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Scientists prove, its not the coffee that makes me jittery.

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kparsha said:
I mean some one bothered to actually conduct a test with lasers to prove that we make the camera jittery when we press its buttons (I mean shutter release).
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Anyone that's ever done planetary astrophotography with a dSLR knows this. Even with MLU, just the shutter movement can cause visible image blur.

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Lee Jay
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ljfinger said:
kparsha said:
I mean some one bothered to actually conduct a test with lasers to prove that we make the camera jittery when we press its buttons (I mean shutter release).
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Anyone that's ever done planetary astrophotography with a dSLR knows this. Even with MLU, just the shutter movement can cause visible image blur.
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I found cameratechnica's article enjoyable nonetheless.

Looks like redesigning the shutter mechanism by using something like Blackberry's trackpad would be a nice improvement for the "usual" range of speeds. No?
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just spam from gorillapod.

but it is based in fact.

the basics of camera handling stress the importance of not "punching" the shutter button.
It is even in the the camera's manual...
but who reads that?

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kparsha said:
I mean some one bothered to actually conduct a test with lasers to prove that we make the camera jittery when we press its buttons (I mean shutter release).

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/03/lasers-prove-you-cant-hold-a-camera-still-video/
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Take a laser pointer and attach it to your camera lens with tape or rubber bands. Now point the camera at a wall about 30 feet away and watch the red dot as you press the shutter release. I think you'll be surprised at how much the dot jumps.
 
MisterPootieCat said:
Take a laser pointer and attach it to your camera lens with tape or rubber bands. Now point the camera at a wall about 30 feet away and watch the red dot as you press the shutter release. I think you'll be surprised at how much the dot jumps.
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The people I was pointing it at jumped even more.
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Leonard Migliore
 
Who knew we'd use common hands to hold their toys ?
It's a pity that manufacturers seem to have lost the word, ergonomic.
The current trend to fat, tall, missing a left-side, designed by geek
not photographer, button collections isn't making the job any easier.

You pick up the occasional Minolta film SLR body in the hunt for glass
and the wide, low, light, clean design with room for ALL your fingers
really makes you wonder what went wrong.

Face it, photography has been hijacked by people who weren't
even born when it had already achieved maturity;
they think a learning curve for a tool is a good thing.

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it's hard enough as it is without making it more difficult.
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$4.95 including postage, hard to beat.
It's the Manfrotto bit underneath it that rankles !

Walk around for me, nowadays, is a large 80's
flash bracket/handle which looks a little daggy, but helps a lot.
Either that, or the monopod collapsed and set horizontally,
a little more butch, but with less leverage in the vertical plane.
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I've always thought that shutter release buttons that work vertically are designed wrongly. The very act of pressing downwards is likely to cause camera movement.

Surely a release button on the front of the camera, that you squeeze towards you, would tend to cause less camera shake.

The only cameras I've ever seen with the shutter release designed like that is the Edixa: http://www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/wirgin2.htm

Although some Praktica cameras had the release button angled at 45 degrees which was on the way there: http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/praktica_ltl3.html--
Ron Poelman said:
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button. - Andy Warhol
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MisterBG said:
I've always thought that shutter release buttons that work vertically are designed wrongly. The very act of pressing downwards is likely to cause camera movement.

Surely a release button on the front of the camera, that you squeeze towards you, would tend to cause less camera shake.

The only cameras I've ever seen with the shutter release designed like that is the Edixa: http://www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/wirgin2.htm

Although some Praktica cameras had the release button angled at 45 degrees which was on the way there: http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/praktica_ltl3.html--
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Exactas and some Mirandas also had front-mounted shutter releases. As I recall, they were no fun to use.
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Leonard Migliore
 
Leonard Migliore said:
MisterBG said:
I've always thought that shutter release buttons that work vertically are designed wrongly. The very act of pressing downwards is likely to cause camera movement.

Surely a release button on the front of the camera, that you squeeze towards you, would tend to cause less camera shake.

The only cameras I've ever seen with the shutter release designed like that is the Edixa: http://www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/wirgin2.htm

Although some Praktica cameras had the release button angled at 45 degrees which was on the way there: http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/praktica_ltl3.html--
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Exactas and some Mirandas also had front-mounted shutter releases. As I recall, they were no fun to use.
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Leonard Migliore
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Mirandas with front shutter buttons were my first "real" cameras (including a "D", which used a button on the lens to simultaneously stop down the iris and press the shutter release on the body, which allowed wide-open view-finding. Ingenious, for its day.) As I recall the front button took some practice to use, but it worked. I think I generally used my middle finger. There's no question that top right buttons are more ergonomic, and need not result in more camera shake.

Dave
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