Suhit Gupta
10-16-2007, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2007/10/15/Image-Stabilisation-The-Good-The-Bad-And-The-Noisy/p1' target='_blank'>http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2007/10/15/Image-Stabilisation-The-Good-The-Bad-And-The-Noisy/p1</a><br /><br /></div><i>"I've been writing about technology in one form or another for well over a decade, and in the past six years I've used and reviewed maybe 500 different digital cameras, but I am still often astonished by the level of advanced technology that can be squeezed into a small portable device and sold for just a couple of hundred pounds. Sensor resolution has increased by a factor of ten since 2001, and features such as automatic red-eye detection and removal, advanced noise reduction and even face recognition are now commonplace in the more advanced cameras. With huge budgets being invested in digital camera research and development, the major manufacturers are fiercely competitive, knowing that the first one to the market with a new technology can have a decisive advantage."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/5740-DimageA2.jpg" /><br /><br />We have talked about how Image Stabilization is an extremely useful feature, especially when you go with very high zoom or with very slow shutter speeds. However, one of the best thing this article points out is on Page 4, titled 'the Snake-Oil'. There are a number of cameras that will be branded with Image Stabilization but actually are selling an "anti-shake" system which simply is talking about high sensitivity ISO. I don't see the exact correlation but I guess this is a marketing gimmick. So for all you new camera buyers, please be careful of the difference.