Now, be nice....... the framed 3x5 titled "sunflower at high-noon with
400asa" looks sharp as a tack!
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Why I won't be buying an MZ-S, and other ramblings with a rant
at the very
> Jody writes:So stuff it in your pipe and smoke it.
> Jody you've been smoking something if you think you can get critically
sharp
> photos (especially flowers) without using a tripod. You're dreaming pal.
> Either that, or you really have never seen critically sharp photos. You
can
> take SNAPSHOTS of flowers hand held, maybe that's what you are talking
about.
> You might even get reasonably sharp photos using 400 speed film in bright
> sunlight, but they won't look good. If that's what you like, then go for
it.
> I myself like critically sharp photographs taken on slow speed highly
> saturated film. You can only do that with a tripod, pal. Don't kid
yourself.
> Studies have shown again and again that a tripod makes all the difference
in
> the world.
>
> In a message dated 7/17/01 12:18:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Why I won't be buying an MZ-S, and other ramblings with a rant at the
> very
>
> Bollocks. I do most of my pics hand-held and very
> few are fuzzy. When they are, I usually thought at the
> time I should be using a tripod, but didn't have it
> with me because it is rather ungainly. Actually a vast
> proportion of shots where I thought I should use a
> tripod came out completely non-fuzzy.
> Try bending a tripod down to get a flower picture,
> which you are shooting at 1/500th anyway. Try telling
> me that photo needs a tripod. 90% of the time I shoot
> at at least 1/125th. I have been told you can
> generally handhold down to 1/60th, and I have had many
> sucesses below this. So stuff it in your pipe and
> smoke it.
>
> Jody.
> >>
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