5 axis IBIS coming to next Canon EOS R series camera [CR2]

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And why do I care about Nikon?

Simple: because they can IBIS and Canon cannot (yet) ...

i don't care what you care about. I just pointed out in this ongoing discussion that not only Sony but also Nikon and Fujifilm and most other makers are offering in-body stabilization because it has value for most of their customers and works well. By itself and In parallel with IS in lenses, when properly implemented.

Hope Canon gets their act together on this one as well.
 
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Won't all that movement increase the likelihood that the sensor will get out of alignment after a number of years?

Or even after a couple rides across the parking lot in a Pelican case (w/ wheels)?

I really do wonder about durability. Unlike a couple elements inside a lens that are moving in a single plain (I'm guessing this is the case, else they'd claim more 'axes') The sensor moving in every direction possible just sounds reckless. Sorry to rain on the parade, but I want mine nailed down.
 
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Simple: because they can IBIS and Canon cannot (yet) ...

i don't care what you care about. I just pointed out in this ongoing discussion that not only Sony but also Nikon and Fujifilm and most other makers are offering in-body stabilization because it has value for most of their customers and works well. By itself and In parallel with IS in lenses, when properly implemented.

Hope Canon gets their act together on this one as well.
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As I and many on this thread have pointed out, there are problems with IBIS.
 
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Sorry to rain on the parade, but I want mine nailed down.

Maybe it’s just me, but I imagine if you can float and actuate a sensor such that it reacts in near real time to random input in 5 degrees of freedom, you can figure out how to put it back where it started.

A kinematic mount is one such solution. Hardstops that respectively restrain 1-, 2-, and 3-degrees of freedom will repeatably return to the same location and orientation. You have to shim them in place at assembly, but that’s no different from a traditional fixed sensor.
 
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Simple: because they can IBIS and Canon cannot (yet) ...

i don't care what you care about. I just pointed out in this ongoing discussion that not only Sony but also Nikon and Fujifilm and most other makers are offering in-body stabilization because it has value for most of their customers and works well. By itself and In parallel with IS in lenses, when properly implemented.

Hope Canon gets their act together on this one as well.

Perhaps with regard to IBIS we should differentiate between "doing the right thing" and "doing the thing right"!!
 
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Or even after a couple rides across the parking lot in a Pelican case (w/ wheels)?

I really do wonder about durability. Unlike a couple elements inside a lens that are moving in a single plain (I'm guessing this is the case, else they'd claim more 'axes') The sensor moving in every direction possible just sounds reckless. Sorry to rain on the parade, but I want mine nailed down.
Canon introduced the Canon Macro EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM in 2009. 4 axis in lens image stabilization (hybrid).
 
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As I and many on this thread have pointed out, there are problems with IBIS.

and there are also problems with lens-IS, sensors, AF systems, cameras and lenses, numerous problems!

the choice is yours ... either fret over (potential) problems and (possible) side-effects in some specifiic use scenarios ... or stop worrying and enjoy the benefits .., and switch it off, when not useful.

If and when "innovative Canon" finally comes up with IBIS. Might take them another few years, who knows.

IBIS is far more useful and beneficial for many more users than (4k or any other) video recording in stills cameras.
 
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Wasn't it you saying in lens IS was no longer necessary due to IBIS?

No, not exactly. With current tech I consider IS still a good thing for *tele lenses* ... plus IBIS in addition for something like an extra 1 or 2 stops of stabilization.
For shorter focal lengths lenses - eg a 50mm f/1.2 - I'd be willing to take without IS if body has a good IBIS.

Overall I am always in favor of avoiding duplicated items/cost with each and every lens, when it can also be done once per camera body. Even more so, when moving mechanical shenanigans are involved. :)

So ideally: solid state camera body, with the following functions "really right" integrated:
* Conversion of incoming photons into electrons and their subsequent processing and storage [sensor, CPUs, imaging pipeline, memory cards, software ]
* Blocking/Unblocking of incoming photons [aka "shutter"]
* Variable size round opening for incoming photons [ aka "aperture/iris"]
* Effective, automatic bundling of incoming photons precisely on sensor plane [aka "AF system"]
* Effective, automatic stabilization of image on sensor and in viewfinder/display [aka "IBIS"]
* Control points for those items [aka rings, dials, wheels, knobs, buttons, sliders, touchscreens, menu system etc.] ideally combined with status information displays. For example, instead of a "dumb top display" I'd prefer a fully customizable, combined control/information element. On camera body, instead of adding yet another "control ring" to each single lens!

For example something like this ...
Mirrorless-camera-concept-2.jpeg

https://photorumors.com/2012/03/23/interesting-mirrorless-camera-concept/

But it will probably be many more years until "innovative Canon" finally "invents" and drop feeds those "innovations" to us customers..
 
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No, it isn’t. This has been tested over the years.

I ran a commercial film lab for quite some time. I was also a color expert, involved in using, teaching, and evolving color standards, and testing methodologies. Admittedly, that was a while ago.

Still, some things don’t change. We could get a half dozen experts looking at the same test image, and while all of us were excellent in color perception, we still saw colors slightly differently. Nevertheless, we could always agree on what we were seeing, whether it was color, sharpness, or other deviations.

That is because the image is up there, in front of us. As long as the individuals have the training, knowledge and professionalism to work together, it’s not a problem.

Audio is a very different matter. It’s fleeting, for one thing. There’s no way we can have the same note hanging in the air. Because of that, even prosessionals can disagree about what they hear. Though real professionals, not just self described ones (and I’ve come across too many) can still find common ground, and usually agree about overall sound.

Thats pretty much a classic recipe to be vulnerable to cognitive biasses. If you'd acknowledged that claims without blind testing are vulnerable to error, Id take you more seriously, but you're arguing from an 'expert' perspective instead.

