GH3 Best Hand Held Small Camera Stabilizer

Vardalos said:
For interiors your Panasonic 7-14mm would be perfect except for the fact it's an f4 and may be too slow. I'm planing on using my Blackbird for Steady Cam Real-Estate walk throughs. I think this combination may work for me.

A Metabones Nikon G to Micro Four Thirds Speed Booster combined with a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 Lens.The Metabones will make that lens quite a bit wider and faster. If anyone has used this combination their comments will be appreciated.
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Do you not lose image stabilization with this method?
I shot some interior photos with the 7-14mm yesterday. During the daytime in a well-lit rooms, I could get by with 4/4 and iso at 200-500. I imagine most of your walk-throughs would be during the day and/or using some additional light boxes.
The fastest autofocus wide prime I have is the Oly 17mm. It would be fast enough, but I'm not sure it is wide enough for most interior real estate work.
I have used the 7-14mm in some low-light conditions and really have to bump up ISO. I bought the NeatVideo plugin last night just to try to use some of the more dramatic low-light footage with grain. The good thing is that outdoor daylight shots work great with this lens.
 
Ianscreations said:
Do you not lose image stabilization with this method?
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7-14 isn't stabilized either - far easier to get away with on an ultrawide. It does have autofocus... but then at ultrawide focal lengths, you can have focus so deep (even at f2) that AF is a non-issue.

The Tokina 11-16 + SB isn't as sharp as the Lumix 7-14, but it works, it's faster, and it's fully manual - and works with other bodies I may rent. It vignettes @ 11mm (~8mm boosted) on my GH2, but not at all on my AF100.

Tok 11-16 focuses the Nikon way (at least with the Nik version). I've also tried the Sigma 10-20/3.5 (~7-14/2.5 boosted), to which I may be switching - a tiny bit sharper and closer focusing
 
Not for certain... I tested an earlier 10-20/4-5.6 version and it covered fully on GH2 - but of course the speed on that was less interesting.
 
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