And when it breaks you'll probably have to get a new
one rather thna just sending it off to be cleaned. The
more complicated lenses get I imagine the more
imossible they are to fix if things like fungus happen
to them. Again give me manual focus all metal and
glass lenses over IS, AF servo controlled supersonic
motor "space age" plastic lenses anyday.
Mark Lloyd
--- "Daniel J. Mitchell"
<DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The image stabilized 28-135mm zoom is an excellent
> choice
> > for a first lens.
>
> 'image stabilized', I think to myself? I know that
> exists in camcorders but
> they have a whole bunch of digital processing to
> remove the shake.. how
> could this possibly work on a lens made of
> glass+metal?
>
> From the Canon web page: "The IS system is composed
> of a pair of gyro
> sensors to detect vertical and horizontal motion and
> a microprocessor that
> compensates for it by shifting special IS lens
> elements in parallel with the
> perceived movement. "
>
> Okay, now that is _ridiculous_. 360 ball bearings,
> pfaugh -- gyroscopes,
> that's where the _real_ overkill engineering is.
> (only $469.95 at B&H, which
> is less than I expected, I must admit).
>
> -- dan (just buy some beta-blockers, sheesh..
> <grin> )
>
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