Re: ALPA rumors Photokina 2012
Two questions -
How about you post a photo of how you mounted the camera and lens to your tripod, and then we can go from there (I'll post how I do it later in the day)?
I've posted samples shot at 300mm above at 1/6th of a second and 0.7 seconds. Can you see evidence of vibration in those shots?
Kind regards,
Gerald.
With respect Victor, you seem to be completely ignoring the reason why I would appear to not have a problem with shutter vibration from the FPS, whilst you did.Gerald,
When I had my FPS I was thrilled for once having the ability to dial in a shutter speed in tenth's if I wanted and have my f stop of choice. No more being forced into whole f stop's for shutter speed changes. I was willing to take on the extra bulk and weight. For the first two days I busy just getting into every aspect of the FPS and was completely overjoyed with what it could do. Then...... I started to look at my images from my IQ180 at 100% and was taken back that they were soft. I'm pretty good at nailing focus but blamed it on focus - took more images and looked again and sure enough they were soft. In fact they were soft everywhere - I couldn't find *any* in focus area (f11). So, I decided to see if maybe, just maybe there were shutter issues. I was using my STC in combination with the FPS and mounted my 150mm Digitar and shot my house from about 150 feet. The FPS was set to 5 second delay. I then switched shutters and shot with the STC and cable release (same shutter speed for both). Examination showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was significant shutter vibration with the focal plain shutter which was *completely* absent when using the leaf shutter. That was it for me..... it all just really started to make sense..... they were using the same shutter that Mamiya supplies to Phase and that camera is completely useless with longer lenses in the danger shutter speed zone (I own one!!). There's no reason why the FPS would be any better...... and if there was a fix it would have been implemented by now with a firmware upgrade. Obviously it can't be done. Alpa bragged about their shutter being vibration free and I bought it hook line and sinker. It took me three days to figure out that the opposite existed and I sent it back for a refund. Anyone who posts about these shutters not being completely vibration free and we should all just live with it *can* live with it..... I'm not. Not for that kind of money...... and I can easily afford it. For your sake I'm glad you are pleased and I hope the FPS brings you great pleasure. Didn't work for me......
Victor
Two questions -
How about you post a photo of how you mounted the camera and lens to your tripod, and then we can go from there (I'll post how I do it later in the day)?
I've posted samples shot at 300mm above at 1/6th of a second and 0.7 seconds. Can you see evidence of vibration in those shots?
Kind regards,
Gerald.