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Blurry photos are blurry Anonymous
Dear /p/, I have a problem. For the photography I have been doing lately, I've been ending up with blurry pictures because my hand grip sucks. I'm in a scenario where a tripod isn't an option, and the shot has to be done quick, IE, no time to sit it somewhere and make things look pretty.

Does /p/ have any suggestions of tools or other random ideas to help steady the camera so my god awful hands stop causing blur wobble?
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>> Anonymous
Change your shutter speed and aperture size, failing that, change film iso.
>> Macheath
How about a monopod?
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>57227

mono pod is win. If you don't move to the side, but you move up and down, a mono pod works out great. That's what I use for my larger lens
>> Anonymous
lol so you're stalking ppl and dont want them to know you're taking pics?

lean up against something?
>> Anonymous
The ISO was 64 for the image. You can bump that up a bunch.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Lean against things. Bump your ISO up a bit. Keep your aperture at its widest (f/3.2 rather than the f/4.5 you're rockin' in that shot). Take a class or workshop or something on marksmanship.

If those don't work, your options are pretty much limited to getting a better camera. f/3.2 max on a point & shoot is Epic Fail, especially on a superzoom. That screams out "Fuck it, the people who're buying this don't know what aperture is, they just know that 10x is bigger than the competition's 7x zoom. We can cheap out on glass." Something like the S3IS gives you an f/2.8 max aperture *and* image stabilization. Or, even better, pick up a digital SLR with an f/1.8 lens and the ability to take clear shots at ISO400.
>> Anonymous
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'm going to try and mess with some of these settings to see how it works out.
>> Moo !XBOXgikTFw
Tense arms and keep them close to the body (kinda like a MANTIS). Alternatively, and far gayer, you could place the other arm's elbow on your hips and support the camera elbow with the hand.
>> Anonymous
>>57257Keep your aperture at its widest
Actually most of the blue in the image is a result of the overly shallow depth of field. An f/11 or f/16 would have been nice in that shot. At 1/250, you'd have to be pretty fucking unstable to get much shake blur. So yeah, bump up your ISO, but use that to increase your f number.