Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary Todoroff wrote: >Actually, Ted, I wish I had done the water test last fall before taking my >280/4.5 Telyt on an SL up to document a monastery near Kodiak, Alaska. >Almost all of the daylight shots in shade where I was trying to get some >dof turned out blurred from resonant camera shake on a tripod. Most of the >shots were in the 1/4 to 1/30 second range. > >As it turned out therefore, my 280 pictures weren't worth "diddly squat". >All tripod photos with the M6 were just fine, and some 280 handheld ones >were OK, too, shot at 1/500. >>>>>>> Hi Gary, Sorry to hear about the "squiggly images" using the 280 thse longexposures will kill you nearly everytime. I learned that the hard way many years ago using long lenses and not the worlds greatest tripod nor arrangement when working in this kind of situation. Today I use a mono pod or small tripod just under the tip of the lens after I have focused and the shot is ready. Placing the extra support in this manner generally eliminates any "squigglies" with just a slight upward pressure. Altough I don't imagine it'd help during an earthquake.:) But then a good squiggly might be very illustrative! :) ted