It wasn't landscapes, but I've shot a lot of documentary photos handheld at
1/2 sec or even 1 sec. Just brace against something and you're fine! At
the time I was shooting TMAX 3200 pushed to 6400 and using a Noctilux at
1.0. It is really, really dark in those adobe houses! Like most of these:
http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/Central-America/Honduras/Honduras/3917411_sWqp63#!i=1213150734&k=n398phZ
Tina
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:26 AM, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't think the images were as good as those by landscape photographers
> who were using tripods and exploiting hyperfocal distance for all it's
> worth, but it is not hard to take good landscape photos of many subjects at
> those speeds, considering the distances involved, even with an Olympus
> SLR. Plus, this ilk of photographers prided themselves at being steady
> down to 1/15 and so forth. Plus 2, Leica guys were all about that kind of
> stuff, which was my point.
>
> This guy claimed he could get off sharp 1/2 sec shots while bracing himself
> against a building. It was like an ad for Leica. And indirectly, he was
> saying, "Your SLR can't do that." And he would have been right, and he
> still is.
>
> In any case, it was 30 years ago I found the book. It was not small. It
> was a coffee-table sized book. I got it from the library. Not much chance
> of finding it again, even if I wished to put the time into it.
>
> Joel W.
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'd suggest you examine those images carefully. I assume the book was
> > small. Really sharp shots for large images are just not possible hand
> held
> > at 1/30 sec. Also, hyperfocal distance for even a 28mm lens at f/2.8
> puts
> > minimum focus distance pretty far away. You won't find near foreground
> > flowers in focus which means the nearest items in the scene are likely 15
> > feet or further (unless the image is kept small)
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> > On 5/25/2014 2:15 PM, DZDub wrote:
> >
> >> Chris,
> >> You and Moose must have been snorting the same stuff.
> >>
> >> I once saw an interesting book of landscape photography by a Brit and
> >> noted
> >> that most of the shots were made around 1/30 sec at f2.8. He was
> >> hand-holding a Leica loaded with KM. At that time I was a full-bore f64
> >> kind of guy and lugged a Bogen everywhere. It did shake me up a little,
> >> as
> >> his photographs were beautiful. I've split the difference and shoot at
> >> f7.1 a lot more. :)
> >>
> >> Joel W.
> >>
> >
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