I handhold my 300/4 at 1/125 with good success. I would imagine that I could handhold the 400 at 1/250. Much as one can handhold a 200mm lens on a 35mm camera at 1/250. I also think that my 300/4 vibrates less when handheld than it does on a flimsy tripod. There's a certain amount of damping in the hands. On a good tripod, like my Bogen 3036 with 3047 head, it seems to be rock solid at any shutter speed. Paul
Aaron Reynolds wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 07:12 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > The large numbers of pro shooters who use the 6x7, in many cases > > handheld, simply belies the shutter vibration nonsense. > > What I am seeing on the Luminous Landscape site is a shutter vibration > problem with long lenses. How people manage to take this information > and apply it to much shorter lenses is beyond me. > > My longest lens is the 105mm f2.4. I have used the 200mm f4 on a couple > of occasions. I've only had issues with lack of sharpness at 1/30 sec > when hand-holding, and virtually never when using MLU. Looking at my > negs and transparencies and the prints made from them, I'd say that I > have far more trouble with inaccurate focus than with camera shake, as > the 20x24 of my brother on the beach that's up on the wall at my store > will attest (the sand in front of him is sharp as a tack, but if you get > really close to the print you can see that he's a little tiny bit soft, > but it's unnoticeable at 11x14). It was shot 1/125 f8 hand-held. > > People who say you can't hand-hold a Pentax 67 either can't hand hold a > 35mm either, or have never used one. > > -Aaron > - > 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 .
