Well, I actually known of one (yogic?) who could stop his heart beating when pressing the button. John Saldanha ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Goldstein To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 3:43 PM Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei SL66 first results Another main cause of camera shack when hand holding is the blood surging through your arteries every time your heart beats. I knew shooters who were so well trained that they were aware of their slow pulses (in the 40s!) and could shoot between beats... Eric Goldstein -- On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:16 AM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 2010/6/21 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>: >...I adopted one of the "Basic waist level hold" described in > pages 70 and 71..." I add that one of the main causes for camera shake at critical shutter speeds shooting handheld is body sway, I always try to lean my body against something for these shots, it was a door frame for the photograph commented previously. I took more photographs at 1/30 f4 with the same roll, I leaned one of my elbows against a rail for these shots, they look sharp through the loupe and lightbox but I did not scan them yet. Carlos --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list