Canon EOS 6D: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Stabilizing the Situation

If you purchased your camera with one of the new Image Stabilizer (IS) lenses, you already own a great tool to squeeze two stops of exposure out of your camera when shooting without a tripod (Figure 7.5). Typically, the average person can handhold their camera down to about 1/60 of a second before blurriness results due to hand shake. As the length of the lens is increased (or zoomed), the ability to handhold at slow shutter speeds (1/60 and slower) and still get sharp images is further reduced.

Figure 7.5. The IS feature on your lens could mean the difference between a sharp image and one that is full of noise from a ...