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From: rsg@cbscc.UUCP (Bob Garmise)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Camera vibration.
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 10:04:45 EST
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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...