Umm. Why is it that you continue to be plagued by camera motion now
that you have been the master of shooting between heartbeats for many
years? :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/9/2011 2:33 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> The live view magnifier on the 60D is starting to convince me that a lot of
>> softness that I've put down to other factors
>> over the years has been less than perfect focus.
>
> Exactimundo! The two killers for me is camera/subject motion and focus
> imperfections. The problem for me is that focus imperfections are
> addressable by closing the lens down. camera/subject motion is
> addressably by opening the lens up.
>
> I don't believe that emperical evidence supports the claim that
> "...any handheld camera used at an exposure of longer than 1/1000 s
> isn't going to resolve mroe than about 6 Mpix in any case, reagardless
> of the lens or sensor used." First of all, the generalization is so
> great that it fails when considering wide-angle lenses and secondly,
> it makes an assumption as to a miminum amount of continous motion that
> doesn't take into account the oscillating motion of the photographer's
> hands which has a moment of stopped motion twice per cycle. Many years
> ago I learned the technique of shooting between heartbeats as I
> recognized that my hands moved during the "pulse". More problematic
> for me is the nature of my shake--it's rotational--not just lateral.
>
> One thing I have to keep relearning over and over again is my own
> positional alteration post focusing. I have this tendency to lean
> forward a slight bit after I've got focus.
>
> AG (blurred lines) Schnozz
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