Clever idea, thanks. But I’m at elementary level, and would be happy enough if I didn’t see the camera move when pushing the button.
It’s not all my shots, I’m not that bad! But it is enough of them for me to want to improve.
@Tamas_Papp I agree a possible on screen indication of angular shake amplitude would be extremely useful for practicing. An alternative DIY solution to the laser pointer would be a IMU mounted to the hot shoe and then some sort of indication that can be seen from within the viewfinder. Like colored LEDs hanging in front of the lens.
Should maybe build myself one… Have quite a lot of experience with IMUs after all…
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I’m late to this conversation, but newer Lumix cameras have exactly the feature you seem to be talking about.
I’m not sure how the forum handles video uploads, but this one is small (only 2.5mb).
It’s a view through the viewfinder of my S5 mark 2, with I.S Status Scope selected On.
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Sorry for the awful quality of the video, but it should give you the idea. Three green dot activates at the half shutter press, and shows pitch and yaw motions in real time.
@Thomas_Do, i’m pretty sure all camera functions go through the main processor, and that there are no funtions anywhere that bypass this.
At least Olympus uses a specialized chip for the calculation:
" This single chip, devoted entirely to IS computation and control, is more powerful than the entire CPUs of cameras not too many years ago."
That does of cause not mean that the results are not reported to the main CPU or further processed but I would doubt that because the corrections have to be done very fast.
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This is something like I imagined, thanks for telling me about it, now I looked it up.
In a typical Panasonic fashion, they
- introduced an amazing feature without much fanfare, apparently first in the S1/S1R,
- did not explain what it does in detail so users are still wondering,
- then again, with stealth rivaling a ninja, started putting it in other cameras like the G9ii.
None of the reviews of said cameras I read mention it (or maybe it missed it).
Panasonic must have really great engineers, to survive despite best efforts of their marketing department.
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Yes, that gives you a good approximation of the camera shake while you use the viewfinder. Does it indicate in any way the shake while actually pressing the shutter? Because that is often the main problem. We tend to move the camera while pressing the shutter button.
I used a half-second expsure to hopefully show the scope remains engaged during the exposure itself. It begins tracking at the half-press, I assume because that’s the earliest point in time that the camera knows it’s being aimed at something with purpose.
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To be fair to Panasonic, there are so many features in those cameras, it’s difficult to summarize them. It’s rare to find a reviewer that will highlight details like this. I first heard of it from CameraLabs Gordon Laing.
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Yes, I was just kvetching. In fact I appreciate how Panasonic (and Olympus) cameras are full of computational features and extras like this, exploiting all the capabilities of the hardware.
It’s just that they do such a poor job of explaining and advertising them. Reviewers usually spend little time with a camera and as a rule never read a manual, so many of these great features remain fairly obscure.