On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:29:19 GMT, "Evan Mann" wrote:

>David,
>
>By bright light, did you mean outdoor, bright sun lighting only, or would
>adequately lighted indoor environments also pertain to the below comment you
>made? (Trying to get a rough idea of some situations of what classified
>'low light' that the Canon OIS would be the most favored option)

Depends on the sensitivity of the particular model, but in
general, exterior daylight shots look identical with EIS on
or off, short the stabilization; interiors have better color
and less "gain-grain" with it off, or with OIS...

>Also, on top of this. If perhaps you may know the answer.... If we kept
>things constant, by putting a D8 camera (Sony) versus a Canon DV camera (or
>even a Sony DV camera) into the same exact lighting conditions that were
>favorable to both, and put them on a tripod so image stabilization wouldn't
>be something to worry about, would the quality of image from the DV cameras
>be distinguishably better then D8?

In general, yes. The D8's have so far been based on late,
rather poorer than in the past, Hi-8 models...
If only Sony had based a D8 on the TR700 or TR101...!;-)

>> Bottom line: in bright light, Sony
>> EIS is fine and indistinguishable from OIS in
>> operation; in low light, its negative aspects show
>> as similar to the effects of too much gain increase.