<span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"]I Agree. Why even bother telling photographers to "throw away" their tripods? In fact, what is the purpose of that article anyway? Fortunately, I value my tripod and use it very frequently - It will be a very long time before it ends up in the trash. But what type of useful insight is this? What is he trying to prove? What is he trying to teach us?



[i]<span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"]Hang onto your tripod if you're shooting a real camera like a [url="http://www.adorama.com/Refby.tpl?refby=rflAID021866&amp;sku=HSH2D39]Hasselblad[/url], Gandolfi, [url="http://www.adorama.com/Refby.tpl?refby=rflAID021866&amp;sku=LF120]Linhof[/url], Silvestri, [url="http://www.adorama.com/Refby.tpl?refby=rflAID021866&amp;sku=HM21645]Horseman[/url], [url="http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/tachihara.htm]Tachihara[/url], Gilde, [url="http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/seitz-6x17-digital.htm]Seitz[/url], Sinar or even a Wisner, Wista or [url="http://www.kenrockwell.com/mamiya/7.htm]Mamiya[/url], but toss it if you're shooting a popular digital SLR [/i]


<span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"]Wait, am I shooting a fake camera? I own a Linhof medium format kit - Is that real? [:H]


<span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"]3.) [url="http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/diffraction.htm]Diffraction[/url]
becomes more significant with smaller format sensors, making smaller
apertures like f/16 off limits because diffraction makes images visibly
softer with today's high-resolution cameras. Compact point-and-shoot
cameras have much smaller sensors, and have no apertures smaller than
f/8 for exactly this reason.[/i]


[i]<span style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"]5.) Today's digital SLRs'
have spectacular quality at high ISOs, if you're in marginal light.
Shoot at ISO 400, 800 and 1,600 on a DSLR and the results are as good
as slow film used to be.


<span style="font-size: small;"]I really wish real life ISO performance comparisons were provided to back up his generalizations.


<span style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"]Sadly many people still look
like idiots using tripods with digital cameras in daylight. These guys
are throwbacks to the 1950s, or the early 2000s.


<span style="font-size: small;"]Need I say more?



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