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Photography Q&A: Real Questions. Real Answers.
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Photography Q&A: Real Questions. Real Answers.

by Zack Arias
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 42m
English
New Riders
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All lenses are not created equal.

Q: DO TWO LENSES—ONE PRIME AND THE OTHER A ZOOM—LET IN THE SAME VOLUME OF LIGHT GIVEN THE SAME APERTURE? WILL AN 85MM PRIME AT F4 GIVE THE SAME EXPOSURE AS A 24–105MM ZOOM AT F4? DOES THE LENS CHANGE EXPOSURE?

A: An 85mm at, say, f4 should let in the same amount of light that a 24–105mm lens at f4 brings in. “Should” being the key word. In the real world, though, you may find this is not the case.

Manufacturers are often allowed a +/– 1/3 stop variation in manufacturing tolerances. That means that one lens at 2.8 could be +/– 1/3 of a stop from another lens at 2.8. You could own two lenses that are possibly 2/3 of a stop off from each other.

You may come across an old, used lens one day that has “+1/2” or “–1” ...

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