On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:32:16 +0100, Roman Svihorik wrote:

>I believe someone will help me to understand something what makes a
>confusion in my gathered information.
>The matter is: If the image stabilization system in Digital 8 camcorder
>(TR-7000 or so) is disabled, will it cause there is more image pixels
>available for picture quality enhancing (I think vertical and horizontal
>resolution or colour balancing, etc.)?
>Or it doesn't effect an image/video quality?

I have not tried the Sony D-8 camcorders, but if their
D-8 stabilizers work the way their mini-DV stabilizers
(both optical and digital) work, the extra pixels are
disgarded (the image area is cropped out of a larger
available CCD area - which is larger to provide room
for the smaller image area to move around in...). The
Panasonic digital stabilizer uses the whole CCD area
when it is off, but crops a smaller area when engaged.
The result is a smaller angle of view and a less sharp
picture when the stabilizer is engaged - much like the
effect of using the mostly-useless digital zoom feature.
Both systems work well when the stabilizers are off,
but the Sony produces a better image when the
stabilizers are on (though the Sony DIS switches the
shutter speed to 1/100th from 1/60th in the ones
I've seen, producing a grainier picture in low light).