Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Checking a tripod for resonance
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 22:59:18

At 19:18 03/08/98 -0700, you wrote:
>...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

Very interesting. For the purpose of elimination, could you tell us which
tripod and head this was? 

Joe Berenbaum