Why Aren't Shake Warnings Based on Camera Movement?

"jim evans" wrote in message
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I learned today that the "shake" warning on Canon cameras is simply
based on reaching shutter speeds less than 1/60th second.

The old 1/60th rule is based on an average person with steady hands
using a 35mm camera with a normal lens. It applied to cameras pressed
against the face, using good practice. I'm an old guy with shaky
hands and with a submini camera you pretty much have to hold it out
from your body and use the LCD display, sometimes at 100mm equivalent.
The 1/60th rule is meaningless under such conditions.

Does someone know why they don't base the shake warning on data from
the IS system combined with shutter speed and focal length?

-- jim

Makes me wonder how we ever managed back in the olde days, no autofocus,
autoexposure, auto color balance, antishake, did I miss anything?

There is a reason they call the shift warning on some manual cars "the
idiot light."

"Rudy Benner (All_Thumbs)" wrote in message
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"jim evans" wrote in message
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I learned today that the "shake" warning on Canon cameras is simply
based on reaching shutter speeds less than 1/60th second.

The old 1/60th rule is based on an average person with steady hands
using a 35mm camera with a normal lens. It applied to cameras pressed
against the face, using good practice. I'm an old guy with shaky
hands and with a submini camera you pretty much have to hold it out
from your body and use the LCD display, sometimes at 100mm equivalent.
The 1/60th rule is meaningless under such conditions.

Does someone know why they don't base the shake warning on data from
the IS system combined with shutter speed and focal length?

-- jim

Makes me wonder how we ever managed back in the olde days, no autofocus,
autoexposure, auto color balance, antishake, did I miss anything?

You missed no rangefinder.
Jim

Jim wrote:

Makes me wonder how we ever managed back in the olde days, no autofocus,
autoexposure, auto color balance, antishake, did I miss anything?

You missed no rangefinder.
Jim


There were rangefinders in the 1930's or doesn't this qualify as the
olden days?

--
Neil
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"Rudy Benner (All_Thumbs)" wrote in message
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Makes me wonder how we ever managed back in the olde days, no autofocus,
autoexposure, auto color balance, antishake, did I miss anything?

Yeah - the old cameras were heavier, no plastic. Today people just cry when
they have to carry anything heavier than a thought.