On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Windrim, Brian wrote:
> ...or possibly a combination of the two? After I finished being a
> student I did some part-time stage/theatrical photography.
[snip]
> was able to compensate to a degree for the
> zoom's lack of speed by using a (fairly) lightweight tripod as a
> somewhat uncomfortable shoulder-brace. In this way I was able to use
> quite slow shutter speeds while retaining freedom of movement. I seem
> to recall that pictures might sometimes be blurred by subject
> motion, but seldom by camera shake.
I've had similarly good results using a monopod with a ball & socket
head. You can tuck the monopod under a shoulder to steady the camera, or
put the other end on the ground and use your own two legs to make a
wobbly-but-well-damped tripod.
As someone else pointed out, the additional mass (and moment of inertia)
helps too.
As this is my first post to this list, perhaps I should introduce
myself.
My name is Ian Nichols and I'm in Bristol, England. I've had an OM2 sp
for about 18 months now and I like it a lot. I bought it in the first
place for the spot metering, which has, as I expected, turned out to be
a boon for photographing musicians playing live under artificial light.
That tells you what my usual subject is, too.
One day soon I'll put up a web site with some of the better results on
it.
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