Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!rsg From: rsg@cbscc.UUCP (Bob Garmise) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Camera vibration. Message-ID: <4957@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 10:04:45 EST Article-I.D.: cbscc.4957 Posted: Mon Mar 11 10:04:45 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 09:58:47 EST References: <1948@sdcc6.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 17 I, too, am a stickler for sharp pictures. I've owned an Olympus OM-1 and now an OM-2N. Both are ok, but I guess I'm a perfectionist. But are the almost perfect, but not quite perfect, pictures due to camera shake or owner shake? Only my developer knows for sure. It seems to me that one answer to resolving this problem is (ta-da) mirror lock-up. Now, I know this doesn't work most of the time, but it will work for tripod pictures, and for scenes that tend not to move too much (e.g. mountains, lakes, sky). I admit that I don't use the feature (does Olympus have it? I can't rightly say right off hand.) because of my inability to see through the viewfinder at the time I'm taking the picture. BTW, it suddenly occurs to me that perhaps the problem is tiny movement as the picture is being taken. Have you tried using a cable release? Try it first with your tripod pictures, and then with your hand-held ones. Maybe, just maybe, your finger is depressing more than just the shutter release button. This would show up more in slower (less than 1/30th second) pictures, and in streaked lights (rather than pinpoints) in night photos. ...bob garmise...at&t bell labs, columbus...