Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue Apr 15 21:47:17 2008
References: <C42A6872.A13E8%mark@rabinergroup.com> <4805072D.5020308@tele2.fr> <70165397-4C7B-42D4-90C5-A44689CD4171@nathanfoto.com> <200804152233.m3FMX5X7022877@mail.imagecraft.com> <6F0C408B-7237-45C8-8C49-FB0849E99761@nathanfoto.com>

I guess we are talking about different things. Sorry :-)

I was referring to just the ability to handhold regardless what the 
subject itself is doing. I guess my point is, if you have in body IS, 
why turn it off except when you are using a tripod?

At 09:41 PM 4/15/2008, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>Sorry Richard, but IS will do absolutely nothing to help you with
>subjects who are moving, jumping, leaping and flying. It will help
>when the subjects are relatively stationary but allowing you to
>handhold at speeds 2-3 stops slower than otherwise and get an
>acceptable image. But you are talking about subject movement, for
>which IS does nothing.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
please use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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