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Ignorant question: at what point does the limiting factor for useful zoom become stabilization rather than optics? I looked briefly into ridiculous-zoom-level c
by mrec 7y ago
Ignorant question: at what point does the limiting factor for useful zoom become stabilization rather than optics? I looked briefly into ridiculous-zoom-level compacts a while back and consensus seemed to be that while the tech specs look good on paper you're just going to get a blurry mess unless you put it on a tripod, at which point you've lost the main advantage of a compact.
- baybal2 7y agoif done properly, software stabilisation can genuinely rival hardware
- hellisothers 7y agoI find as believable as software zoom can rival optical zoom, do you have some example?
- jacobolus 7y agoFor what angle of view? If you are e.g. hand-holding a camera with a super-telephoto 1° angle of view, there’s nothing software stabilization is going to be able to do when your small wiggles make what you were looking at before violently jump out of the frame.
- baybal2 7y agoYes, you got it. It's not a problem for narrow field, but at some point you the sacrifice of frame area gets too big