Favorite aperture?

[Livesteamer]

Sorry, but I'm of the other sort. On my IIIc the shutter is almost always on 200 and I set the f stop as needed since it's a day time camera. On my M's I usually use 250 as a lowest speed and use what ever f stop is needed. I'm getting older and not as steady and find I get better results if I keep a fast shutter speed and trust the rangefinder to get my focus where I want it. That's how I work but I'm sure others work differently. Joe

 

[froyd]

I do like f8 on 35mm with a 35mm lens as my ever-ready, just in case aperture.

For 6x6 I mainly shoot at 5.6 with a normal lens to give me a little more play room than absolute wide-open.

Started my photographic journey as "always the largest aperture the lens would allow" because coming from P&S w/ slow lenses I wanted what I was missing before. Now I mellowed out!

 

[dct]

My favorite aperture? The one that's right for the situation.

Exactly the same. Lens, body, ISO, DoF requirements, light, motion... too many variables to stick at one value.

 

[Spavinaw]

f0.95. Why? Because I have it and you don't! 😀 😀 😀 Just kidding!

 

[redisburning]

whatever gives me the DoF equivalent of f5.6 on a 50mm lens.

you can have a favorite without excluding everything else. Just because I like Simon and Garfunkel doesnt mean I refuse to listen to anything else.

 

[JayM]

11 or 16

16 if I can get it 🙂

 

[kmallick]

hmmm. I guess you are stuck with f/256 if you like pinhole photography.

 

[splitimageview]

I guess I don't get it.

However without a doubt my favorite shutter speed is 1/500, my favorite focus point is 1.5 meters, and favorite EV is 12. 🙂

 

[wolves3012]

As a few others have said - the one that's right at the time. I like to go for somewhere around the middle of what the lens has, range-wise, unless I have a compelling reason to stray from that. That tends to be somewhere in the f/5.6-f/11 range for most of my lenses.

However, there often *is* a compelling reason to stray - like not enough light, for instance! Or wanting a particular DOF...and so on back to the original "whatever is right".

 

[jordan.dickinson]

f2 or f4 for me. It depends, but I love a smooth background for portraits. Don't do a lot of street shooting, so f8-f11 doesn't really come up.

 

[celluloidprop]

Depends on the photo, of course, but light-permitting I tend to default to f/4 - usually right in the lens's sweet spot, depth of field to cover most eventualities while still blurring the distance out of distraction.

 

[capito]

I try to stay around 5.6 - 8 as far as light permits. I try to keep stopped down to compensate for poor focusing skills.

 

[cambolt]

My Jupiter 8 doesn't have click stops, so my aperture is always what is reasonably close to whatever I intended to set it to...
But for street photography etc focusing often takes too long, so f/2 is quite impractical. Plus, as a relatively new Leica user I often find myself paranoid about having my shutter burned by the Australian sun when wide open.

 

[jsrockit]

Depends on the focal length and lens I'm using. Also, obviously, the light. Seems silly to have a favorite...

 

[F6Roger]

Favorite aperture

Favorite aperture

I'm wondering what your favorite aperture is? Mine is f5.6 for all my lenses unless available light just doesn't permit it.

No favorite, but try and get between 5.6 ~ 11, but mostly whatever the big burning fireball demands 🙂

 

[Aristophanes]

5.6 because it works so well for candid portraits on the fly in good light and with flash at ISO 400.