Olympus TG-4, a compact camera that has a system

[Antonio Correia]

Cheers Ted !

[Manfred M]

Here is an Olympus video demonstrating their 5-axis stabilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSj5...ature=youtu.be

It seems to be identical to what Panasonic has done. I had not realized that Olympus has (finally?) added in-lens stabilization to some of their lenses.. This really looks a bit like over the top complexity as both the sensor movement (3-axis) and in-lens floating element (2-axis) movement have to work in synch. The risk of this not always working optimally seems to be the weakness of this approach.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you for the link Manfred !

[xpatUSA]

thank you for the link Manfred !

+1

[dem]

I don't know much about Olympus cameras either but here are my thoughts as a physicist. You need 6 independent coordinates to uniquely define the position and orientation of a rigid body - 3 cartesian and 3 rotational. One of the cartesian coordinates will be responsible for moving the sensor along the optical axis. We do not want that because this will change focus distance. If we fix this coordinate to keep our subject in focus, there will be 5 coordinates left for IBIS to worry about. I am not saying that the Olympus marketing department has not double counted anything but there is definitely room for 5 axis. I will be suprised to see a 6-axis (unless it is a drone) or a 7-axis IBIS in a camera but you just can't underestimate the creativity of people in marketing.