monopod and antishake??

Ok, I know for a tripod turn the AS off, but for a monopod?

 

In poor light with 300-400mm of magnification my shutter speed flirts with

1/320-400th while shooting night sports.

 

I prefer the monopod with the 80-200 2.8 w/ w/out the 1.4x TC because for

baseball it allows me to prefocus and sit back. Then when the action appears I

fire away.

 

Conceivably with AS I could abandon the monopod but it's convenience in framing

and overall confort make it worthwhile.

 

So AS on or off with monopod?

Why would you turn off the AS just because it is on a tripod? I ask the question purely out of ignorance; it would seem if a long lens is mounted to a tripod and it is windy you will get sufficient vibrations to ruin your shot. Likewise a monopod has the same issues, only worse.

Yeah.

We could spend a lot of time making guesses and assumptions about how the AS control system works and still not know for sure. So why not just try it and see which works better?

Despite what the manual says, on occasions I've forgotten to turn it off when using a tripod and not noticed any detrimental effect. It seems to help with a monopod. Try it.

On this issue I only "know" what I have read about testing. It's about trade-offs. Almost everything has some kind of downside. It has been said that image stabilization systems introduce a certain degree of compensatory instability of their own. Therefore introduce a small degree of their own unsharpness... but better than no compensation for the greater unsharpness of camera shake.

 

What Doug has said makes sense. I know about the effects of wind on even good tripods. So it would seem a good idea to compensate for that as with any other source of camera shake. So with wind on a tripod, leave SR on. No wind, turn it off.

 

Monopods help hold your gear steadier, and handle the weight for you- but there is still some movement. So it also makes sense here to leave it on.

 

But with very high shutter speeds, much higher than lens focal length, it is questionable that SR has value. There may come a point where it makes no contribution other than whatever small degree of unsharpness comes from its activation.

I have to add- in determining shutter speed vs lens focal length, it would seem likely the 1.5x image size increase from digital use would factor in as well.

Hai,

 

Seems AS on a monopod is a good idear although the question is, is movement on a monopod a shake motion :-) Apposed to the camera handhold will be moving rather rapidly in multiple directions.

 

The same goes for wind on a tripod, will the lens be moving in a way that AS starts to compensate.

 

So the question could be what triggers the AS system to start compensating for motion.

 

Would be interesting to do some test in that area though.

 

Anybody? still looking for a tripod, have a monopod though.

 

Ton

Ton

That was sort of my question.

 

How does the AS account for shake. I assume it's more for the random movements of the hand vs. the relatively static movements of the monopod.

 

The reason I am not specifically testing this is as michael pointed out there the AS might introduce unsharpness of it's own on a relatively stabile surface.

 

Will I test both? Yes, would I prefer a direct answer? sure, because I'd rather shoot keepers then waste time pixel peeping on images to determine which yields a better result.

 

I'm a photographer, not a pixel peeper.