Which camera maker has the best stabilisation system?
June 20, 2021
Thanks to lens and in-camera stabilisation, a tripod isn’t quite as essential as it used to be, but which camera maker has the best system? Angela Nicholson reveals all as part of our Nobody Does it Better series.
Photography is full of ‘rules’ and guidelines and one of the best known is that you should use a shutter speed that is the reciprocal of the lens focal length to ensure a sharp image that’s not spoiled by camera shake. So with a 100mm lens, for example, you should use a shutter speed of at least 1/100sec.
The switch to digital photography and the popularity of sub-full frame sensors mixed up that guide a bit as suddenly the focal length magnification factor had to be applied. So, for example, instead of saying that you need to use a shutter speed of at least 1/100sec with a 100mm lens,