On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:25:29PM -0400, Henry Posner wrote: >There MUST be other possibilities. I've used lenses that long with no >mirror lock-up on tripods and gotten razor-sharp images. Are you attaching >the lens+body to the tripod via the lens' tripod collar or the camera >tripod thread? Are you extending the tripod's center column - this is >ALWAYS a compromise as use of the center column really compromises most >tripods. Are you sure the blur you're seeing is motion and not a focus >issue? Are you evaluating the original film - negs/slides or prints?
The mounting question I answered already (but not yet if you are reading your mail from oldest to newest). I'm using the mount on the tripod, not the camera. I'm pretty sure that gigantic lens would tear my little plastic camera body in half. The center column is a no. I'd hate to tip my tripod over with my expensive lens on it. I use it all the time on a wide lens to bring the camera up higher, but not for a heavy telephoto. I've heard that for really sharp images I should not even extend any of the tripod legs, but for the shot I was making I needed all the sections extended to get up over the crotch of the tree. I'm pretty sure its not a focus issue since I locked everything down and then just cycled through the apertures in Av mode to compare the shots. The 300D is the Digital Rebel, so there is no film. :) The things I've read on the internet, and the emails I've gotten from this question lead me to believe that my first action should be to replace the head. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); /* http://www.nmt.edu/~schlake/ */ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
