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Does GX7 ibis automatically switch off when ois lens is attached?

Started Apr 25, 2015 | Questions thread
OP norman shearer Senior Member • Posts: 1,418
Re: Does GX7 ibis automatically switch off when ois lens is attached?

Len_Gee wrote:

norman shearer wrote:

Just got the Panasonic 45-200mm lens and want to use its OIS. Cannot figure out how to turn off GX7 ibis..

Go to IBIS off menu. It's on page of instruction manual.

Enjoy camera.

Lena

There is no IBIS off menu. There is a STABILIZER menu and when an OIS lens is attached it only has options for normal IBIS or IBIS for up/down movement only (for horizontal panning). I just stuck on my 20mm pancake and with that on the STABILIZER menu has an "off" option.

This confirms that Panasonic concede that OIS is more effective at stabilizing than IBIS, otherwise they would allow me to choose. Not that IBIS is bad of course - as the EM5ii and now Pentax K3ii will confirm. 

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