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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

CHG_CANON wrote:

Come on. This is 21st century, market-leading EOS technology. It's been well over a decade of market leadership from Canon in the area of Image Stabilization. This leading Canon IS technology includes the 'smarts' to sense a stable tripod platform and not cause any problem. You're more likely to forget to turn IS back on than it will impact your long-exposure images. Passing around outdated suggestions and non-Canon best practices is what makes the internet such a cesspool.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

tommymac wrote:

I am shooting some long exposure waterfalls this week and wondering whether I should turn off IS on my canon RF lens (using r6). Thanks.

Leave it on.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

CHG_CANON wrote:

Come on. This is 21st century, market-leading EOS technology. It's been well over a decade of market leadership from Canon in the area of Image Stabilization. This leading Canon IS technology includes the 'smarts' to sense a stable tripod platform and not cause any problem. You're more likely to forget to turn IS back on than it will impact your long-exposure images. Passing around outdated suggestions and non-Canon best practices is what makes the internet such a cesspool.

Pay attention to Paul.

The IBIS on my Olympus Cameras is great. Leave it on and it works as hard as necessary. For your camera RFM.

tommymac Loc: Green Bay, Wisconsin

Capn_Dave wrote:

Back to the original post. If shooting a waterfall in daylight, Why not just mount the camera on a tripod and take a series of photos. Then stack the photos in post processing. You get the same effect with the silky water and a high megapixel photo for more detail.

Thanks. I’ll give it a try!

Hip Coyote

This is a good example of thread hijacking. The OP asked if he should turn off IBIS. He did not ask about what company leads in ibis innovation or the history of it.

Oddly, there is only one real answer to this question. It is not what some say or old technology says. What does canon say to do? I have no idea. But surely it’s in a source document such as a manual?

Update. I took a few minutes to look this up on other sources. I did not read the manual due to limited wifi on vacation But some photogs report on d preview, using the R5 (not R6) that when the camera is stationary on a tripod then IBIS is not an issue on or off. But, I’d the photog is going to use the tripod to pan, say shooting birds or something, then there is a slight delay with IBIS catching up causing some lag. I have no idea if this is right, just that it was reported.

Others report that Canon is silent on the issue in other cameras and lenses.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Hip Coyote wrote:

This is a good example of thread hijacking. The OP asked if he should turn off IBIS. He did not ask about what company leads in ibis innovation or the history of it.

Actually he asked

tommymac wrote:

whether I should turn off IS on my canon RF lens (using r6). Thanks.

Only after discussion here was it ‘noticed’ that his R6 also has IBIS.

Perhaps Canon users aren’t used to having IBIS also, and don’t think of it.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Hip Coyote wrote:

This is a good example of thread hijacking. The O... (show quote)

Ummm, isn't there both a URL link and a screen capture to Canon's comments on this question in an early reply to this tread?

Hip Coyote

CHG_CANON wrote:

Ummm, isn't there both a URL link and a screen capture to Canon's comments on this question in an early reply to this tread?

The point is people get off track and things devolve into idiotic disputes. Don’t feed the beast. Answer the question and move on. Either there is an answer or not. But getting into who created ibis, what ever, is as rude as typing in all caps. My opinion only.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Hip Coyote wrote:

The point is people get off track and things devolve into idiotic disputes. Don’t feed the beast. Answer the question and move on. Either there is an answer or not. But getting into who created ibis, what ever, is as rude as typing in all caps. My opinion only.

As I read it from the top, two bad answers, 1 on-point answer responsive to the OP, then nonsense ... But there, on the first page, where even you might have still been reading, are a screen capture and link to Canon's thinking on the subject ...

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Hip Coyote wrote:

The point is people get off track and things devolve into idiotic disputes. Don’t feed the beast. Answer the question and move on. Either there is an answer or not. But getting into who created ibis, what ever, is as rude as typing in all caps. My opinion only.

To whom is it rude? The question was answered on the first page - there was no disservice to the OP if the discussion morphed off the original topic after that. And it’s difficult to see how it’s rude to you, who were not compelled to read it (or comment). Apparently it makes you unhappy when a thread wanders off topic, but others find that a conversation that isn’t monodirectional interesting and informative.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

TriX wrote:

To whom is it rude? The question was answered on the first page - there was no disservice to the OP if the discussion morphed off the original topic after that. And it’s difficult to see how it’s rude to you, who were not compelled to read it (or comment). Apparently it makes you unhappy when a thread wanders off topic, but others find that a conversation that isn’t monodirectional interesting and informative.

Connecting the dots… It’s how higher ordered learning happens.