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Panasonic OIS compatibility on Olympus bodies?

Started Feb 24, 2018 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
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Re: Panasonic OIS compatibility on Olympus bodies?
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JakeJY wrote:

I should say, to be fair, in Panasonic bodies there is no choice of using OIS or IBIS (it's either stabilization is on or off; OIS switch doesn't let you do that either), so Olympus provided more options in the first place.

Of course Panasonic has dual IS which mitigates most of this.

Olympus now has a couple of lenses with OIS and in some earlier bodies it does X-Y correction with the lens and Roll correction only with the IBIS. Limited cooperation.

Some latest bodies do work better and combine OIS and IBIS to get better X-Y stabilisation plus of course Roll correction. With those two Oly lenses turn off the OIS switch and it turns off all stabilisation. So it's all or nothing.

They did a late upgrade to the old E-M5 Mk1 to include Panasonic non-switched OIS lenses, but then in the E-M10 Mk3 they dropped that ability and went backwards by 6 years.

The rules get weirder as time goes by.

Regards..... Guy

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