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Photography notes. Digital photographers may be interested to hear that the snap in the preceding article was taken with no flash in very low light, with a shutter speed of just 1/6th of a second. That's usually too slow to get anything usable from a shot of a person who's moving and talking, let alone something as sharp as that particular picture. To get the shot, I balanced the camera on the back of a chair in front of me, and set it take 5 shots in a row whenever I pressed the shutter button. Out of all those shots, there was a particularly good one. It also helped a lot that the camera, a Panasonic LX1, has image stabilization, to take some of the camera shake out of the image.
