The relationship between f stops and factor is NOT a square root. As
demonstrated in my previous e-mail: " the square root of a factor of 8 is
2.8 but we all know that a factor of 8 equals exactly 3 stops (2X2X2)."
The relationship is exponential factors of 2 NOT the square root which is
ONE SPECIFIC exponential factor of 2.
Therefore it DOES happen to correspond to the square root in some SPECIFIC
cases but not all.
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BOB
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-----Original Message-----
From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ralph W. Lambrecht
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:46 PM
To: PureSilverNew
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: estimating filter factor: gray card?
I still don't see how you want to use square roots to convert filter factors
into stops or visa versa. I believe the equations given below do that much
simpler.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2006-10-03 02:07, "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PureSilverNew" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:57 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: estimating filter factor: gray
card?
The square root function is not used to turn filter
factors into f/stops or
visa versa? I think this has caused some confusion before.
The conversion can be done using the following:
x = 2^N
log(x) = log(2)*N
N = log(x)/log(2)
where x is the filter factor and N is the amount of stops.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
Stops are definitely square and square root functions.
One can do roots in log form by multiplying or dviding by
the root required, that is 2^4 can be found by taking
anti-log of (Log 2 *4) and roots by deviding the log by the
root required. The (2) factor in your equations above are
square and square-root functions. Most calculators do
exponentials by means of log look up tables.
---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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