Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From Ted Grant: > Thanks Alan I needed someone else to say it before I did. Boy I'm glad > there is someone else who thinks all this "vibration stuff is <<< > <<<" a little too anal>>>> > > I guess somewhere in the world this is a required excercise, but for the > life of me I can't imagine when it matters diddly squat to someone using a > Leica, RF or SLR. Actually, Ted, I wish I had done the water test last fall before taking my 280/4.5 Telyt on an SL up to document a monastery near Kodiak, Alaska. Almost all of the daylight shots in shade where I was trying to get some dof turned out blurred from resonant camera shake on a tripod. Most of the shots were in the 1/4 to 1/30 second range. As it turned out therefore, my 280 pictures weren't worth "diddly squat". All tripod photos with the M6 were just fine, and some 280 handheld ones were OK, too, shot at 1/500. Fortunately, there were plenty of good shots to take to the St Paisius Russian Orthodox Abbey near Santa Rosa, Calif last month and put on a slide program, which was well received and a lot of fun. Gary Todoroff