Its not like its been impossible to have highly stabilised images in the past after all, it just needed other techniques.
 
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Maybe it’s just me, but I imagine if you can float and actuate a sensor such that it reacts in near real time to random input in 5 degrees of freedom, you can figure out how to put it back where it started.

But that's another mechanism, in a camera type that is moving away from mechanisms. Plus the gyros for all the axes.

I think IBIS is great in principle but I'm worried that it introduces a major points of failure for the body. If you trawl the 'spares or repairs' listings on eBay there are lots of lenses with failed IS, including ones that can't AF when the IS is active.
 
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...if you can float and actuate a sensor such that it reacts in near real time to random input in 5 degrees of freedom, you can figure out how to put it back where it started.

Yeah, I don't doubt Canon can pull it off—just makes me nervous. It's reassuring that they're not going to throw out some half-baked solution solely for marketing purposes.

But ultimately it seems to me like a giant leap in complexity to solve a problem that barely exists. I know not all lenses can correct 5 stops of shake, but many can—many more will as time goes on I suspect. And I've got a tripod…..
 
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Thats pretty much a classic recipe to be vulnerable to cognitive biasses. If you'd acknowledged that claims without blind testing are vulnerable to error, Id take you more seriously, but you're arguing from an 'expert' perspective instead.

Its not like its been impossible to have highly stabilised images in the past after all, it just needed other techniques.
Blind testing is particularly difficult for colours.
 
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Do you believe that Canon's implementation of IBIS will be a technical failure?
As an aside here, I have an Olympus E-510. It got used a lot! It went on lots of hikes and canoe trips because it was so much lighter than my Canon gear. It had a rough life. It was also the first Olympus camera to have IBIS. It still works! I know that this is only one data point and that one can not form conclusions about the technology from it, but it is safe to say that: A) it has survived 11 years and still works, and B) whatever comes out now from Canon WILL be better.
 
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Thats pretty much a classic recipe to be vulnerable to cognitive biasses. If you'd acknowledged that claims without blind testing are vulnerable to error, Id take you more seriously, but you're arguing from an 'expert' perspective instead.

Its not like its been impossible to have highly stabilised images in the past after all, it just needed other techniques.

We work very hard to not have those biases. It’s why a group of experts makes these decisions. Of course, you can deny everything, if you like. How do you think we arrive at these standards? Groups of experts in the field work them out. The technical work needs to be understood, and put in perspective. We do double blind testing too. How do you think this is all done, even in the companies working on it?
 
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But that's another mechanism, in a camera type that is moving away from mechanisms. Plus the gyros for all the axes.

It would be the same mechanism, presumably. I believe Sony and Olympus float the sensor in a magnetic field. The same field would be used to return it. Hard stops are robust and simple; we are talking about 6 machined parts.
 
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Yeah, I don't doubt Canon can pull it off—just makes me nervous. It's reassuring that they're not going to throw out some half-baked solution solely for marketing purposes.

But ultimately it seems to me like a giant leap in complexity to solve a problem that barely exists. I know not all lenses can correct 5 stops of shake, but many can—many more will as time goes on I suspect. And I've got a tripod…..
From a marketing perspective, tripods are a very hard sell to a huge part of the market. They are indispensable in some situations, but very inconvenient in many.

When using a tripod, even lens IS isn't needed, so they aren't 100% relevant to the discussion of reducing camera shake for handheld situations.

I'm glad you get along well without much need for IS. Ten years ago I felt that way. But as I've aged, and as sensors have become more unforgiving of shake with higher resolutions, I'm grateful for IS on prime lenses and the few non-White zooms that have it. I like it on the 16-35 f/4 IS, and need it on the 85mm f/1.4L IS (which is a big reason I traded in my 85mm f/1.2L). It helps. It works. And, for better or worse, videographers are swaying the market towards more and more IS.

Most fairly experienced photographers understand it is harder to compensate for shake within the body as opposed to within the lens. We get it. Lectures regarding the difficulties are a lot of wasted breath/typing, in my opinion, because if Canon produces a FF body that has 3-stop IBIS to help those of us with current ef 24-70mm f/2.8L II lenses, or who want a little help with the new rf 50mm f/1.2L, we will jump right on it, or maybe wait for reviews and some early adopters to let us know how things are working out.

This is why I am surprised by so many posts that seem to be intended to prove it can't work. Fine. Such posts are predicting Canon will either not offer IBIS, or will be embarrassed by its ineffectiveness once they do. But many of these same posters have cheered 75MP sensors without worrying about noise!

If Canon offers it, really, how likely is IBIS to be an ineffective failure?

If worried, don't be an early adopter. I don't plan to be, but within six months or so, with good reviews and no widespread reports of breakdowns, I'd love a robust, pro-level mirrorless FF body with IBIS.
 
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But ultimately it seems to me like a giant leap in complexity to solve a problem that barely exists. I know not all lenses can correct 5 stops of shake, but many can—many more will as time goes on I suspect. And I've got a tripod…..
Your inference that carrying around a tripod at all times and in all situations is practical is frankly pretty absurd. A good tripod is large, even when collapsed, heavy, and draws a lot of attention.

And setting up a tripod to take a shot can take anywhere from about a minute to several minutes. Holding the camera relatively still and taking a shot takes a few seconds. I'd much rather just have a camera or lens that can stabilize itself instead of having to carry around and set up a tripod every time I need an extra stop or two of shutter speed.

This doesn't even get into places where having a tripod just simply isn't even allowed.

Tripods have their time and place. But saying that they're just as practical or convenient as having stabilization in a camera or lens is ridiculous.
 
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