A little over a year ago I bought a Nikon D200 digital SLR camera and a vibration-reduction (VR) lens. I've been saying that the VR feature gives me about two stops of exposure, and on a recent trip to Italy I pushed the envelope, just for fun. My friend and I rode the vaporetto down the Grand Canal at night, and I sat (sometimes stood) in the back of the boat and shot a number of pictures. Most were blurry (at least partly because of the vaporetto's movement), but several were amazingly clear. Here's the one that came out the best:
Here's a detail from the shot. There's clearly some camera shake visible in it, but an amazing amount of detail can be seen. I think it was a 1/4-second exposure. (I normally shoot with the D200 set on ISO 400.)
One thing I like about digital is that I can experiment without worrying about wasting film.
