Comments on: New Canon Patent Finds

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:18:25 +0000

#2 with the US patent body because they like to file their patents there, but way, way down the list with other patent bodies like WIPO.

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:52:15 +0000

Just because the drawing shows an SLR does not mean that the patent only applies to SLRs.

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:44:10 +0000

Sure, but it’s often not practical to carry and deploy a tripod or even a monopod, and IS is a godsend for hand-holding in low light. And while I agree a fast lens would generally be preferable to the equivalent level of IS, that’s just not possible; consider that modern IS gets you around 3 – 4 stops equivalent stability whereas a fast lens is perhaps 2 stops faster (also while the additional bokeh is welcome more often than not, sometimes you want more DOF.)

By: Wuck Chestfall

Wuck Chestfall — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:54:05 +0000

Well trolled, sir. Hats off to you.

By: John Brunbjerg

John Brunbjerg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:14:28 +0000

Holy cow…..
Finally Canon admit their IS-system sucks.
In-lens IS can and will never have an edge over sensor stabilization, as in-lens only works for those lenses having the IS, but not all the other lenses one have.
This is the same debate as what is the worlds best camere ? It is the camera you have in you hand/on your body whenever a photo opportunity appears.
I see Canon people turning off their IS because as they say and i quote: “it only sucks more power and is too slow to react, getting too many blurred photos with it turned on because i shoot before IS is ready”

And Canon is in front of inventions ? Hey….how many Kodak Patents do they pay for ?
Who made AF ? And you can carry on…

One up the thread made a move from Canon to Sony…You shouldnt worry, you are among a really nice group of people…and you can always claim better colors than Canon-users, you even have autofocus Zeiss lenses.

Luckily i uses not only one brand of cameras…so i can luckily compare :-)

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:18:00 +0000

Neither Canon nor Nikon have any DSLR using in-body image stabilisation. How can one be leading the other in that respect?

Canon has no production camera at all with sensor-shift image stabilisation, but Nikon put it in the Coolpix P90 a year ago. The fact that it is not in any of their DSLRs has nothing to do with the technical feasibility of the system–who would doubt that they know how to do it? They are the dominant players, so they can afford to delay the introduction of the system in an effort to sell their more expensive IS/VR lenses.

However, it is becoming harder and harder for them to release new cameras that have significant enough improvements over the previous generation to entice existing owners to upgrade. When they run out of other ideas (video, articulating screens, improved ISO and DR, etc.), they’ll eventually have to introduce in-body stabilisation to make their sales. They will do that last of all, because that will hurt lens sales, but as soon as one does it the other will follow immediately. It would not surprise me if they both have the system ready to go, so that they can add it to the very next model they announce if their competitor blinks first.

By: Jan Cas

Jan Cas — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:20:11 +0000

Noting new it seems. In-Camera Stabilisation in DSLR’s is also not new. In 2004 Konica-Minolta released the 7D with in-camera stabilisation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konica_Minolta_Maxxum_7D

By: tyson

tyson — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:32:50 +0000

but canon is leading Nikon, the only other major SLR player in the current market. Thats good enough for me!

By: German

German — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:56:04 +0000

Yes please.. yes.. just do it!. xD
I love the idea, I would like in-body IS.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:57:07 +0000

…but the list does not include in-body image stabilisation, the topic of the original post. Neither Canon nor Nikon have led the way there.

By: Infographiste

Infographiste — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:59:09 +0000

Noooo! I just left Canon because I wanted to use a sensor based image stabilisation system with fast primes! Now that I am with Sony, don’t tell me that Canon will have in-body is now!!!

^^ if I leave Canon one day, it will be for Nikon, but never for sony or others brand, espcially because of few lenses choice

By: Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:25:48 +0000

Uh, yeah… Because you know anything about either one of us. Don’t be ignorant.

And nothing was getting escalated. I was however, interested in why he was saying what he was saying.

By: kubelik

kubelik — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:22:26 +0000

the 10 starving kids part kills me

By: Kape Town

Kape Town — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:23:57 +0000

Just before this escalates any further, I’d like to say neither of you is experienced enough to judge any “chimpers”. Try rolling out twenty prints a week along with monthly editorial deadlines.