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

Started Feb 20, 2018 | Discussions thread
schlafmuetze Regular Member • Posts: 129
Re: How many of GX9's "5-axis IBIS" are actually IB?
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tt321 wrote:

There is usually a CIBA rating in stops. It can be useful for comparison purposes for the average person corresponding to whatever CIBA uses to give that rating. It's just like CIBA battery life rating is useful for cross comparisons (but might not be a good indication of how many shots each person may expect to get per charge).

CIPA ratings for battery life may at least give you some indication, and if camera A does the tests better than camera B then it is a good chance that also in your hands A will be better than B, even if the absolute numbers may be far off. At least as long as all cameras use the same screen technology etc.

Stabilization is far less comparable between persons, and it is easily to imagine a situation with two combinations of camera+lens, say X and Y, and two test persons, say A and B, where A finds X better than Y, and B finds Y better than X, and these may even be repeatable results. This situation just has too many variables in it.

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