In a Ritz camera shop the people said image stabilization has no benifit when at zooms of 1x -5x, and not really much at 6x. They said it is very effective, but really only when you have talking about much higher zooms, like on a dSLR and such. Does anyone know anything about this?
2006-07-06 07:56:03 · 1 answers · asked by Dan S 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
It depends what type of image stabilisation you are talking about. Some cameras have digital image stabiliser, and to be honest, they don't have any effect even if you go beyond 6x zoom.
Optical image stabiliser of canon camera is the only best one that i am aware of so far. I have tried the optical image stabilizer on panasonic camera upto 6x zoom and found no effect at all. Even though it is effective as they claim, but i haven't seen any effect of it at all.
In canon, i have tried many camera even at 3X optical zoon, they do have a good effect specially when you are shooting in a low light condition but in nice sunny day, the image stabilizer is only good if you are shooting beyong 6x zoom otherwise turn the IS off to save battery.
2006-07-06 11:50:33 · answer #1 · answered by Manish 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