Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/26

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Subject: camera shake was: Re: [Leica] a serious question
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri Sep 26 07:46:50 2008
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The shorter Nikon VR lenses I own are slowish zooms, so I dont know. I can
definitely hold a Leica M3 at slower speeds wide open...VR is sensational on
the 70-200 f2.8 and the 200-400 f4 lenses, though, and works a dream.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>wrote:

>
> Tina posited her M8 works better than her 5d, Jayanand mused:
>
> > The Canon SLRs will exhibit more shake than the M8
> >will. I shoot a lot of wildlife, and for that the M8 is useless.
>
> I ask -- Is this still true in the days of VR lenses? Does the M8 let you
> shoot at a lower shutter speed than a Canikon with an image stabilization
> lens?
>
> I dunno, I'm asking. I haven't seen any tests.
>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) (camera shake was: Re: [Leica] a serious question)