Wanted to take a picture of my wife and I while hiking on a trail on vacation. Hadn't brought the tripod, so just nestled the K20 down on the top of my camera bag and used the shutter delay. Took 3 shots mostly because of facial expressions (don't ever let your wife count down the seconds till the shutter clicks, at least not out loud anyway
). At a quick glance the shots didn't look too bad in the LCD. After I got home and downloaded them I found that each one of them was fuzzy. Not OOF fuzzy, but vibration fuzzy. I don't ever remember having this trouble with my ME or my Program. Have taken plenty of shots using stumps or rocks or logs as a "tripod" with favorable results.
This got me to thinking. I've had trouble getting crisp shots using my tripod. It's not fancy or the best quality(OK some might call it cheap
, bought it at BestBuy), but had worked fine with the camcorder. Have used the same tripod with bellows and the Program, though I did have the end of the lens supported, and got great results. Had used 2 sec. shutter delay with a 300mm Tamron SP with less than satisfactory results. As a matter of fact, I'd pretty much quit using that lens because of it. Yet while on vacation I used that same lens to take some pictures handheld from a moving boat that came out fine. I purchased a remote to use with my macros on the tripod and haven't been really satisfied with the crispness of many of those shots. It's not an SR problem, I've tried both ways, on and off. Sometimes I've actually had better results handheld.
Guess I've got few questions. Is this shutter vibration? Is the shutter action different in the digital than in the film bodies? It seems I was able to get good shots before just resting the camera on just about anything. Do I have a poor tripod problem? Just how far would I need to go to have an adequate one? Are there any precautions I can take with the one I have? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Arvin