tinosa wrote:
While I have always been told to turn the IS off for tripod use I don't understand the negative consequences of not doing so. Does the lack of motion when mounted on a tripod somehow confuse the IS into some sort of hunting mode,chasing it's tail so to speak?
Yes - in a nutshell. It has to do with a lens system that is LOOKING for motion when there really is NONE ! It keeps increasing the sensitivity of the motion detection algorithm until the amplification becomes so large that the motion it detects is caused by the motion it CAUSES in the image stabilization circuit. What you are doing is inducing an anomaly in the system by causing it to divide by zero (motion).