On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Walter Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if it might not be easier than one might suspect. A few days > ago, I saw a drawing of the Pentax image stabilization system demonstrating > its use of electromagnets on the sensor to achieve it. I can't help > thinking it might be a fairly easy trick for them to use that field to tilt > and shift the sensor on demand by electronically manipulating the current to > the electromagnets. >
You are actually right, after all the shake reduction already has the sensor floating and shifting in a two dimensional plane, it is simply a matter of making it move in three dimensions. Having seen disassembled units in the factory, I can see the simplicity to it. The catch is, for me, is that the camera becomes 'deeper' something like a small 645D to allow room for the sensor to tilt (may not be a bad thing) and added bonus of something else failing (now that is a bad thing)... -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
