Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/05

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Subject: [Leica] Masochism a 180mm and a gyroscope
From: s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)
Date: Fri Nov 5 16:48:22 2004

My youngest and myself have been more or less floored this week with some 
sort of lung eating bug.
I made her a little tent to watch 30,s cartoons from and made myself a 
contraption i wouldn,t want to take out on the street.
It was prompted a bit by the recent discussions on low shutter speeds.
What i did was to put a small Kenyon gyroscopic stabiliser underneath my 180 
R lens and used that with a 1.4 extender.
Luckily i have large hands so could still just move the focusing ring with a 
finger.
Our sickness makes us both a bit slow so that helped.
To my suprise it worked to about 1/4 second or so .These three are at 1/6 th 
1/4 and 1/2 second.
All with an indicated aperture of 3.4  which with the 1.4 extender should 
really be 2.8 according to Ted.
http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-76419.html
best regards
simon jessurun
amsterdam

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