Cleaning up "camer shake"?

[Witchfinder]

I was at the Royal Armouies in Leeds on Friday, and because they won't allow flash photography, a lot of my pictures ended up with terrible camera-shake on them. I've looked at a few pieces of software (I can't afford expensive stuff like Adobe Potatochop - I'm using Gimp 2.0) but they all seem to add quite a lot of noise to the image.

Does anyone have any suggestions or links to good tutorials for fixing my images? Next time I go back, hopefully I'll be armed with a decent SLR and a tripod.

[RobDickinson]

Sorry not a lot can be done for motion blured pics, just some tweaking with sharpening etc depending on how bad they are.

[Gemm]

If you try to fix blurred images, they usually turn out even worse than before, so just dump them and try again.

[kybo]

I would consider a monopod over a tripod. Good stability but more versatile and transportable. If your budget will allow, get an IS lens - will help with camera shake at slow speeds.

[RobDickinson]

He doesnt have a dSLR, so likely higher ISO is out of the question (as is adding IS if it doesnt have it already).

Stability (monopod used properly) or tripod is likely the best answer.

A good dSLR with fast lens and/or IS would help a lot.

[CivicMan]

Or buy postcards of the interior??

[Witchfinder]

CivicMan said:

Or buy postcards of the interior??

I specifically need to take closeups of various parts of harnesses for the purposes of historical research and reproduction.

[DanH]

Witchfinder said:

CivicMan said:

Or buy postcards of the interior??

I specifically need to take closeups of various parts of harnesses for the purposes of historical research and reproduction.

Tripod will be the main thing, and then a DLR would help too. Nice thing about no flash is you don't have to worry about reflections from the flash if this stuff is behind glass. If you are getting reflections from other lighting then a polarising filter might help.

A DSLR with a 50mm f1.4 lens would probably be ideal for what you describe.