Active Stabilization

[Peter C.]

I was having a convo with someone and they mentioned Sony Active Stabilization work much better with native Sony lens. I was surprised and not but I just thought the whole point of in body stabilization would be that it would work with any lens as long as the camera knew the focal length. In fact there's a manual setting for manual lenses. Since I don't have any native Sony lenses to test this I can only judge AS on/off on a 3rd party lens. It make sense that Sony would want to give there lenses an advantage. Has any heard of this or experienced it yourself?

 

[Bruce Watson]

My understanding is that the current generation of Sony cameras (actually, Canon and Nikon too) typically have in-body stabilization, and enough software in the body that if the lens supports optical stabilization, it will combine the two to give you the most stabilization it can across the entire body / lens system. But if you attach an older non-stabilized lens, you still get the in-body stabilization.

To get the most out of these new bodies / lenses, you of course have to update their respective firmwares. Always fun.