On 12 May 2004 at 17:26, Ken Durling wrote:
> At 05:16 PM 5/12/2004, you wrote:
> >Seriously, for some reason with short lenses, I
> >have a hard time holding the camera still without a pod. I can shoot
> >at lower speeds with my 100-400 IS than with the 50.
>
>
> Not too hard to understand - weight is a motion dampening factor.
I'd say that size/length is even more important (ideal weight
distribution being most weight on both ends).
Sometimes an extended monopod is just as effective hovering above the
ground than it is on solid ground (or even horizontal, for portrait-
mode, without a tilt-head; monopod on the left, folded in your left
elbow).
Works nicely on ships too....:))
(with nasty rumbling diesels, that make the entire deck
resonate....;))
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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