Here’s some interesting news coming from the digital photography front. Canon announced earlier this week the development of the Hybrid Image Stabilizer (IS) – the “world’s first optical image stabilization technology that compensates for both angle camera shake and shift camera shake” designed for interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens. This new IS will be featured in new SLR camera lens coming from Canon before the end of the year.

The new Hybrid IS technology optimally compensates for both angle and shift camera shake. Angle shake and shift camera shake is depicted as follows:

According to Canon:

“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.”

Canon is still working on the commercialization and inclusion of these lens into a wide range of products but you can expect something to come out for the SLR market before the end of the year.

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