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How many of GX9's "5-axis IBIS" are actually IB?

Started Feb 20, 2018 | Discussions thread
MOD Tom Caldwell Forum Pro • Posts: 46,352
Re: How many of GX9's "5-axis IBIS" are actually IB?

I don’t follow the details of IBIS technology and so only have a basic grasp of it. In fact I am more than happy to use unstabilised lenses on GM type bodies and somehow manage to get acceptable photographs But I will not knock back any working stabilisation if the gear has it - I don’t make being unstabilised into a mission

From the chitty-chat when Olympus decided to lens-stabilise its 300/4 lens it would seem that IBIS has some sort of movement limitations caused by the size of its sensor carrier.  This gets worse the longer the lens.  The Olympus IBIS may well have been reaching its movement amplitude maximums with this lens.

Therefore my guess is that where the lens and body stablisations combine it is not so much to add extra axis but to allow the lens and body stabilisations to combine to amplify existing movements in the same direction where this becomes necessary.

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