> Someone once showed me an example of the effect of mirror
> slap/shutter shake
> that really stuck in my mind. He mounted the camera normally
> onto his tripod
> and put a glass of water on top, resting on the flash shoe.
> When the system
> fired off a frame you could clearly see the ripples of water
> in the glass.
> Made a believer out of me.
Reminds me of the story I heard about the Rolls Royce engineers - They would
stand a penny (a UK coin about 3cm in diameter) on edge on a running engine
to demonstrate how little vibration was present.
Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6152/
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