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morning all.
I suspect this post will come back with responses along the lines "ditch the zoom and use primes" but here goes.
Amongst my growing and recently acquired collection of prime legacy lenses, I have an old Minolta MD 70-210 F4 zoom. For sentimental reasons, I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. Plus I don't think it's too shabby with the images produced.
I want to use it at slower shutter speeds (slower than 1/FL) which means I need the help of the IBIS on my Panasonic G80.
As those of us shooting legacy glass with IBIS know, you have to set the FL within the menu which is relatively easy for Primes, but a real pain with a zoom lens to the point that it is simply not practical to change FL in the menu every time you zoom the lens.
I've read numerous comments about setting FL for IBIS about 1/3 of the zoom range (in my case this would be about 100-110mm) and then just make do. Others say set the IBIS FL @70mm knowing that the more you go through the zoom range, the less effective IBIs will be.
Before I spend time testing the theory, do any fellow members have any first hand experience here?
Thanks in advance
I suspect this post will come back with responses along the lines "ditch the zoom and use primes" but here goes.
Amongst my growing and recently acquired collection of prime legacy lenses, I have an old Minolta MD 70-210 F4 zoom. For sentimental reasons, I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. Plus I don't think it's too shabby with the images produced.
I want to use it at slower shutter speeds (slower than 1/FL) which means I need the help of the IBIS on my Panasonic G80.
As those of us shooting legacy glass with IBIS know, you have to set the FL within the menu which is relatively easy for Primes, but a real pain with a zoom lens to the point that it is simply not practical to change FL in the menu every time you zoom the lens.
I've read numerous comments about setting FL for IBIS about 1/3 of the zoom range (in my case this would be about 100-110mm) and then just make do. Others say set the IBIS FL @70mm knowing that the more you go through the zoom range, the less effective IBIs will be.
Before I spend time testing the theory, do any fellow members have any first hand experience here?
Thanks in advance