I note that Ansel Adams suggested that shooting at 250th of a second or faster will eliminate the effect of camera shake when handholding a camera.
To meet this concern, Adobe introduced a filter named Camera Shake Reduction. This filter can compensate for the tiny movement of the camera from its shutter operation.
Before this filter, the shooter could use mirror lockup to eliminate the camera movement from affecting the captured image.
Gatorcoach wrote:
All the filters, masks, apertures, will help, but not fully correct a shot ruined by camera shake. Avoidance is the answer. My camera club has a number of members who routinely use tripods and numerous who refuse to. Following discussions/arguments about camera and lens quality comparisons and results I scheduled a work session for everyone. We went to a local farm which is a popular area due to its variety of shooting/teaching opportunities. The exercise was to take hand-held shots of whatever they want but must include a variety of subjects: buildings, machinery, closeups, landscapes, birds, animals,....anything and use multiple methods and settings (SS, apertures, etc.). Take the best exposures possible. THEN, take the same pictures using a tripod. They didn't have to do all the variations but concentrate on a perfect 1-2 shots at proper exposure and reasonable shutter speed. At home, compare the shots before applying any filters or doing any editing. The goal of the exercise was conclude whether "human camera shake" affects the result.
It took this exercise for them to realize and accept the fact that "human camera shake" had the greatest effect on sharpness. Let's face it, as we age our strength and stability wanes. Better shooting techniques (posture, using stability aids, i.e. trees, etc, breathing, concentration, etc) all help but a tripod - even a lightweight one) is your friend.
Begrudgedly, there was almost unanimous agreement - except for some of the anti-tripoders. They also agreed you don't have to buy a new $1000 lens to take a picture of a flower!
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