My old Pentax K-1000's shutter button has a place where you can screw in a remote shutter cable, and I've been able to take much better and less blurry photos with that. However the new cameras don't have a place to screw in the remote cable, not even on my Pentax Z-XM. Plus I can adjust the aperture and shutter speed on the K-1000, something I can't do with my digital camera.
For any remote shutter release I use the self-timer so that there's no chance of vibration from my hand. You can even do this with snapshot cameras that don't have a remote shutter to get better results.
ReplyDeleteAre you sure your Z-XM doesn't have a port for a shutter release? It may be an electronic one unlike the screw-into-the-shutter button type like the K1000.
All the new whiz-bang stuff these days is truly remote, as in wireless, and always "sold separately," as in expensive.
What O'Tim said....?
ReplyDeleteThey look fine to me, well done.
With my old SLR, in the days when I understood f-stops etc, I once took pictures on a tripod, with the remote, of the moon over wet rooftops. Some of them came out REALLY well. I have no idea where they are now. :(
O'Tim - Thanks for the tip! I will try this. I never even thought to use the timer!! And I'll have to check the Z-XM too.
ReplyDeleteVal - If you dig them out I'd love to see them!
Yes, I did. It was SO clear, you could even make out some of the lines and stuff on the surface. Your pix look fine to me too!
ReplyDeleteYour photo's look great to me.I didn't even think to look so thank you for sharing :-)
ReplyDeleteOooh, Jojo, you are a damn good photographer, babe! And of all things, the Moon....I love staring at it when I see it here and of course, I bay.
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ReplyDeleteWhat can I say? Amazing as always, you are, Jo.
they are great pics joj. we did see it on the way up north. i took a couple pics too, but by the time i got to a plzce where i could, it was much farther up and not nearly as gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see it :( I think your pictures look great JoJo!
ReplyDeleteFound the pictures, JoJo, and they are not quite as I remembered. There's the moonlight on the wet roofs, but no moon.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I played with the timer, too, and have lots of posed piccies of me doing absurd-looking things.
ReplyDeleteThat was a hella cool looking moon.
ReplyDeleteyou must be a perfectionist
ReplyDeletebecause those pics are stunning...
I can even here Axe howling
sorry, that was the dog next door
Thanks Ann. A bitch is a bith, huh?
ReplyDelete***Heee-hee-hee***
*bitch
ReplyDeletePretty.Reminds me I should go out at night more.
ReplyDeleteAxe: toooooo funny!!!!!
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