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TCON-17 setting on the XZ-1

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
Stephen Strangways
Stephen Strangways Contributing Member • Posts: 968
Re: TCON-17 setting on the XZ-1

Brian Chichester wrote:

More useful to me is that it beefs up the onboard IS to allow for the longer FL (though it's not quite as long as the camera thinks it is).

This is exactly what you don't want. The camera will be expecting a 190mm equivalent, which would require more stabilization than the 168mm equivalent that you actually, have, so it will overcompensate, and it will actively blur your photos and make them worse. It's fine to undercorrect by letting the camera think you have a shorter focal length, but you never want it overcorrecting by thinking you have a longer focal length.

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