You should be able to handhold it at 1/25. Many of the old timers had no problem with 1/10 second. Your 127 is the equivalent of a 28mm on a 35. Then your enlargements are only 2x (for an 8 x10) instead of 8x. It make a major difference.
The rules of thumb they came up with for 35mm photography don;t apply to Speed Graphics. They are above all that <g>. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary J Sibio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:48 PM Subject: Re: Hand-holding a 67 > At 06:18 AM 3/5/02 -0500, you wrote: > >I've hand held my 4x5 Speed Graphic at 1/125 with good results. It has a > >127mm lens. Press photographers commonly did the same in the fifties. > > > These cameras were designed to be able to be handheld. My point was that > there are some that are not. > > > > Gary J. Sibio > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
