At 11:22 23.1.2001 -0600, you wrote:
>At 04:51 PM 1/23/01 -0000, you wrote:
>>Somebody once told me (I read?) that a useful rule of thumb to avoid
>camera-shake was to use a shutter speed greater than the focal length. My
>Digital Ixus has a focal length range of 5.4mm-10.8mm and I can get shake.
>Was the original advice true because of some fortunate relationship between
>the size of the negative and the focal length?
>
>That was a minimum for 35mm slr. Not sure how digital will apply as you
>don't pick a shutter speed do you?
>Also, the guideline was a guideline for when you physically try to not shake
>the camera, it wasn't a garuntee. With digital, or new camera owners in
>general, they start moving the camera away from their face after they feel
>the clicked the shutter, or you see them use their wrist more than just
>their finger to fire the shutter!
Also the Ixus is such a lightweight and small camera (sized as credit card,
ain't it?) that it has almost none inertia. Even a slight movemenet
translates to the camera. The massiver the camera the better in that regard
(but with too heavy rigs, your ankles start to ache, and tremble even if
you exercise regulary (I once had to photograph somebody using a big
"potatatosmasher" flash, 500mm 1.5kg lens and K2DMD - not very handholdable ;)
But the IXUS is really too small to be easily handholdable. try to release
breath, hold, shoot. Or some other technique.
Fr.
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