One of the biggest reasons for failure to get a good crisp image which is sharp, hence the usual fitment of a tripod screw hole in the base of the camera. This is obviously the best way. Then the other way is to hold the camera up to your eye and brace yourself and squeeze the button to make the exposure, I suppose 80% of the time that is good enough.
Now we are well into the digital capture age, there are high end and lower priced cameras which do not have the benefit of even a simple viewfinder. They only have the screen at the back where you look at the scene at arms length, then press the shutter button. The incidence of images with some lesser or greater degree of shake must be very high and render most (by our standards) worse than useless.
I was out walking the other day and watched a woman with one of the later Canon SLR's with a mighty zoom lens on the front, using the rear screen to compose and then take the picture. I could see the end of the lens bobbing up and down by as much as 1/2" as she held it with arms outstretched. Heaven knows what the images were like.
I know we have image stabilsing features but that can only cater for so much movement.
Now we are well into the digital capture age, there are high end and lower priced cameras which do not have the benefit of even a simple viewfinder. They only have the screen at the back where you look at the scene at arms length, then press the shutter button. The incidence of images with some lesser or greater degree of shake must be very high and render most (by our standards) worse than useless.
I was out walking the other day and watched a woman with one of the later Canon SLR's with a mighty zoom lens on the front, using the rear screen to compose and then take the picture. I could see the end of the lens bobbing up and down by as much as 1/2" as she held it with arms outstretched. Heaven knows what the images were like.
I know we have image stabilsing features but that can only cater for so much movement.