True enough. It's really a rule for beginners. For critical sharpness, one frequently needs a much faster shutter speed or, as you said, a tripod. Yet, for some applications, slower speeds are possible, even without any image stabilization capability. Paul On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> I never really listened to the rule. I have my own: > > - I shoot at whatever I have to to obtain a shot with any camera and > lens. With a digital camera, I can check to see if it is sufficiently > short an exposure to get what I want. If it isn't, I either give up > or try again. > > - For any real approach to critical sharpness, I use a tripod. > > Godfrey > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> It's long been considered that for good results one should only >> shoot hand >> held at the reciprocal of the focal length, so for a 200 mm lens the >> slowest hand held shutter speed would be 1/200 second. Considering >> the >> crop/magnification factor of the Pentax DSLR's, a 200mm lens = a >> 300mm lens >> (Let's not get into the argument about this, please). So, would one >> ideally shoot at 1/300 second hand held? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
