On 12/16/06 6:03 AM, "Peter Loveday", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree it can (and does) do amazing things; my query was more whether mine > was working reliably. I was simpy trying to determine if my camera may have > a fault or not, I was not trying to attack the Pentax SR implementaion, or > imply that your K10D didn't work in any way. I have not been following this thread except first few, as I thought discussion was becoming too academic. Sounds like you are feeling guilty of something you thought you did as a favour (and out of curiosity perhaps?), and probably found a weird act of SR or something. When I first got Canon IS lenses years ago (this definitely out of curiosity :-), I was so curious that I did all sorts of test, mostly in extreme conditions, like swaying camera beyond normal "shake" etc. I do not think it was any torture test, and I bet almost everyone must have done something like that. The fact of the matter is, IS or SR, it is to minimize the effect of camera "shake", particularly in longer FL. Shaking in real world means very slight movement of shooters' hands or body. I do not think it's meant to save for real trembling etc, although I shot many from moving cars and many of them came out fine. So far, I find IS and SR work just fine. If you sway your camera beyond the range of usual camera "shake" for which these systems are designed, I am sure they get stuck in one side or other. I bet your camera is working just fine. The only way to confirm it is shoot something or in a condition when camera shake normal becomes an issue with and w/o SR, like Bob S. and others did. I am sure you will see noticeable difference. But you are really steady, you might feel SR might not be working. The effect is most profound in longer FL of course. Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
