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Subject: [OM] Olympus' Stabilization Method (was "Depth of field questions")
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 23:25:14 -0500
At 05:38 PM 5/5/2000 -0700, Gary Reese wrote:
>As an aside, I finally shot some hand held pictures of my test map.
>Surprise, the difference between tripod mounted shots using mirror and
>disphragm prefire versus hand held shots using a 50mm f/1.4 at 1/60th
>and 1/500th were TOO CLOSE to call! That says, 1) my hand holding
>ability is pretty stable and 2) not using mirror and diaphragm prefire
>when shooting an OM on a tripod PROBABLY will lead to worse results than
>if you had just hand held the camera in the 1/60th and faster shutter
>speed range.
>
>I can just hear Joel say: "Yikes, what's next?" Or "Now where is my
>laser pointer?"
>
>Gary Reese
>Las Vegas, NV

Gary,

What would you think it might suggest about Olympus' official technique of
holding the lens and firing the shutter with one's finger (instead of cable
release) with a tripod-mounted camera and lens?

Joel ("Yikes, where's my laser pointer?") Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA

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