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Started Jan 11, 2019 | User reviews thread
Guy Parsons
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Re: E-P5

WhiteBeard wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

Plus in my personal exhaustive testing of IBIS performance I found that screen use gave a whisker more reliable results than holding the camera against my face with the EVF.

That is interesting and rather counter intuitive. I would have thought that holding the camera with both hands and close to your face would provide more stability...

Yes, a surprise to me as well. Maybe it's because the IBIS is better tuned to human movements that may happen with camera held out a bit from the body.

In reality it was only a tiny difference and probably well within the realms of experimental variations, so I am a bit bold to make that statement above.

The best performance hand-held and with screen use a couple of years back was 1/2 second at 40mm with the E-P5 (over 5 stops), but currently I can't seem to get much past 1/4 second at 40mm (something over 4 stops). That performance is good enough for all the things that I do. It means that I never carry a tripod on holidays any more.

Regards..... Guy

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