Hot take: I gave up on tripod shots of the dead Sears in Owings Mills and handheld worked better

Sandra Lee · 2026-10-18T04:20:03.360931+00:00

Zero light in that place means a 2 second exposure, so I drug a tripod in and ate 3 hours fighting blur from the shaky floor tiles before I gave up on it. Switched to handheld at ISO 3200 with 1/30 and the keepers went from maybe 4 to 30 in twenty minutes. The tile grout lines and the old pharmacy sign both came out sharp enough to read, which never happened on the tripod. What ISO are you all pushing in these windowless anchors, or am I the only one who skipped the tripod?

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