{"id":325,"date":"2009-03-05T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2012-05-06T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T15:23:42","slug":"figuring-out-focal-length-and-aperture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/figuring-out-focal-length-and-aperture\/","title":{"rendered":"Figuring out focal length and aperture of a vintage lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s entry is a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I think it&#8217;s a classic.  It&#8217;s been on the web for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Brunner shows how to calculate focal length and aperture.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that you say?  All lenses have the focal length and aperture printed on them.<\/p>\n<p>I think you need to go find yourself some older lenses to play with on a view camera.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to do that and think this video would be a waste of time, then you&#8217;re depriving yourself.  Go on, watch it.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen his stuff, it&#8217;s offbeat if not just downright strange.<\/p>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, pass the tortellini, please.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CIFNdfjem18&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CIFNdfjem18&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&#038;pub=5574782379&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5336191249&#038;customid=&#038;icep_uq=&#038;icep_sellerId=&#038;icep_ex_kw=&#038;icep_sortBy=1&#038;icep_catId=101642&#038;icep_minPrice=&#038;icep_maxPrice=&#038;ipn=psmain&#038;icep_vectorid=229466&#038;kwid=902099&#038;mtid=824&#038;kw=lg\">Vintage Lenses on eBay<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=9&#038;pub=5574782379&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5336191249&#038;customid=&#038;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s entry is a classic. Well, I think it&#8217;s a classic. It&#8217;s been on the web for a while. Jason Brunner shows how to calculate focal length and aperture. What&#8217;s that you say? All lenses have the focal length and aperture printed on them. I think you need to go find yourself some older lenses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-large-format-photography","category-lenses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}