Canon Hybrid Image Stabilizer

Canon always develops the best digital imaging products. They plan to finish the development of Hybrid Image Stabilizer (IS), the world's first optical image stabilization technology that compensates for both angle camera shake and shift camera shake before the end of 2009. Unfortunately, as of now the technology will be featured only in interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens. Nevertheless, this advanced technology should be in Canon PowerShot digital cameras someday.

The new Hybrid IS technology incorporates an angular velocity sensor that detects the extent of angle-based shaking and is found in all previous Canon optical image stabilizer mechanisms, as well as a new acceleration sensor that determines the amount of shift-based camera shake. Hybrid IS also employs a newly developed algorithm that synthesizes information from the two sensors to make optimal adjustments, thereby dramatically enhancing the effects of image stabilization during shooting, including macro shooting, which had proven difficult for conventional image stabilization technologies.

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