There is nothing surprising in this test/demonstration. - Neither the Leica 14-50 nor the E-510 in-body stabilization are designed to work together. Enabling them both at the same time is *bound* to give a dynamically unstable result.
- It's not a good test comparing the capabilities of in-body vs in- lens IS either. The E-510 was not designed for in-lens IS and cannot control the Panasonic/Leica lens OIS system to obtain its best operation. The lens operates only at the default Mode 1 setting ... continuous IS, not "at exposure time IS" ... which limits its IS efficiency where when you turn the in-lens IS off and use the in-body IS, the E-510s well tuned IS system operates at its effective maximum. The E-3 body demonstrates this even more conclusively as its in-body IS is more efficient than the E-510. I use this lens on the E-1 body, with IS enabled at Mode 1 same as on the E-510. It provides a nice modicum of improved hand-holdability (approximately 1-2 stops on average), but is not up to an in-body system tuned for maximum efficiency. Used on the L1, it performs much more efficiently in Mode 2 (2-3 stops on average), also typical of my experience with Canon bodies and their in-lens IS systems. I have both the Panasonic L1 with this lens (which is the camera it was designed for) and the Pentax K10D with comparable focal length prime and zoom lenses. I've compared hand-holdability at the same effective field of view focal lengths. IMO, there is no practical difference in the efficiency of the two IS systems for comparable quality results. Godfrey On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Good stuff. I was a bit surprised to see that, at least in this > example, the in-camera system is as effective as the lens > stabilization. > >> The was posted over at DPReview: >> >> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPdy52mR6Io> >> >> I wasn't at all surprised at the result of running both systems >> simultaneously. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
