In a message dated 5/6/01 12:44:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
pcacala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> More food for thought: any lens test I did greater than 500mm picks up
> too much shutter vibration to be meaningful. I can see smeared vertical
> resolution chart lines, whereas the horizontal are distinct. Based on
> some wild horse shoots I just got back, shooting a tripod mounted 600mm
> in the 1/125 to 1/1000th sec. range and tripping the shutter while
> holding the body (as Olympus recommended in their earliest SIFs) will
> result in pictures that far exceed what the SQF grades would lead one to
> predict. But the SQF testing of long lenses demanded speeds between 1/8
> and 1/60. At those speeds it is almost impossible to dampen shutter
> vibration. For one, you don't dare hold the camera and pick up arm
> vibrations. Not even the use of two tripods worked for me.
Hi Gary,
Which 600mm were you using?
Gary Faulkenberry
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