Or p'raps Bifta should have gone for the
PowerShot S1is instead - 3 megapix, 10x optical zoom with optical image stabilization.
My photos suffer from this quite often. I try to stay steady but sometimes it's not convenient to hang around! I'm sure I used to be better at this in my youth when I wielded a trusty Zenith-B. I think that the shutter delay of digitals doesn't help. I often seem to take the camera away from my eye too quickly - I'll try to remember that big breath trick.