Camera shake can (usually) be identified by examining a point light source in your photograph under a loupe. Instead of being a point as it should be, it will show a movement "track". A point light source can be anything from a street light far away to the glint of the sun off a shiny surface like a car or wave. In the absence of a point light source in the picture, a difference in sharpness from edges depending on their orientation also indicates shake.
Bracing myself with my left elbow in, hand under the lens barrel, inhaling deeply, letting about 1/2 the air out of my lungs, holding and shooting between heart beats makes my photos better. A tripod makes my photos even better yet. Regards, Bob.... -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!" - Benjamin Franklin From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In a message dated 12/20/2002 12:28:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Coming from a slightly different perspective, I find blur from camera > > shake to be far more disturbing than blur from an unsharp lens. The > > camera shake blurring tends to be of greater magnitude in > > one axis. > > Hmmm, reading this thread, I realized I am not totally positive what the blur from camera shake looks like. Do you mean the blur from a bad lens might just be around the edges or something? But the blur from camera shake tends to go in one direction all across the picture? > > Do you have any examples? And I mean examples where it isn't really, really obvious (where everything is really blurred)? > > Just curious. I haven't been able to tell with most of my photos that I see camera shake blur, though just about everything I've shot so far has been handheld.
