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Month: January 2020

Earth’s Rotation Limits IBIS Performance to 6.3 Stops

January 17, 2020January 21, 2020 - David Berryrieser - Leave a Comment

In 2016, Olympus Camera made some buzz in the photo world when they claimed that their new camera was capable of an impressive 6.5 stops of stabilization and that the limiting factor was in fact the rotation of the Earth.  This was rather surprising given the slow and steady improvement since the first such stabilization […]

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Head Weight Ratings Are Useless

January 13, 2020 - David Berryrieser - Leave a Comment

Across camera support equipment, weight rating is the one quantitative metric supplied by the manufacturer that is supposed to be indicative of the performance.  Unfortunately there are no agreed upon standards or definitions as to what this weight rating actually means.  It is simply a made up number by the manufacturer that sounds good to […]

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