Well its here and awesome!


The arsenal, new lens and hood on the left, 350D and kit lens on the right.

Now a quick set of shots:


18


55


55 IS


250 IS

Unfortunately lost my usual hosting so cant upload the full size images stuck with photobucket.

yeah thats right for the IS, pretty impressive bit of kit.

£220 from castle cameras in bmouth, hood was extra though not that i need it really.

From what I understand you either have image stabilisation built into the camera body or the lens; its either the sensor that is moved very small amounts or the lens that is suspended using electromagnets that counteracts the movement.

i have no idea how it works, its built into the lenses on this nothing in the camera at all, can hear it clicking and whirring when its on though, uses USM (ultra sonic motors) for focus as well, very cool

My Pentax has gyro sensor whatsits built in to the camera body which adjust the position of the sensor to compensate for shake. The advantage is that it works for any lens and can also compensate for rotation as well as up/down/left/right.

I got the impression in the past that the Canon and Nikon systems work off the AF sensors, allowing the system to work with older bodies, but I dont know if thats accurate. However it decides what to do, those systems have a movable lens element which does the actual compensation.

However it works, IS/VR/SR/OS is the best thing since sliced bread. Having had it on my K10D for a couple of years theres no way Id be without it.

so when you say the lens elements move do they try to detect and counter movement by the camera (shaking hands or whatever)?

Theres a pair of angular velocity sensors mounted on the lens that detect the shake on the horizontal and vertical axis and adjust the lens elements very slightly to compensate.

Ive got a 100-300mm lens that I occasionally use hand held, entirely depends on available light though.