Here's Aaron's take on handheld MLU with a 6x7: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 21, 2005 9:07 PM Subject: Re: Possibility of Medium Format enablement To: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected]
On Nov 21, 2005, at 4:55 PM, frank theriault wrote: > On 11/21/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How would you use MLU without a tripod? >> > > Aaron Reynolds claimed to be able to do it - did it all the time (so > he said). > > But he was the Senior Brother of the Brotherhood... <LOL> > > Aaron? Can you respond? <g> But of course! Obviously I'm not hand-holding and using MLU for really long shutter speeds, but I found that it was quite helpful to use MLU when shooting at 1/30 hand-held. Here's what I do: Frame the shot in the viewfinder. Breathe in. Flip the MLU switch with my middle finger on my right hand. Gently squeeze the shutter button with my trigger finger. Those two are together, sort of a gentle up-down motion. Breathe out. There are always doubters out there (in fact, I still encounter people who tell me that they read on the internet that you can't hand-hold a Pentax 67 and wonder why I'm so stupid as to be shooting with one hand-held), so here's an image for you. It's about 90% of the frame, Ilford Delta 3200 developed in Agfa Studional. Pentax 67, SMCP 75mm f2.8 AL. Hand-held, 1/30 f4, available light, using the mirror lockup technique described above. Scanned at 4000 dpi on a Polaroid Sprintscan 120. Link leads to a smaller version of the image. Click on that to see it at full size and judge sharpness for yourself. http://aaronreynolds.ca/gallery/MLU-demo/bench_giant I'm happy to answer further questions along these lines, and also to sing the praises of the truly spectacular 75mm f2.8 and generally enable those who need enablement, just CC your questions/responses to me since I'm not subscribed to the list. -Aaron p.s. Frank, I'm cc'ing this to the list, but it may bounce because I'm not subscribed -- can you forward it on for me if it does? Thanks. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
