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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 512609" data-attributes="member: 13090">Two rules of thumb for photography:1. Hand held shots below 1/60 are tricky. With really good technique, some sort of vibration reduction, etc. sometimes you can get down to 1/15 or so but that's dodgy. Better to keep hand held shots at a minimum of 1/60 for stationary subjects.2. Keep your shutter speed at, or above the reciprocal of the lens you are shooting. This means if you are shooting at 50mm, your shutter speed should not be any slower than 1/50. When shooting at 200mm, your shutter speed should not fall below 1/200, etc. However, when shooting a DX body, however, the rule is increased to 1.5 times the reciprocal of the focal length because of the smaller sensor. So if you are shooting at 50mm on a DX body, you want your shutter speed no slower than about 1/75. Personally, I prefer to simply double my shutter speed when shooting DX; so if I'm shooting at 70mm, I keep my shutter speed at, or above, 1/140. If this means increasing ISO so that I can get to that shutter speed, that's what I do and I don't really care how high my ISO has to go to get there. Digital noise I can remove in post but a blurry shot from too slow a shutter speed typically means an unrecoverable (wasted) shot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 512609, member: 13090"] Two rules of thumb for photography: 1. Hand held shots below 1/60 are tricky. With really good technique, some sort of vibration reduction, etc. sometimes you can get down to 1/15 or so but that's dodgy. Better to keep hand held shots at a minimum of 1/60 for stationary subjects. 2. Keep your shutter speed at, or above the reciprocal of the lens you are shooting. This means if you are shooting at 50mm, your shutter speed should not be any slower than 1/50. When shooting at 200mm, your shutter speed should not fall below 1/200, etc. However, when shooting a DX body, however, the rule is increased to 1.5 times the reciprocal of the focal length because of the smaller sensor. So if you are shooting at 50mm on a DX body, you want your shutter speed no slower than about 1/75. Personally, I prefer to simply double my shutter speed when shooting DX; so if I'm shooting at 70mm, I keep my shutter speed at, or above, 1/140. If this means increasing ISO so that I can get to that shutter speed, that's what I do and I don't really care how high my ISO has to go to get there. Digital noise I can remove in post but a blurry shot from too slow a shutter speed typically means an unrecoverable (wasted) shot. [/QUOTE]

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