Image Stabilisation

BobE

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At the SBS on the London Camera Exchange stand was a Canon man showing off Binos.
One stood on a platform looked through the binos at a steeple or whatever and then the platform vibrated and on pressing a button on the binos the image stabilised.. Very good.
However on returning home I realised that the vibration was more of a buzz like a fast revving engine...
Has anyone actually tried them at sea in a more gentle waveform movement or are they only designed to be used by mobo men?

If any of you are about to go to the showI'd like to hear your comments..
Oh and BTW they are cheaper at 7dayshop.com in Guernsey than the prices at the SBS...
Cheers Bob E..

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Used usm on a camera but not at sea. I found the technology very good. You can even pull off a slightly longer exposure. But no amount of technology will be make the image crisper when you are at sea... I think!

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you are wise to be wary. i have a pair which i find quite useless at sea as the speed and range of self-adjustment does not cope with the amplitude of wave motion so they are just as wobbly as cheap 10x50s. they are great on land or at anchor so are now relegated to birdwatching and we have 7x50s on the boat.

some people claim they are the dog's b.......s but they must have better gimballed necks than me.

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Very interesting..I've a cheap ( very) pair of 7x 50s for waterbourne use and a very old, circa 1940, pair of 7 x 50 Zeiss which comply with canine anatomy. They are only used on land. (SWMBO would shoot me if they were buggered up on board!)
Cheers awaiting other comments Bob E...

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Just what I've found. On land they are excellent, but at sea they are best used as if they were ordinary, non stabililised, bins. For general use they are excellent, but don't expect to be able to pick out detail 5 miles away when you are at sea.

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Thanks for the input but are you saying that they stabilise small or high frequency vibes but not the sort of swaying one gets when looking at a mark or coastline from a moving sailboat?
Cheers Bob E

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As an alternative approach, we've been using the really cheap (£10in the canaries where the in laws live) small binocs of the 7x25 size. They're light enough to help significantly with the shakes, optics are good enough for most purposes, and they are disposible. Each person has a pair, adjusted for him.

Still have a big set on board but I dont know why - they are never used.

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How very shortsighted

Not very nice of you to recommend cheapncheerful binos in a public forum like this. Don't you know there are chandlers out there, worrying about how they're going to make the next payment on the Bentley Mulsanne.

Next thing we know, you'll be telling us that a pencil, a paper chart, and a Portland plotter is just as good a combined 21inch chartplotter and DVD player, a snip at only £7999.95.

Ken (30 year E.German Zeiss Jenoptem 8 x 30s, 25 quid at the time, so that's £0.83 per year so far, and falling).

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