Comments on: Avoiding Shake - How To Hold A Digital Camera

By: mick c

mick c — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:35:33 +0000

I disagree with holding your breath - you’d be possibly self conscious about doing so and it might cause more camera shake - breathing out - yes - taking deep breathes before hand - yes

By: Martius

Martius — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:02:27 +0000

Mostly everything has been said about stabilising your camera and pushing or squeesing the button, also concentrate to remain in the position for that fraction of a second longer and not rush the shot. About image stabilisers in new generation gear, they need to be turned off as soon as your camera is being used on a tripod or other solid type of support as the sensors will start to “hunt” for movement once none is found and then induce shake. They default to “stabilser” off or a bypass setting when used on time delay and remote or cable release but cannot identify being stabilised by a tripod or beanbag yet, i think…..

By: Linda Uy

Linda Uy — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:43:38 +0000

There’s another way to steady the camera when hand holding is to improvise by using a long sturdy string. Here when I don’t have a tripod I will loop the string under for me to step on and stretched it up to my eye level, making it taut and take the shot. I find it does help eliminate the shake that causes blurry pictures! Long cotton shoe string, macrame, etc works. Add the other tips like ramping up the ISO; turning on the stabilization feature; turning on the timer etc helps too.

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By: Jim N

Jim N — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:57:58 +0000

Recently I shot some store photos for a magazine on my 7 mp point-and-shoot and they looked sharp until I saw them full-size when blur was evident. I’m planning to practice, use tripod and shutter delay timer to assure steadiness. Wish the digital camera had a cable release.

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By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:13:39 +0000

to reduce camera shake i find that if you compose your shot press the sutter button half way first it works.

By: Tom Dillon

Tom Dillon — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:01:20 +0000

If you DO have an optical viewfinder on your point-and-shoot camera, by all means use it to reduce camera shake. It will also drastically reduce the drain on your battery (the LCD is your battery’s greatest power user.) Tripod, yes. Monopod, yes. Do what you have to do to sharpen your images with your camera.