I never really listened to the rule. I have my own: - I shoot at whatever I have to to obtain a shot with any camera and lens. With a digital camera, I can check to see if it is sufficiently short an exposure to get what I want. If it isn't, I either give up or try again.
- For any real approach to critical sharpness, I use a tripod. Godfrey On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > It's long been considered that for good results one should only > shoot hand > held at the reciprocal of the focal length, so for a 200 mm lens the > slowest hand held shutter speed would be 1/200 second. Considering > the > crop/magnification factor of the Pentax DSLR's, a 200mm lens = a > 300mm lens > (Let's not get into the argument about this, please). So, would one > ideally shoot at 1/300 second hand held? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
