Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, It's nice to have a willing model when you are house-bound. She's a real doll. Hope both of you whip the bug soon. Jim Nichols > [Original Message] > From: animal <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: 11/5/2004 8:48:44 PM > Subject: [Leica] Masochism a 180mm and a gyroscope > > My youngest and myself have been more or less floored this week with some sort of lung eating bug. > I made her a little tent to watch 30,s cartoons from and made myself a contraption i wouldn,t want to take out on the street. > It was prompted a bit by the recent discussions on low shutter speeds. > What i did was to put a small Kenyon gyroscopic stabiliser underneath my 180 R lens and used that with a 1.4 extender. > Luckily i have large hands so could still just move the focusing ring with a finger. > Our sickness makes us both a bit slow so that helped. > To my suprise it worked to about 1/4 second or so .These three are at 1/6 th 1/4 and 1/2 second. > All with an indicated aperture of 3.4 which with the 1.4 extender should really be 2.8 according to Ted. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-76419.html > best regards > simon jessurun > amsterdam > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information