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Any suggestions on keeping camera steady without a tripod?
Hello all,
When it comes to photography, I'm am below a rank amateur but keep practicing and am learning to use Photoshop quite well ! My problem is my inability to keep the camera steady. I have the Rebel 300D and love the results but there is the "user operator" error that can't be solved by taking back the user! So any suggestions on how to keep steady when taking photos, especially in low light situations? I have ordered the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM and a friend said he'd lend me his EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM so I hope that the IS might help. Thanks for your help Paula Sims |
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Any suggestions on keeping camera steady without a tripod?
One little trick I have learned is, if I'm using the lcd rather than the
viewfinder, have a neck strap on the camera and hold the camera out in front of your face till the neck strap is pulled tight against the back of your neck. That helps me a lot with my kind of shakey hands. Good luck, Ed wrote in message .net... Hello all, When it comes to photography, I'm am below a rank amateur but keep practicing and am learning to use Photoshop quite well ! My problem is my inability to keep the camera steady. I have the Rebel 300D and love the results but there is the "user operator" error that can't be solved by taking back the user! So any suggestions on how to keep steady when taking photos, especially in low light situations? I have ordered the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM and a friend said he'd lend me his EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM so I hope that the IS might help. Thanks for your help Paula Sims |
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Any suggestions on keeping camera steady without a tripod?
"Alfred Molon" wrote in message
... wrote: Hello all, When it comes to photography, I'm am below a rank amateur but keep practicing and am learning to use Photoshop quite well ! My problem is my inability to keep the camera steady. I have the Rebel 300D and love the results but there is the "user operator" error that can't be solved by taking back the user! So any suggestions on how to keep steady when taking photos, especially in low light situations? I have ordered the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM and a friend said he'd lend me his EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM so I hope that the IS might help. F3.5-5.6 is a very "dark" zoom lens. It may be cheaper than a brighter one, but it certainly doesn't help you in low light. See if you can find a zoom lens with an aperture larger than F3 at the tele end. -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Olympus_405080/ Olympus 5050 resource - http://www.molon.de/5050.html Olympus 5060 resource - http://www.molon.de/5060.html Olympus 8080 resource - http://www.molon.de/8080.html You've never used a lens with IS, have you? True, it won't help if you are photographing moving objects, but it gives you 2-3 useable stops if what you're shooting has the consideration to hold still... -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com |
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Any suggestions on keeping camera steady without a tripod?
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Hello all, When it comes to photography, I'm am below a rank amateur but keep practicing and am learning to use Photoshop quite well ! My problem is my inability to keep the camera steady. I have the Rebel 300D and love the results but there is the "user operator" error that can't be solved by taking back the user! So any suggestions on how to keep steady when taking photos, especially in low light situations? I have ordered the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM and a friend said he'd lend me his EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM so I hope that the IS might help. Thanks for your help Paula Sims Use a monopod or lean against something solid. I've gotten some good results leaning against light poles or bracing myself against a fence or wall. If there are no structures to brace against, then the only other suggestion would be taking many exposures of static subjects whenever possible in the hopes of getting a least one sharp image from the bunch. I've never been able to assess the sharpness of a photo on the diminutive 1.8" LCD screen used on most digicams. Try digging your elbows into your sides tightly and slowly exhale while pressing the shutter button. Practice, practice, practice. BTW, after 2 cervical fusions I sometimes am unable to quell a tremor in my right hand, making picture taking very iffy. Most of the time it's not so bad that it interferes with picture taking. Good luck! dave |
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Any suggestions on keeping camera steady without a tripod?
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.net... Hello all, When it comes to photography, I'm am below a rank amateur but keep practicing and am learning to use Photoshop quite well ! My problem is my inability to keep the camera steady. I have the Rebel 300D and love the results but there is the "user operator" error that can't be solved by taking back the user! So any suggestions on how to keep steady when taking photos, especially in low light situations? I have ordered the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM and a friend said he'd lend me his EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM so I hope that the IS might help. Thanks for your help Paula Sims I use a monopod, with a swivel ball head and a quick release head (I can pop it off the monopod with a flick of the lock rather than screwing it on and off). Here's a picture from the zoo last weekend, with a Canon 75-300mm IS lens; 400 ISO so you can see a bit of noise (and I have also compressed this picture for the web). I would normally sharpen this a bit, and play with the levels, but this pic is unretouched. Obviously, the ball head came into play as I had to swivel up to get Ms. Giraffe. I find when I have a long lens hanging off the camera, it gets heavy, and it's much easier to lug around when it's attached to the monopod, always with the camera strap loosely around my neck. http://168.144.202.123/images/w_giraffe.jpg -- wendeebee @sympatico ..ca |
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Any suggestions on keeping camera steady without a tripod?
Ed wrote:
One little trick I have learned is, if I'm using the lcd rather than the viewfinder, have a neck strap on the camera and hold the camera out in front of your face till the neck strap is pulled tight against the back of your neck. That helps me a lot with my kind of shakey hands. Good luck, Ed wrote in message .net... And if possible, avoid using the LCD this way. Just holding the camera firmly against the head adds about a 10 lb. mass and its inertia to the system, providing a LOT of steadiness. |
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