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GH4 and 14-140 stabilization issue

Started Jun 22, 2014 | Discussions thread
jkoch2
jkoch2 Senior Member • Posts: 1,198
GH4 and 14-140 stabilization theory

The fast jitter might appear because Power OIS is optimized for high megapixel sensors that bin most of the pixels.  The hand-shake reduction can thus work by picking adjacent pixels that align with the binning sequence.

Since the GH4 sensor uses full read of a cropped area of the sensor, without any binning, perhaps the Power OIS simply cannot operate the same way, thus creating a distortion.

Meanwhile, if the FZ1000 stabilization was optimized for its fixed lens, perhaps the jitters aren't as pronounced.  Maybe someone should take one to a zoo and shoot a hand-held zoom shot of a tiger under similar lighting conditions!

At any rate, that is one $0.02 theory to consider.

This sort of thing may not be reported, or ever discussed, in forums where the users shoot on tripod at night all the time.

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