Originally posted by normhead There are times when so many people seem to be in agreement, I just let things like this pass. It falls under the category of "it's not that big a deal". I have never once has an image ruined by SR being turned on when shooting on a tripod, and I've taken thousands of them. Sometimes, people are just going to believe what they want. Most of the time I just use the tripod to steady the camera, it's not locked down, to prevent vibration or movement. When tracking squirrels or birds it doesn't make any sense to lock your tripod. So, SR is always on.
When I bought my K10D, which was my first autofocus camera, I was always upset everytime I forgot to turn SR off when on a tripod. Eventually I discovered that there was never really any difference. The shots that did not turn out had nothing to do with SR being on. It had more to do with me. Eventually I just started leaving it on all the time. I also have never really noticed any difference between my lenses that have OS and using SR. So now I just use SR all the time. I briefly had the Sigma 70-200 with OS but found the 2.2kg difference over the Tamron 70-200 not worth it. So the Sigma went back and now I have the Tamron again.
We have so many feral cats here I almost never see any squirrels. THE squirrels that are around don't stay still very long. This guy used to live in the tree behind my house but now the whole nest is gone.
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