I used to have a Kenyon Labs Gyro-Stabilizer that
attached to the tripod socket and steadied the camera
motion in two axes. The gyro (KS-4 - with larger
6 and 8 models available) was not heavy, but the battery
was, and it took quite a while to run the gyro up to speed,
and the gyro was too noisy to use in quiet conditions,
so I sold it...

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:21:29 -0500, "Pieter Litchfield" wrote:

>I ain't no tech, but as I recall Hollywood used gyroscopic stabilization
>devices for years.

>"Carl Bevil" wrote in message
>news:CFN375881755316088@news.mindspring.com...
>> Hey all. I was thinking the other day (uh-oh ;-) and was wondering why
>image
>> stabilization technology was inside the lens as opposed to making a device
>> that did the image stabilization that you could attach to your camera.
>>
>> Actually, I was thinking this device could screw into the tripod mount;
>this
>> way if you have a large lens with its own tripod mount you could move this
>> device onto it. And, this device could be made by a third-party
>manufacturer
>> and work with any brand of camera, as long as it had a standard tripod
>mount
>> on it.
>>
>> What do people think of this? Has it already been done, and I just never
>> heard of it? It seems silly to buy several IS lenses, paying for the IS
>in
>> each one, when you might be able to pay for IS once and use it with almost
>all
>> your lenses.
>>
>> Carl