Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rumor has it that if you leave both IS turned on, you can let go of the camera and it remains floating in mid air. Some report that it tracks moving subjects, and can automatically take swishy pans! ;-) I think it sounds like a new episode of Myth Busters. Tom On Feb 2, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > This is also what the manual says--at the end of chapter 4 (in the > Dutch version): "If you use a lens with built-in IS, then turn off > the IS on either the camera or the lens". > > Nathan > > On 3-feb-2008, at 1:47, admin wrote: > >> Hello Philippe, >> I asked my camera seller (who surprisingly, unlike most Hong Kong >> dealers, is quite knowledgeable) about using the Vario OIS stab on >> the E3 (which, as you know, also has built in stabilization) and he >> suggested that I should turn off one or the other so I have been >> using the in camera stabilization with the lens stab turned off. >> This makes sense to me. I reason that if both systems are on they >> may over compensate themselves or cancel themselves out. The shot >> was ORF processed in the Oly software since I couldn't get to CS2 >> to read the ORF files. I am finding that performance up to iSO 800 >> is exemplary and with noise suppression very good to ISO 1600. The >> 100% viewfinder is a vast improvement over the dim tunnel vision of >> the 330E and the autofocus is now getting into Nikon D200 / Canon >> 40D territory in terms of speed and accuracy. Live View is a >> compromise over the Live View of the 330E and retrograde in my >> opinion. It doesn't have the 10X magnification for manual focus >> lenses which so improved my focus accuracy using R lenses on the >> 330E. This is a disappointment. Still, in sum the E3 is several >> steps forward over the 330E/ L1 and I suggest that if you try one >> you will likely end up buying it. However, I am still keeping my >> 330E for use with R lenses. >> Cheers >> Howard (on the periphery of the worst winter in China in 50 years) >> On 3 Feb 2008, at 4:12 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: >> > > Nathan Wajsman > nathan@nathanfoto.com > General photography: > http://www.nathanfoto.com > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information