On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:34:16PM -0400, Doug Franklin scripsit: > Joseph McAllister wrote: >> Gonna cost me $300 to go the cheap way for a horizontal hang, or $700 >> for the Wimberly. Gonna go the cheap way, fer sure. > > The way I figure it, the gimbal head is going to cost more than (about > twice as much as) I paid for the lens, so I work on my hand holding. > :-)
I've been doing that. What I've been finding is that no amount of careful propping on terrain, breath control, etc. really helps with being perfectly still for *range*; left to right and up and down motions are much easier to control than front-to-back motion, and of course it's the slight front-to-back motion that throws off the focus. I get maybe one in five right on hand-holding 800 or 500 mm mirror lenses; I can't imagine a heavier lens makes this easier. Autofocus probably would. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
