Bill and all - I had an interesting "Anti-shake" experience last weekend.
I've mentioned before that I teach photography classes at the local community college. In the basic class I connect the AV output of a point and shoot camera to the classroom video projector. This allows the group to see exactly what I'm doing as I push the buttons. I recently started using the Optio A10 for the demonstrations because it includes most of the features on the cameras people bring into class. As you can imagine, hand holding a little point and shoot while projecting the output on a six foot wide screen magnifies every tiny little hand movement. I was surprised at the effect of pushing the anti-shake preview button. When magnified at this level the movements immediately went from very jerky to smooth as silk. It was a very graphic demonstration. Everyone was an immediate believer in anti-shake (or vibration reduction or image stabilization or whatever your favorite vendor calls it.) I cautioned everyone that what they saw on the screen would be much more drastic than they would see in their photos, but pictures are more powerful than words. I'm sure there were more than a couple that walked out convinced that their next camera must have some form of anti-shake. In a more advanced class, one of the students had the Konica. He showed several shots taken with a 200mm lens, hand-held at 1/15th and 1/30th of a second. He had a couple at 1/4 that were pretty good. That convinced me that I'd have Anti-shake in my next camera body. Now that Sony and Samsung have Anti-shake camera bodies, I'm guessing Canon and Nikon will, at least, need to put it in their entry level bodies. In a couple of years, selling a consumer camera with out Anti-shake will be like trying to sell a camera without auto-focus. Just my opinion, gs <http://georgesphotos.net> On 8/13/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took the big gun down to Don's Photo yesterday to try out the K100D. > It's a nice little camera, though not up to the finish if the istD. > > I was primarily interested in seeing if the antishake worked, so I did a > couple of shots for comparative purposes. <snip> > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/antishake/ > William Robb > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
