shooooooooooooooooot.

IS isnt crucial for still pic but absolutely a must for taking video.

yes for taking pic IS helps alot but i can do without it.

1/10s no need IS la, sap sap water.

i can easily get a sharp pic with lumix tz1 OIS at 1 sec, the longest is 1.5sec handhold, 1.5sec is abit hard tho.


without IS fuji f20 the slowest SS is 1/4s handhold:


both pic 100% crop, check the exif.
fuji without IS i can easily get sharp pics by using the burst mode, hold the camera steadily take 3 pics in a row, at least 1 or 2 is sharp.

disclaimer: thats is without zoom.


at full zoom (focal length:438mm) with my tz1 at x10 optical zoom, i just tried the slowest i can do is around 1/10s.

iso200, 1/10s, 438mm.


This post has been edited by greyPJ: Aug 19 2007, 01:10 PM

no no guys, i think everyone can do it, my secret is using the burst mode, (hold the camera steadily, press the shuttur button down and take a series of pics consecutively) for that max zoom pic i took 5 pics in a row and there are 2 sharp pics, 3 blurry.

had i taken just 1 shot it would be 99.9% blurry, IS wont help.