On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:
> There was an extensive test in (I believe) a 1980's era Modern Photography of
> hand holding cameras. The compared the results of shooting resolution targets
> hand held at various shutter speeds and on a tripod. From that day forward I
> have used a tripod where ever and when ever possible. It took 1/250 with a
> 50mm lens to narrow the difference and, if I recall, 1/500th to equal.
People forget that the legendary street photographers (Winogrand,
Meyerowitz, Friendlander, Papageorge, etc.) were shooting at 1/1000th
of a second handheld (and at small apertures, pushing their Tri-X to
1200-1600 EI) with their 28-35-50mm lenses.
*= Doris Fang =*
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