Saturday 16 February 2019

What happens if stabilization is in the lens and also the body?


This is related to "Is Image Stabilization better in the lens or the body?" - there are lenses with stabilization built-in, and there are bodies with it built-in.


What if a stabilizing lens is combined with a stabilizing body? Would the result be over-compensated, making as bad a mess as the original, or would the camera stabilization attempt to correct any residual motion the lens didn't compensate for?



Answer



If the stabilisation in the camera is digital (i.e. analyses the image to do corrections), it would work with a stabilising lens. However, the stabilisation in the camera would only add anything when the movements are too much for the lens to handle on it's own.


If they are both mechanical, they react to movement of the camera instead of movement of the picture, so together they would overcompensate.



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