Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alastair, that is different experience from mine, obviously. Of all the cameras I have used the E3 has the least effective IS! Ah well. Frank On 31 Jan, 2010, at 08:23, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote: >> I can not speak for the EP 2 but I have tried the E3 with a panaleica >> 14-150 lens, which is excellent BTW, which has stabilisation. The manuals >> strongly advise against leaving both stabilisations on together, it does >> not work. I preferred body stabilisation off, lens on in this combination. >> The EP1 I tried had pitifully slow AF compared to the Panasonic G1, so I >> bet the GF1 will be better than the EP2. >> I actually think IS is over-rated. It does not compensate for rotary shake >> very well, if at all, so in general I think it is a snapshot or get you >> out the sh*t solution. The E3 was very poor with long lenses and IS on, >> -very- few keepers. The E3 and normal lenses are not really much smaller >> than 35mm stuff, the teles are much smaller so I thought it would be a >> great camera for nature pix when walking my dogs but I got very few sharp >> shots, either AF or IS not working well :-( Better with MF and no IS. >> Not worth carrying at all. >> cheers, >> Frank > > Frank I cannot really agree here. The E3 has fantastic IS. I did a series > of tests with it and even with wide angles the images were better at > 1/500th sec. It is not a cure for everything, and you must turn it off > when on a tripod, but for hand held stuff Helen keeps it on all the time > and her images are VERY competitive. > > Cheers > > Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information