George, I probably used improper wording there, as I'm not an engineer, but the idea is that the camera only activates the stabilizer above a certain threshold of movement. When there is no movement above the threshold, there is nothing to counter, so it doesn't start.

Older systems are activated as long as the switch is on. Any vibration such as the mechanical shutter opening, lens AF actuation, lens diaphragm actuation, or mirror slapping up in a dSLR can cause the stabilizer to do something, even if doing so would cause unsharpness.

In any case, there is no blanket statement that can cover the proper on/off state for all cameras and lenses with image stabilizers.

For the benefit of everyone who does not know or forgot, there is an [All Sections] link at the very bottom of each page. It will take you to the sections directory where you can choose to check out anything, provided you're a member and signed in.

They have some softer ballads like Revenant, Show Me the Light,and Crimson Queen, but they don't do easy listening. They are fast becoming known as a world class stadium rock band. I'm sure the people who saw them perform at their school in 2015 are in awe of what they have done.

Their work ethic is off the charts. 110 live shows in 2022, 75 shows plus recording an album in 2023… They go to Japan later this summer for concerts there with some friends in a Japanese band. Several Americans and Europeans already have tickets, plane, and hotel reservations. I'll wait for them to come back to Charlotte...

Coming back around to my point, success (continuous pursuit of a worthy goal) in many ways is a determination sparked by passion and anchored by discipline. If you have the flame to be something, the discipline and determination will follow.

If I could spend the rest of my life interviewing successful people and documenting their journeys, I'd never be bored.

I am fascinated by the life stories of those who found a calling at an early age, stuck with it, and made it their life's purpose. Success in any endeavor has an inspired path and follows certain universal disciplines.

In the past year or so, I've been following the story of a group of sisters who are musicians from Monterrey Mexico. They learned classical piano from early ages — 3, 5, and 6. Their parents, a dentist and an engineer, gave them the video game, Rock Band. Then they asked for real instruments and lessons on them... At 7, 10, and 12, they started playing together.

I love a variety of music from classical, to jazz, to folk, to blues, to rock and roll, to rock, to hard rock, to country, to Motown soul, to reggae. If it's well written and performed well, I'll watch and listen.

I first saw The Warning on YouTube in 2014, at the ages of 9, 12, and 14, playing note-for-note covers of rock songs as if it were perfectly normal for kids whose English is a second language to play and sing them as well as the originals. (Their cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman has over 25.5 MILLION views on YouTube now). But I lost track until last year, when a suggestion showed up in my YouTube feed.

By 2023, they had been a band for almost ten years, had released an EP and two albums independently, and had released a third album on a major US record label. They had been opening concerts for major rock acts in Mexico, the USA, Canada, Argentina, the UK, and Europe, along with playing to sold-out crowds in smaller venues, and much larger crowds at music festivals. Right now, they're on a 19-concert tour of Europe and the UK. They have released five singles from their fourth album, which ships June 28.

They gave TEDx Talks two years in a row at the University of Nevada, 2016 and 2017. The drummer is Drumeo's Rock Drummer of the Year for 2023, and has been nominated for many other awards. She's been "banging on things" since she was six, and singing like an angel while doing it.

Here is their story if you're interested. https://youtu.be/EIEcjGZmQ8w? and/or https://youtu.be/s7iQG0ug4HI?

They released this amazing song a month ago: https://youtu.be/s6b_FgQnXL8?

It is loud, hard, driving rock, with a serious message about how you can simultaneously feel trapped by the routine of, and invigorated by, living out your dream. I get it... I've been there, done that, in several roles. Most of us have. This song is a pressure relief valve.

There is a decided difference between being nice on UHH and being nice on a battlefield or in an operating room... This is a social media site. Nice is a currency of credibility here.

Reality elsewhere occasionally presents us with some more difficult choices. I had to make a few in business. In retrospect, I was right often enough, and nice often enough, when it counted either way. The trick was to know when to be right at someone else's expense, for the greater good of the business. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, to paraphrase Spock from Star Trek.

