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Subject: Re: [OM] Eclipse photo.
From: Omer Nezih GEREK <gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:11:30 +0200 (MET DST)
Slightly lean on a wall by the side, compose, take your sight away from 
the finder, instead look *at* the camera while shooting, do not breathe... 
That's what I did. This one was one of the two relatively sharp pictures 
among four.

Furthermore, I think 1/60 is not so slow. It is the maximum real speed of 
the camera where you obtain a full curtain opening, without a sliding 
curtain stripe. Now, the question is, why do they claim that, say, 1/500 
would be sharp for a 500mm? The sweep of the opening will be the same as 
with 1/60, and a hand shake will, this time, produce an unusual smear.

The "O" with double dots is pronounced as the wowel part of "er" in English. 
Mostly spelled as "oe" in ASCII German, which is pronounced the same. It 
exists in the surname of the German prime minister Gerhardt Schroeder, or 
the famous Goethe.

I could finish the PhD so late because I had to work in different places 
for different projects in between. I confess that it was not a smart move.

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Acer Victoria wrote:

> How the heck did you manage to get a sharp photo handholding a 500mm lens
> at 1/60sec?!?!??!?!?!? Speak up, man. What secret potion are you hiding
> from us? Come on, we won't hurt you....
> 
> /Acer Victoria

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Omer Nezih Gerek,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS)
CH-1015 Ecublens
Lausanne, Switzerland
http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~gerek
mailto:gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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