Saturday, August 27, 2011

Body and/or lens stabilization

I put a Panasonic stabilized zoom lens on an Olympus Pen Lite body, and I wondered if the lens stabilization would clash with the in-body stabilization of the Olympus, and how much.
Answer: yes it does, and a lot!

Here is both lens- and body-stabilization turned on:

... And here is only body-stabilization turned on:

... Here is only lens-stabilization turned on:
(This is the sharper of two, the other looked like the middle pic)

These are hardly conclusive, since these things vary from second to second. (It's always a good idea when using dicey shutter-times to takes several pics at once, preferably in serial-shooting mode.) But it's clear that having both turned on is a bad idea.
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Below: cameras can look funny when fitted with a lens of a different size-ideal.       :-)


2 comments:

Anna said...

Too much technology kills technology... :)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Yep, like two drivers crash the car.