Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Tom, my fuzzylogics will improve no end now :-D phx Tom Schofield wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >