Image stablizing in body or vr lenses?

Which is better,stablizing in the E510 or the vr lenses of Nikon? I think that

I like it in the body better but, someone mentioned that maybe it would not be

enough if you put on a large lens. Does anyone know anything about this?

Neither. Learn to hold the camera steady. If that doesn't work, use a tripod.

From my limited testing (with lenses up to 300mm), I'd say there's little to chose in terms of effectiveness between a well designed body vs. lens stabilization system. About 3 stop is what you get. Maybe 4 stops if you're real lucky.

 

See http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/digital/image_stabilization.html

 

Personally I'd much rather have in-body sensor shift stabilization than lens based stabilization. It's cheaper and it works with ALL lenses, including widanagle and normal primes which aren't available in VR/IS versions.

 

I'm a Canon EOS shooter, but I still want body based stabilization.

 

If I was buying my first DSLR, I'd look at the Pentax line with body based IS.

 

If you want long fast telephoto lenses, you're pretty much restricted to Nikon and Canon anyway, so you don't have a lot of choice in the matter.

It's a compromise. In the body you can use it with all your lenses, but when sed camera goes obsolete, you're stuck with a bunch of non-IS lenses. Lenses last longer, but you'll have to pay more for each individual one.

I suspect that when said camera goes obsolete, it's replacement will also have sensor shift stabilization built in, so it's a moot point. I see more and more cameras using sensor shift IS, not less and less

 

The one major real and indisputable advantage of IS/VR lenses is that they work just fine with 35mm film SLRs, but that's an advantage fewer and fewer photographers are making use of.

 

As I've pointed out before, it's certainly not impossible to have a system with sensor shift stabilization in the body AND which can also use IS lenses. In fact there's a Four Thirds lens with IS built in and it can be used on the E-510 body which has sensor shift built into it. I'm not sure how they handle the two systems though (only one or the other can be used, not both together).

Thanks everyone. I can't decide between an E510 or a D40. I keep going back and forth. Either way I have another question about lenses. Which one is best for close up wildlife zoom or telephoto 70-300 or what?

If your choice is between E510 and D40, I would recommend E510 from what knowledge I have about these 2 cameras. It has body IS which is good for beginners and for low light situations, D40 does not have this.

 

Olympus has good lenses in all ranges so the choice shoud not be depending on the lenses.

 

Body IS is one time investment, If you go for IS in lens, each IS lens will be much more costlier than the non IS lens. So its also an economical option.

I went through all this before deciding on a system, and chose Pentax. The K10D has in-body IS, and my old hands can now get pretty stable shots up to about 400mm. Can't hold more than a 135mm steady anymore with my film stuff, unless there's enough light for a high shutter speed. The K20D has replaced the K10D. I think Pentax is in for the long haul. I know a guy who bought the Olympus and really likes it. The think I like about the Pentax is that it's 1.5 crop (I think the Olympus is 2x crop, but not sure) and the Pentax is a regular 24x36 format.