exceptions.

Not in Esperanto.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by ThePhilosopher

I like the idea of shooting some film through an OM-1 (so Chris can get a stable of OM lenses and an OM-4/3 adapter)



Not in Esperanto.

Actually Esperanto has two...