Mike, Very interesting point. When I first got my 67II, I always put it on a tripod. When doing studio and location portraits, I found that the tripod was too slow to work with to capture natural poses and expressions. There was always that last minute fiddling with the tripod before the shot that ended up missing the moment. For portraits I usually don't use a tripod now unless it is a larger group where corner framing becomes very important. My images have improved in "content" even though technically they may "suffer" slightly by not using the tripod.
Bruce Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 7:08:42 AM, you wrote: >> my own personal opinion, Bruce (and it's just between the two of us), having >> shot a few miles of MF and a few more miles of 35mm, is that a good photo will >> overcome its format. MJ> Well said, Doug. MJ> I might add to that a trivial additional observation, which is that a good MJ> photo will also overcome its maker's prejudices about what constitutes "good MJ> image quality." That is, a lot of photographers are worried and preoccupied MJ> by the question of "good image quality," and they allow those considerations MJ> to lead them into a number of practices that aren't necessarily helpful. For MJ> instance, they may insist on using bigger formats than necessary; they may MJ> use tripods when not needed, or insist on stopping down too much, or use too MJ> slow a film. And yet, some of their photographs sometimes succeed anyway. MJ> <gg> MJ> --Mike
