June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
13h 6m
English
Robert J. Kerr
If you want steady pictures, use a heavy camera. Unfortunately, today’s small format camcorders fly in the face of this general rule of thumb; they’re so light, the slightest external vibration can affect the quality of their images.
Enter the image stabilizer. Developed specifically to address this problem, these nifty gadgets now grace many small, lightweight camcorders. In this chapter, we’ll examine the types of image stabilization systems and how they work.
I suppose that even the cave artists back at the dawn of pre-history had trouble freezing images of fast-moving antelope in their minds before they attempted to draw the beasts ...
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