[Leica] A new M from Canon

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Thanks and a damn shame and I was wrong then. When they can get
stabilization in macro photography will be be a huge help.  I'm sure they
can some day. macro photography as many of us know is not just snap shots
down close it is hugely difficult on a number of unexpected levels if you
haven't researched it before you try it.. You need much faster shutter
speeds then at normal lengths and you need also to stop down a lot more.
What we do have now is hugely faster shutter speeds which make macro much
more doable than before.
VR would be a great boom.
Before that macro is darned hard to do without flash. Normally on a cord
held up or to the side. Tripods don't help as the things like branches are
moving in the slight breeze. And a bug is moving of course. Also there is a
thing where off camera flash somehow does not look like off camera flash in
macro work.
But by the way VR is not going to help with bugs.
A flash fired at a few feet away goes off very fast making for an effective
shutter speed of many times faster than any shutter. Exactly what you need.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:45:08 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] A new M from Canon
> 
> I have this lens and like it. The VR is fairly ineffective at macro
> magnifications, since the shake is way more than can be realistically
> compensated by a moving set of elements.
> The fact that the VR does not work well for macro is pointed out in the 
> lens'
> instructions supplied by Nikon with the lens (which I would not normally
> read).
> OTOH as a stabilised normal lens it works brilliantly.
> FD
> 
> 
> On 25 Jul, 2012, at 20:26, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> The 105 macro which I have on my camera right now having been sent it
>> yesterday is now VR  in the past year which has I've been told and I
>> believe; revolutionized it's use in the macro world in which I'm so fond.
> 
> 
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