Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/26

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:22:59 -0500
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You're forgetting to include the distance from the subject.
If you're talking about using the lens at landscape distances
(near infinity focus);
then you're mostly correct about 1/45th second for a 45mm.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
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On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> Seems to me a 45mm lens can be held at 1/45 more or less depending  
> (as you
> say) on one's facial bone structure and hand/wrist strength;  
> regardless of
> its crop factor inside the camera. That it becomes 1/90 because of the
> sensor size makes absolutely no sense to me at all (especially in  
> so far as,
> as discussed earlier, it doesn't look like a 90mm image anyway) but  
> I'll
> take your word and go pursue an understanding of it elsewhere.



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