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11-DEC-2005

Old man

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30
1/10s f/3.6 at 65.5mm iso200 full exif

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Phil Douglis12-Dec-2005 18:36
This is a fine portrait, but it is a bit soft due to camera shake. You used 1/10th of a second shutter speed here, which would be equivalent to an image made at 1/40th or 1/60th of a second WITHOUT image stabilization. You used a very long focal length here, which is equivalent to 310mm, a focal length that would require at least a 1/300th of a second to avoid blur due to camera shake. The bottom line is that even with image stabilization, you can't make a shot with that long a lens at that slow a shutter speed unless the camera is on a tripod. Either a tripod or else live with the softness.