The Most Used F-Numbers Are…
By Brian Auer • August 3rd, 2009A few weeks back, we ran a poll asking What’s Your Favorite F-Number? And with over 500 votes, here are the results:
The biggest peak shows that f/2.8 is most widely preferred among the Epic Edits photographers, with f/8 rolling in at 2nd place and f/2.0 in a very close 3rd.
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Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from North Idaho. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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you found a unique way to illustrate these results
Whoa. That’s a trippy chart.
Nice chart, 2.8 this is a little surprising!
It would be interesting if the poll was done from actual EXIF analysis rather than just personal preferences. My preference is f1.4 (until I get a 1.2 lens), but my EXIF analysis shows that 2.8 is most used.
Results aside, I too really love the way you did the bars for each column.
2.8 for me, I love the pictures of the lenses with the correct corresponding apature.
Interesting! I’d also like to see the most used F-stop per category such as landscape, portrait and etc. Thanks for the post!