[Leica] See the Sony Sensor Dance!

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Geoff, nice save, and I'm not a member of SUG or OUG :-) or even CUG and
NUG!

BUT... you can bet that if Leica or Phase One can put in the in-body
stabilizing technology, they would do it in a heartbeat while claiming how
amazingly innovative it is (which is true for their respective platforms).

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lew this is pretty common in many camera systems. Some have the function
> built into the body so it will work with any lens and some lenses have
> vibration reduction built in. The movement is intended to counteract an
> unwanted shift, so in theory it is preserving, not cutting off any image
> data.
>
> The Leica systems don't do it because their approach is to position the
> sensor at the focus plane as perfectly as possible, adjusted to a couple of
> microns increments. So the sensor is intended to record exactly what went
> in, if you like, not help compensate for imperfect conditions/technique.
> None of the medium format systems use that sensor shifting either.
> Different philosophies, which is not to say that each doesn't work.
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
> On 27 November 2014 at 11:30, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > Steve Barbour
> >
> > On Nov 26, 2014, at 5:19 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm having trouble getting my head around this idea. The sensor actually
> > moves to accommodate subject movement to render a sharp image? At even a
> > moderate shutter speed this'd have to be mighty fast ....  without
> > introducing additional shake on its own and ... if it shakes/moves up for
> > instance, what happens to image data that should derive from the bottom
> of
> > the frame?
> >
> > When I first heard about this, I imagined that the on board software
> > accomplished this by applying something like sharpening/focusing.
> >
> >
> > Hang in there, leica will introduce this development in 30 years...
> >
> > s
> >
> >
> > -Lew Schwartz
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
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> http://petapixel.com/2014/11/25/video-real-world-video-sony-a7ii-5-axis-stab
> > > ilization-shifting-sensor/
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> > > Frank Filippone
> > >
> > > Red735i at verizon.net
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