Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/30/00 1:33:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, telyt560@cswebmail.com writes: << Among the others are hand-held photos with long lenses at shutter speeds as slow as 1/60 sec., using a shoulder stock to damp the higher-frequency vibrations with my body mass. Many of these hand-held photos are of fleeting moments where IMHO a camera & lens stuck on a tripod would be unworkably cumbersome and too unresponsive to have made the photo. >> The issue of a tripod's inconvenience is not unnoted by wildlife photographers, and I'm sure many shots are missed as a result. Handholding long lenses even with a shoulder stock has its practical limitations. The 400/2.8's and 600/4's used by a lot of career wildlife pros are next-to-impossible for anyone but a bodybuilder to hold steady with shoulder stocks. I've handheld my 300/2.8 (the longest I currently own, not counting my Viso 400/6.8 and 500 Mirror lens) with 2X when the shot looked so good that it was worth a try. At 8 fps the odds are better than even that a sharp frame will result. I haven't tried out one of the new Canon IS teles yet, but I am curious. Doc