Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Friends, I am offering this image as a comment on the recent threads on handholding and photographing other people's children: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/jpbaby1.jpg I am usually not satisfied when I use the 1/focal length formula for a "safe" handholding speed. Perhaps I should cut down on caffeine/nicotine, but certainly for landscape or architecture it just does not work for me. On the other hand, the image of this child was taken handheld with my M6 (on E200 with the Apo Telyt 135mm) at 1/250 sec. I think that this kind of shot works even if it is obvious that there is some camera shake and/or subject movement. By the time I would have taken the tripod out of the car and set it up, the moment would have disappeared. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/index.html Belgium photo page: http://member.xoom.com/wajsman/index.htm Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html