Mirror vibration/hand shake

[Gary J Toop <gtoop@uoguelph.ca>]

	Hey fellow LUGers:

	I am curious to know whether other Leica users have found a 
significant difference between shooting hand-held with their Ms and 
with their Rs at speeds in the 1/8 sec - 1/60 second range (and higher 
with longer lenses)?  I generally find that my M-3 produces much sharper 
images at these speeds than my Contax 159, and I tend to attribute the 
difference to mirror vibration more than anything else - and the Contaxes 
as supposed to have good mirror damping!  Is there any way of 
compensating for mirror vibration - other than by avoiding it with a 
tripod and mirror pre-release or by using my M-3?  Could there be another 
problem that I am overlooking?

	I would be curious to hear about the experiences of others.

Gary Toop