Quickies
I see that SoFoBoMo has officially kicked off, at least as officially as it can. I'm still trying to figure out when to start my book and whether I'm going to do something local first. Gordon McGregor has used Yahoo Pipes to create a kind of superfeed of blogs and pictures of people working on a book. See it in action here. Pipes is definitely something I'm going to have to look at.
I also ran across an article from someone who ran some tests on image stabilization techniques. He tested a Nikon system, an Olympus system and a handheld Leica. With all the hype about in camera stabilization, it's somewhat surprising that the Nikon system using a lens based system beat the Olympus. Of course, the best photograph was produced using a tripod, but that doesn't really surprise me. The article is here.
I also ran across an article from someone who ran some tests on image stabilization techniques. He tested a Nikon system, an Olympus system and a handheld Leica. With all the hype about in camera stabilization, it's somewhat surprising that the Nikon system using a lens based system beat the Olympus. Of course, the best photograph was produced using a tripod, but that doesn't really surprise me. The article is here.
Comments
You can see how that looks at the top left of my own blog.
In lens stabilisation is going to be tuned to that lens, so it is not surprising that it provides better performance; and also has the benefit of stabilising the image in the view finder. Also, I believe the longer the lens gets, the bigger the gap between in body and lens stabilisation gets.
Now if only Nikon/Canon would add an in body system that switches off when a high quality stabilised lens is attached. :)