I seem to remember Minolta branded AF binoculars on the market several years back. Hadn't remembered that 'til now, and that may be due to their lack of acceptance.(?)
Jack --- Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2006, at 12:55 PM, George Sinos wrote: > > > 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. > > Interestingly, the very first still camera ever to offer anti-shake > technology was a point and shoot film camera sold some years ago by > Nikon. Like most of Nikon's point and shoot film cameras, it was > actually made by a company called Goko. Surprising that it took so > long for others to jump on the bandwagon. > > Long before this little point and shoot, image stabilization was > available to professional video and motion picture film shooters in a > > lens called the Gyrozoom. It used a completely mechanical system > with an optical wedge in the light path at the rear of the lens > physically connected to very small bi-directional gyroscopes. This > system worked very well and some amazing news footage was shot with > it, as well as parts of some feature films. The only power required > was the minimal amount to spin the gyros. > > Vivitar worked on a project in the 80s to use a similar system but > with inertial dampers instead of gyros to reduce complexity and > remove the need for batteries. They prototyped both some image > stabilized zoom lenses and some binoculars. I was involved as a > consultant on that project, and never understood why the management > would not give the project the green light to go into production. > Maybe being ten years ahead of your time just wasn't Vivitar's thing. > > Bob > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
