On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:25:54 +0000, Tim Mitchell wrote:
>In article <3bf0f7e6.5381912@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, Neuman -
>Ruether writes
>>On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:57:22 +0000, Tim Mitchell
>> wrote:
>>>If you're talking about a digital image stabiliser, or digital zoom
>>>(which I don't think the GL1 has either, at least I have never found
>>>it), then it is true.

>>Actually, not necessarily...
>>The DIS used by all Sony Mini-DV cameras does not reduce
>>image resolution when engaged...

>This presumably means that the camera does not normally use some of the
>ccd?

It does - but the pixel-count for the image area remains
high with the stabilizer engaged, and does not change with
it turned off... Panasonic camcorders used to use a normal
pixel-count CCD, which looked OK with the stabilizer off,
but when turned on, it looked like digital-zoom, and the
angle of view decreased (in other words, it affected image
quality quite negatively, and was therefore almost always
worthless; the Sony one-chipper picture lookes the same
with/without the stabilizer engaged, with the one exception
of the particular light level area where the 1/100th second
shutter speed engaged vs. the 1/60th off forces the gain
to near maximum, reducing color saturation and increasing
"grain"...