I really will have to have a try of one of the latest Olympus digital
bodies... that in-body image stabilisation is very alluring. Not sure
we've saved up enough to justify me going Oly digital with the
investment my wife has in Canon glass but using the old manual lenses
on an image-stabilised body at lower ISO does sound very nice, as you
describe.
Brent
On 04/10/2008, at 3:42 PM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>
> I'll tell you how I deal with high ISO needs: image stabilization.
>
> The Olympus IS is so good (chorus: "How good is it?") that I think
> nothing of shooting as much as five stops below the "rule of thumb."
> It is so good that I've re-discovered the 500/8 Reflex lens -- hand-
> held. It is so good, that I rarely even look at the shutter speed in
> moderately-low light situations any more -- I just shoot.
>
> Of course, IS will not stop subject motion, nor does it free you from
> the tripod for extremely long exposures. But it has changed my
> shooting more than any other innovation since the OM-2 introduced me
> to aperture priority automatic exposure.
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