Anti Shake

The main reason I bought the Sony Alpha A100 digital camera was due to it having image stabilisation built into the camera body. This feature should compensate for my aging and shaking hands, and give me camera shake free images. This is a good asset to have with camera shake being the number one reason for poor quality images.

Dipton Wood - Northumberland

Above is an example of an image which has benefited due to incamera AS, which Sony calls SSS (Super Steady Shot). This photograph was taken using a 28mm lens and had an exposure of 1/8th of a second at F2. Without anti shake the image would have been very blurred due to camera shake.

Pentax and Olympus also have their version of incamera anti shake systems, whereas the two leading camera manufactures Canon and Nikon prefer to have anti shake built into individual lenses. Which is better? Well below is a link to an article which compares the two different forms of AS.

http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/4615/image-stabilization-special-stop-the-shake.html

The article states that in lens AS is more effective, but in my opinion incamera AS is the winner, with it working with every lens you attach to your camera. I‘m not happy with my Sony camera for a multitude of reasons, but inbody AS has benefited my photography on numerous occasions.