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Time To Get Rid Of The F-Stop—What Do We Call The Replacement

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Yeah I know there’s some redundancy to it but it has a ring to it.
 
richiebee said:
Yeah I know there’s some redundancy to it but it has a ring to it.
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You can see the posts now:

"mine has a bigger A-hole than yours does"!
 
SmilerGrogan said:
Because so many atrocities and outrages against photography have been committed in its name, it is time to abandon the term “f/stop” and with it all the useless emotional and linguistic baggage it has accumulated in the last few years on these forums.

Now, with f/stop permanently in the rearview mirror,
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what do you mean by this?
SmilerGrogan said:
what would be a good name for the adjustable-sized hole in a lens that regulates the amount of energy passing through?
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I prefer f/stop...clear, nice and easy
 
We should call it The DOF dial ..

Because if you set it to dof 1.8 you get narrow dof and when you set it to dof 22 you get a lot of dof.

It makes sense!

Mark_A
 
I think it is time to do away with the word “camera.”

i mean really, who even speaks Latin these days?
 
Ellis Vener said:
I think it is time to do away with the word “camera.”

i mean really, who even speaks Latin these days?
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In the early days they were called Kodak like paper tissues are called Kleenex and gelatin disserts are called Jello.
 
Or maybe continuously adjustable opening or CAO.

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Tom
 
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First couple of responses are quite spicy. I like it
 
(F-stop update)
 
SmilerGrogan said:
Because so many atrocities and outrages against photography have been committed in its name, it is time to abandon the term “f/stop” and with it all the useless emotional and linguistic baggage it has accumulated in the last few years on these forums.

Now, with f/stop permanently in the rearview mirror, what would be a good name for the adjustable-sized hole in a lens that regulates the amount of energy passing through?
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Don't throw something out until you have a replacement.
 
I'm gonna take all my vintage lenses and very meticulously fill in the f-stop numbers engraved on the variable light entry hole thingy adjustment rings with black enamel paint, so as to permanently get rid of the f-stops.

I think progress has been made here...!!!
 
Is this one of those threads where the op posts some nonsense (either wittingly or unwittingly) and then, perhaps after reading some of the replies, decides to disappear from the thread altogether?
 
Chaplain Mark said:
I'm gonna take all my vintage lenses and very meticulously fill in the f-stop numbers engraved on the variable light entry hole thingy adjustment rings with black enamel paint, so as to permanently get rid of the f-stops.
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Don't bother. When that happens your vintage lenses will be obsolete and useless.
Chaplain Mark said:
I think progress has been made here...!!!
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camerosity said:
Ellis Vener said:
I think it is time to do away with the word “camera.”

i mean really, who even speaks Latin these days?
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I thought it was Italian!
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Because of your moniker I will elaborate the point.

Camera was indeed a Latin word used to mean room, more particularly a bedroom.

The term Camera Obscura literally means Dark Room.

In Italian a bedroom is still called camera or more precisely camera da letto, so the dining room is camera da pranzo.

The Italian term for camera is commonly now fotocamera but used to be apparecchio fotografico or macchina fotografica.

Italians call anything that moves macchina. So a car (automobile) is most often called macchina.
 
SmilerGrogan said:
Because so many atrocities and outrages against photography have been committed in its name, it is time to abandon the term “f/stop” and with it all the useless emotional and linguistic baggage it has accumulated in the last few years on these forums.

Now, with f/stop permanently in the rearview mirror, what would be a good name for the adjustable-sized hole in a lens that regulates the amount of energy passing through?
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Why try to fix something that ain't broke!
 
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