Actually, it is better not to have the increments. If you need 1/3 stop
accuracy (as with slides), you don't want to set it 1/6 stop from the
1/2 stop "click".
Most (if not all) LF lenses have no stops so that the photographer can
set the f-stop anywhere he likes - it's just a function of how accurate
his meter is.
<snip>
I wish that Olympus had made their lenses with half-stop aperture
increments. But very few competitors ever did that (that I know),
including
Nikon, Canon, Minolta, and Pentax. (Am I wrong?) Leica and new
Voigtlander
lenses have the 1/2 stop dedents, and I really enjoy it. WHat it does
mean
is that the F-stops are further apart to make it easier to deal with the
larger number of clcks.
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