Hi!
Why everybody talks about "to tripod or not to tripod", but nobody mentioned
monopod???
Seems like a good alternative even in street shooting...
Thanks.
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Dmitry Gromov
New Jersey
----- Original Message -----
From: "petit miam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:34 PM
Subject: Why I won't be using a tripod unless I really need it.
> I give up. We will just have to agree to disagree on
> this one. It is obvious your ideas are fixed on this
> one, whereas I can agree that sometimes (occasionally)
> you may actually need a tripod, and will continue to
> use one only when I need one. Also I have taken quite
> a lot of photos where there wasn't room and/or time to
> set up a tripod.
>
> I am sure I would know you if I saw you. You would be
> the one with the tripod super-glued to your camera,
> right? And perhaps the 500mm lens glued on as well. I
> bet you never even leave your ideally set-up studio.
> Well, in the outside world, most things aren't ideally
> set-up for a tripod. I prefer to leave the flowers in
> the wild, sometimes blowing in the wind, so no chance
> of a 2-hour exposure on f6 film.
>
> Also 1) I don't take snapshots, 2) I don't smoke
> anything, and never have.
>
> Jody.
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Jody writes:So stuff it in your pipe and smoke it.
> > Jody you've been smoking something if you think you
> > can get critically sharp
> > photos (especially flowers) without using a tripod.
> > You're dreaming pal.
> > Either that, or you really have never seen
> > critically sharp photos. You can
> > take SNAPSHOTS of flowers hand held, maybe that's
> > what you are talking about.
> > You might even get reasonably sharp photos using 400
> > speed film in bright
> > sunlight, but they won't look good. If that's what
> > you like, then go for it.
> > I myself like critically sharp photographs taken on
> > slow speed highly
> > saturated film. You can only do that with a tripod,
> > pal. Don't kid yourself.
> > Studies have shown again and again that a tripod
> > makes all the difference in
> > the world.
> >
> > In a message dated 7/17/01 12:18:00 AM Pacific
> > Daylight Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << Why I won't be buying an MZ-S, and other
> > ramblings with a rant at the
> > very
> >
> > Bollocks. I do most of my pics hand-held and very
> > few are fuzzy. When they are, I usually thought at
> > the
> > time I should be using a tripod, but didn't have it
> > with me because it is rather ungainly. Actually a
> > vast
> > proportion of shots where I thought I should use a
> > tripod came out completely non-fuzzy.
> > Try bending a tripod down to get a flower
> > picture,
> > which you are shooting at 1/500th anyway. Try
> > telling
> > me that photo needs a tripod. 90% of the time I
> > shoot
> > at at least 1/125th. I have been told you can
> > generally handhold down to 1/60th, and I have had
> > many
> > sucesses below this. So stuff it in your pipe and
> > smoke it.
> >
> > Jody.
>
>
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