Pushing the OIS - Post your slow handheld shots! Here're 2 G1 starters:

great shot so smooth the fur
G1 looking good
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John
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I have some 2 second hand held shots taken when I was younger and steadier with a TLR Rolleiflex. No OIS and no EXIF so I can't include them. The trick, which can be used with cameras with the swivel screen is to use the self-timer and to use the camera at waist level with the strap around your neck.
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Oll an gwella,
Jim



[FX07]
[LX1]

[FZ30] * IS/L B-300 * IS/L B-Macro * Minolta No. 0, No. 1 & No. 2 * Sunpak 383 * Benbo Trekker
[L1] * Olympus 25mm 2.8 *

I mostly took my pictures after work, I seldom carry another full size tripod.

Most of times, I could not have the time and place to set up a tripod. The OIS of Panny can really help.

These are 2 of the 3 continuous shots I took last year with a TZ3 after work. I only have a light fence as my body support. I had a heavy bag on my right shoulder while taking these pictures.

iso100 1/5s f3.3



Crop, the front and last 2 characters of car name plate blurred by PP.



iso100 1/4s f3.3



crop, the front and last 2 characters of car name plate blurred by PP.



I took these 3 continuous shots last year with a TZ3 after work, absolutely true hand held, no body or hand support. Also with a heavy bag on my right shoulder.

Absolutely impossible to set up a tripod in this situation. I only had about a minute to pull the camera from my back, turned it on, set bracket exposures (the light was tricky). Quickly took about 6 shots and left.

1/10s f4.2 iso100



1/13s f4.2 iso100



1/8s f4.2 iso100



If I have the chances to use a tripod, monopod, hand support, opened menu inside a dark restaurant, I will use them and try to use the lowest iso to get sharp and better IQ pictures. When no tripod, no body or hand supports. The OIS is the only means to help me to increase my keeper rate.

When I am using camera without OIS, such as my F30, I can also normally get sharp pictures at range around 1/6s to 1/9s (no body and hand supports), but then I must comply with all my camera holding and breath control skill learned during the film days and wish myself lucky to get at least one sharp pictures out of a 3 pictures burst.

1/5s, true hand held portrait camera position is a piece of cake for Panny with OIS.

but I do agree of using a tripod or any support instead of relying solely on OIS.

OIS is not only for extreme low light, when taking pictures on unstable platform, moving cars etc. the OIS helps eliminate some of the motion blurs on the camera side.

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Best Regards,

Danny

'Close enough is good enough, I just come here for fun'



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Having fun with the LX3. Here's a few:







On a handrail:



More here:
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Dez

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1/8 sec. FZ30.

You will not here in Moscow unless your willing to buy a $250 professional photographer's permit for many site you visit with a tripod. Forking out $250 for each site you visit just so you can use a tripod. I don't think so, I have better things to do with my money. You just can not always take a tripod with you and if your unwilling to take a hand held photo, then your missing a lot of opportunities. I have sold many of my mediocre hand held shots and had four magazine cover shots. I do not think anybody has made the claim that hand held shots are sharper than tripod shots, but I have not read every thread here. You just can not take a tripod and use it every where, its just not allowed or costs big bucks for permission to use it. You say, "Don't forget to have fun." Lugging around atripod just is not always fun, nor is it always needed.
JD

FrankieJ said:

I too love to challenge myself, seeing how long I can stare at the
sun is a favorite, but when I want/need the sharpest photograph, I
use a tripod. I mean, Duh!
Give me a SHARP photo over a medicre snapshot that's "not bad for
hand-held" anyday.
For those that would throw up the arguement that sometimes you don't
want to carry or don't happen to have a tripod... I personally carry
a tripod EVERY time I go out shooting because even though I like to
experiment, I know it is sharpness insurance to use a tripod vs. not.
No one can ever make the claim that any handheld shot is sharper than
one shot using a tripod.
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Don't forget to have fun.

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Great shots as always Danny, its been awhile since I've seen your work, glad to see your still kicking butt in photography with your great photos.
JD

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It looks like it might not classify the same as others posted here, but I could be wrong. Did you use flash on that one? I couldn't decipher the EXIF data from the photo.
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Just cruisin' ...



GeeOne, EffZeeEighteen, TeeZeeThree

You could make some case that your images might've been sharper or at lower ISO with a tripod, but if you can't have it, your photos prove that one can get useable photos that can be printed or otherwise shared, without the tripod. Good job.
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Just cruisin' ...



GeeOne, EffZeeEighteen, TeeZeeThree

Get your laughting gear round this cheers,

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Full EXIF Info
Date/Time 10-Aug-2007 09:32:34
Make Panasonic
Model DMC-FX01
Flash Used No
Focal Length 16.8 mm
Exposure Time 1/200 sec
Aperture f/11
ISO Equivalent 80
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Mode matrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program program (2)
Focus Distance

OK, did you use a tripod? It could be a Trans-Pond difference in how time is measured? Is it really 1/200 of a fortnight, and not 1/200 of a second? ;-)

Frankly, I'm always amazed at how people get poses of Dragonflies spreading their wings. I've only seen them in flight, occasionally perched on a distant leaf, but nowhere near the accommodating pose of your subject.
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Just cruisin' ...



GeeOne, EffZeeEighteen, TeeZeeThree

No no tripod i think for such a small camera, and the time i went to get it it would have gone. Just saw it, it was just staying put in the sun and did not mind me getting close. I guess some days in photography you get lucky, for me i was lucky and as to photograph them flying, you need more skill than luck.

Alan.
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Rocking Santa.

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Taken handheld by LX3.

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2.



3.



Oscar
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Nice to see great IS at work. Hopefully I'll get to try an LX3 one of these days. ;-)

Just curious, this one is at 2.5 seconds long ISO 80. Is this handheld?

DezM said:

Having fun with the LX3. Here's a few:

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1/8s - 200 ISO - dynamic B/W



1/13s - 800 ISO - iA



Barrie

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RoysLaw said:

Just curious, this one is at 2.5 seconds long ISO 80. Is this handheld?

DezM said:

Having fun with the LX3. Here's a few:

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Thanks and no. I supported the camera vertically against a telephone booth
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Dez

http://photos.dezmix.com

Hand held,

Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ18
Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 52.1 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: -33/100 EV



Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ18
Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 23.1 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: -33/100 EV



Had a play and after some PP and a drybrush filter in CS2 I now have this version hanging on my wall as a 30" by 20" canvas and I love it!: