How Lens Stabilization Helps With Handheld Photography
How Lens Stabilization Helps With Handheld Photography
A moving lens element or sensor can offset some of the photographer's hand movement.
Gyroscopes sense angular movement, and the camera shifts an optical element or the sensor to compensate. That can preserve sharper detail at slower shutter speeds for a still subject.
Stabilization cannot stop a person or object moving independently through the frame. Different lenses and cameras may also coordinate their systems differently.
Take several frames of a stationary subject at the same shutter speed and compare the proportion that look sharp. A single successful frame can overstate how reliably a setting works.
