Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry Richard, but IS will do absolutely nothing to help you with subjects who are moving, jumping, leaping and flying. It will help when the subjects are relatively stationary but allowing you to handhold at speeds 2-3 stops slower than otherwise and get an acceptable image. But you are talking about subject movement, for which IS does nothing. Nathan On 15-apr-2008, at 23:30, Richard Man wrote: > ?! Believe me, the Shidara people are moving, jumping, leaping, and > flying. Without the IS, there's no way I can shoot the 35-100 at > 1/20th of a second, at F2, at ISO1000. IS compensates the camera's > movement. You can set it to do IS for horizontal only for panning > shots if that's what you want. > > At 02:09 PM 4/15/2008, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> Which is why I rarely use IS, since most of my targets are indeed >> moving. I was in a bar with my wife and son tonight, and was shooting >> at ISO 800 with the 1.4 25mm PanaLeica. No IS, but with that ISO and >> lens combination I was getting shutter speeds of 1/30 or 1/60, which >> is fine. >> >> Nathan > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman nathan@nathanfoto.com General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog Book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/128276