-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mat Hayashibara Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EOS In-camera image stabilization with a digital SLR
At 08:25 PM 2/12/2004 +0100, you wrote: >Long term, this will probably replace most in-lens IS, at least for digicams. >I doubt we'll ever see this for film; it would be much harder to >implement, and >it's too late in the game for film. Never say never... Kyocera (Contax) made an SLR that autofocused with manual focus lenses (the bizzarre AX) by moving the film plane to and fro. I would imagine you could have an entire floating "carrier" inside the camera body that moved the film plane and everything attached to it (takeup spool, film cassette, pressure plate, etc.) antisympathetically to the camera movement... presto, IS with non-IS lenses! Engineering flexible drives to handle film advance and rewind would be tough; it's probably easier to flex the wires attached to a CCD or CMOS imager. When I sit and think about it, lenses could be a lot simpler and cheaper if the camera focused by moving the imager back and forth, AX style. Who knows what the future will bring... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Many times I have thought of buying an AX. Nice camera, anyone who has not should check it out. Just to see it. Real neat. Fast to. I wish canon would have done something similar with the 1dMkII, it would have had me part with a substantial amount of money. On the other hand, anyone know when the 70-30 DO IS is coming out? Robert W. Meyers Web's Own Group * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
