It seems to me that making a camera for an especially talented
handholder certainly limits your customers. Some other very fine
photographers admit that they shake to much to hand hold successfully
using the usual rule. And I doubt Mr. Iwago is that stable shooting
from a boat. IS/VR is an additional tool that is useful to anyone, I
think. The power issue is true, but I don't understand the reluctance
to increase battery size.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Aug 29, 2006, at 1:33 PM, khen lim wrote:
> At Olympus - and I do share the same viewpoint - we are constantly
> debating
> over the necessity of IS from a true photographic sense because we
> have pro
> users who tell us that they don't need them and one of them is a
> powerful
> stalwart user, Mitsuaki Iwago who continues to handhold the Zuiko
> Digital
> 150/2 with absolutely no problems at all and his images are
> stunning to say
> the least. The issue we are fighting against is that one should
> learn how to
> handle camera+lens as most have been doing for decades prior to the
> digital
> era.
> Another very strong issue at Olympus is that IS draws power very badly
> particularly for the in-lens design types and marginally less for
> CCD-shift
> types.
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