[rollei_list] Re: Tripod versus Handheld

  • From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:41:15 -0400

Hi Charlie -

I'm going to challenge the idea that the sharpest image is the same
thing as the "highest possible quality"...

Sometimes it is, sometimes it ain't. It all depends on the
requirements of the project and the desires of the creatives involved
with fulfilling it...


Eric Goldstein

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM,  <Newhouse230@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll take the minority opinion on this issue.
>
> Whether to use, or not to use a tripod ( with ANY camera) is, for me,
> determined by whether the highest possible quality is desired or whether the
> ability to move positions quickly, or remain somewhat inconspicuous, or
> travel 'light'  is MOST important.
>     Even the most minute shake or tremble has 'some' effect on sharpness.
> Whether a given degree or degradation of the image is acceptable depends on
> many variables including the final size of the print, whether it's for
> ''family history' or for publication.   (In a fine magazine?   a
> newspaper?)   and many other factors.   Is the subject a landscape that's
> dependent on resolving every fine detail....or a portrait of the family
> matriarch, for which a bit of softness may not be a bad thing?
>
>      If you can't get a sharp handheld shot at 1/10 second, then you really
> can't get one at 1/50 either....you're just diminishing the area of blur to
> what you consider an acceptable size.
>
>    Bottom line:   there is no one 'right' answer. Whether to use a tripod or
> not depends on many factors.
>
>
> regards to all.,
> Charlie Silverman
>
>
> =
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