Keep your pictures blur-free with Canon’s new image stabilizer
This is definately something I’m going to want. Canon announced late last month the development of a new image stabilizer technology that compensates for both camera angle and shift shake.
What’s really cool about this is they are building into interchangeable SLR lenses.
The new technology dubbed Hybrid IS incorporates an angular velocity sensor that detects the extent of angle-based shaking and is found in all previous Canon optical image stabilizer mechanisms, as well as a new acceleration sensor that determines the amount of shift-based camera shake. Hybrid IS also employs a newly developed algorithm that synthesizes information from the two sensors to make optimal adjustments, thereby dramatically enhancing the effects of image stabilization during shooting, including macro shooting, which had proven difficult for conventional image stabilization technologies.
Canon plans to release lenses by the end of the year.
