Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:34:30 GMT, "Harvey"
wrote:


"junktin" wrote in message
news:TeASd.24583$NN.20453@edtnps89...

Does anyone have practical experience using a consumer grade digital
camera with high zoom and Image Stabilization on a sailboat (taking
shots of distant scenery or other boats)?




The image stabilization is for dampening out vibration due to shaky hands by
using gyroscopic stabilization through the use of acceleration detectors and
linear motors in the lens or camera. In my opinion it will not compensate
at all for the action of a sailboat if you expect it to be used to track a
subject as you pitch and roll. It will compensate for some pounding and
your shaky hands. Of course you are putting an expensive camera in jeopardy
of being damaged by the water.


I agree, but it never occurred to me to mount the camera on the boat.
I always use it hand-held and try to keep the shot framed. Thus the
camera motion is aking to hand shake, not to the larger pitch and roll
movements of the boat.


Yes, I wouldn't be mounting it directly to the boat, or using a tripod
on the rolling boat, so my body's corrections would damp out a lot of
the motion of the boat. However I suspect what remains is still too much
for the I.S. to cope with.