Here you go being serious after this thread took a hard left into the field.
At 11:47 PM 7/17/2001 -0400, Dmitry wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Why everybody talks about "to tripod or not to tripod", but nobody mentioned
>monopod???
>Seems like a good alternative even in street shooting...
>
>Thanks.
>----------------
>Dmitry Gromov
>New Jersey
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "petit miam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:34 PM
>Subject: Why I won't be using a tripod unless I really need it.
>
>
> > I give up. We will just have to agree to disagree on
> > this one. It is obvious your ideas are fixed on this
> > one, whereas I can agree that sometimes (occasionally)
> > you may actually need a tripod, and will continue to
> > use one only when I need one. Also I have taken quite
> > a lot of photos where there wasn't room and/or time to
> > set up a tripod.
> >
> > I am sure I would know you if I saw you. You would be
> > the one with the tripod super-glued to your camera,
> > right? And perhaps the 500mm lens glued on as well. I
> > bet you never even leave your ideally set-up studio.
> > Well, in the outside world, most things aren't ideally
> > set-up for a tripod. I prefer to leave the flowers in
> > the wild, sometimes blowing in the wind, so no chance
> > of a 2-hour exposure on f6 film.
> >
> > Also 1) I don't take snapshots, 2) I don't smoke
> > anything, and never have.
> >
> > Jody.
> >
> > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 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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