[hockmasm]

noticing some of my shots are slightly blurry..probably cause handheld... do you shoot handheld mostly or use tripod?

[wlachan]

Scenery & macro - tripod; Everything else - handheld. The lack of sharpness could be due to camera movement, subject movement, focus accuracy, lens sharpness or sharpening.

[Mike.P®]

Have had a DSLR for 2 years now and bought a decent tripod at the same time.
Have used it once for a macro shot and never bothered since.

Too much faffing about for me.

[zxaar]

noticing some of my shots are slightly blurry..probably cause handheld... do you shoot handheld mostly or use tripod?

handheld but probably haven't shot anything important that i shall bother with tripod.

If what i was shooting was important, i would use tripod even if i could gotten away with handheld.

[felixkh]

Mostly handheld

[Jasvox]

Depends on what I am shooting, but probably 85% hand held.

Jason

[Lucky Sky]

8000+ images, 3 Pentax DSLRs, 100% hand-held.

[Ken T]

For years, 99.99% hand-held.

[twokatmew]

I recently got both a monopod and tripod, because I hadn't been getting very many "keepers" hand-held, and there's not always something around to lean on.

I used the monopod for the first time yesterday and got quite good results. I'll definitely be needing the tripod for close-ups & macros with my DA35 and my DAL50-200/Raynox 150. I can't wait till the rain subsides so I can try the tripod out!

When I have sufficient light and high enough shutter speeds, I'll still do hand-held though.

[sterretje]

95% handheld
the rest nightshots and macro/test on tripod

[snostorm]

Hi hockmasm,

I haven't actually counted, but I imagine I'm about 50-50 with my bird shots. I probably shoot more volume handheld because I have to hedge for the lower percentage of keeper grade shots, but I tend to shoot the greater percentage of shoots per season from a tripod/gimbal with a significantly higher success rate.

I discovered last year that I had raised the bar in quality but was having less fun. This year I'm keeping the fun factor in mind, and am planning on shooting more handheld. I might change my mind back again depending on my ability to handle the possible increase in frustration, but I even went so far as to initiate a light weight training regimen to increase my upper body strength. Hopefully increasing fitness will offset turning 60 a bit. I wasn't exactly a couch potato, but age has its inevitable consequences. . . and everything gets harder as time passes.

Scott

[Canada_Rockies]

I use the tripod virtually all the time with the 400. For the 12-24 and 16-50 I will use the tripod when I am shooting particular subjects that need level horizons or absolute parallel to the subject to avoid keystoning, but for general use, both are hand held. The 50-135 is hand held most of the time. The 100 macro is hand held (!) 99 percent of the time. I chase bugs with it. As the macro is manual focus, catch-in-focus works very well for me. Trying to shoot bugs with a tripod is a bit out of my realm of possibilities, I'm afraid.

[KxBlaze]

Depends on what the shooting subject is. I like to take a lot of motion blur of waterfalls and just movement in general so a tripod is necessary. Also necessary when I set up my camera pointed at my bird feeder. A tripod is also a hassle to set up, move, attach etc... so handheld WHENEVER possible but sometimes it is just not possible so about 75% handheld.

[slinco]

I'm about 80% tripod lately. But I mostly use it as a mono-pod. By that I mean I don't spread the legs very often - only when I want a panorama or an HDR bracket. I carry it, camera attached and legs together but fully extended, on my shoulder. I can swing it down and get a shot as quickly as if it were hand held, but much more stable obviously.

[mickeyobe]

noticing some of my shots are slightly blurry..probably cause handheld... do you shoot handheld mostly or use tripod?

Yes.

But more and more I find I am using my monopod.
It doe make an appreciable difference and is easy to carry about.

My tripod not so often.

Mickey