Few photographers with deliberate intentions of becoming a PHOTOGRAPHER like many of their first ten thousand images (give or take a few thousand). That was an expensive problem in the days of film and paper, but in today's virtual world, 10,000 images just take time to make and sort through. My kids passed that number in their teens. They're now 25 and 33. (Thank digital cameras, iPod Touches, and iPhones.)

Heck, I passed that number in high school in the early '70s, but I was an anomaly back then. I was on a yearbook staff, and they paid for film, paper, chemicals, and more. Today's kids have it all too easy.

I agree with certain Very Famous Photographers — I see 50% of photography as what happens "in the field," up to the point where an exposure has been made. The other half is what you do with what you captured. Often an image can be converted from a lowly snapshot to a decent photo, with some judicious post processing.

I guess my point is, keep going. Keep making exposures. Keep processing them. Take visual chances.

Train your brain to see good images, too. We become what we think about. Looking at really well-crafted photographs and art works can program your subconscious to know what a good image might look like.

For example, my wife and I were at Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain, in October of 2022. It's an ancient cathedral. They have a great little art museum there with a well-curated selection of works from some of the great old masters. The tasteful compositions and subject treatments in those works of art were unsurprising! Good use of the frame, colors, light, lines, forms, shapes, shadows, and perspectives carries over into photography and every other 2D art form. I'm no student of art or art history, but found myself enthralled by the stimulation. I don't really care who the artists are, but what I can learn from their visual presentation techniques.

I used to devour books on photography, including many of the works of 20th Century photographers. I went through a period in my 20s when I went to the public library every week or two and pored over their collection of photo books.

I took a couple dozen magazines at one point, a third of which were on photography. I have a shelf full of books on photography, and another shelf full of books by photographers presenting their works. I've revisited all of them over the years. They remind me of "what good is."

This topic comes up a lot. The CORRECT answer varies by camera brand and model! Stabilization systems are NOT standard. Is yours in the lens? In the body? In both? How many axes of movement are involved? Three? Five?

Some cameras automatically turn on stabilization when there is camera movement and turn it off when there is none. Others can't discern that, so they require the user to turn it off when the camera is on a tripod. Consult your full operations manual for the details. Older cameras are more likely to require your intervention to avoid movement CAUSED by the stabilizer(s).

A high key image is often going to mean some degree of overexposure. A low key image is often going to mean some degree of underexposure. Neither is an error when the intent yields the desired result. A moonlit silhouette of a couple on a beach at night is going to appear many stops underexposed, except for the overexposed moon. Is that incorrect or bad? No, it's just what can be done, given the contrast range of the scene. The couple will like it for what it is, not for what it is not.

I was once asked, "Would you rather be right or be nice?" My answer was, "What are the circumstances?"

If being right determines whether someone lives or dies, I want to be right, and if that requires being an SOB momentarily, I'll be one, and ask for forgiveness later.

If being nice determines whether I "get to tomorrow" in an important relationship, I'll be nice, so long as an error doesn't cause a harm worse than indignity.

If there's time to nicely and politely guide others to the correct conclusion and away from their errant stupidity, I'll try to forge that path.

But I'll tell you this, I hate being wrong. It isn't in my DNA to promote falsehoods. It's not good for humanity.

As a Mac user, I'd use iMovie. I've made many slide shows over the last two decades using iMovie or Final Cut Pro. But if you just want a simple, silent show to run in the background on a timer, Apple Photos and Lemkesoft's Graphic Converter are good choices.

Bear in mind that video is almost never very simple. If you want pans and zooms, titles, music, special effects, etc., it can get out of hand very quickly.

You beat me to it. I was thinking the same thing.

Composition is enhancement... a selective editing of nature's visual feast... or some such horse hockey. Much like plastic surgery.

Oh, this is going nowhere, quickly!

You have my deepest sympathies.

Best advice I got on that was, "Just go do it. No one can tell you how. You have to figure it out by making it up as you go along. OR, you can storyboard it ahead of time..."

There is a famous photo of a Vietnamese soldier assassinating a prisoner on the street at point blank range in the late 1960s.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42864421

I'm sure it told the story pretty well. Of course, some prose accompanied it. But the scene was so bizarre that a reading alone would have sounded fictional.