Anti-blur???

Fujifilm annouced its new line last week, I saw this new "anti-blur"

feature on finepix s5200 coming in Sep., I don't quite understand

that. I know Canon's "IS", Panasonic's "O.S.I.", Minolta

Konica's "AS", Sony's "steady shot", but I don't get the concept

of "anti-blur", anyone out there has any idea?

Alfred

 

I read about this on dpreview.com

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=14478084

 

Basically, anti-blur is nothing but a software bias towards using a faster shutter speed eg. 1/100 second. Hence, there is less blur, only because you have a faster shutter speed. THe Fuji camera can do this, because it has a great CCD which produces less noise at higher ISO than other comparable cameras. See Fuji F10 reviews.

 

This is quite different from the complex, hardware, gyroscope-like solutions of image stabilizers.

I have several ideas on what it "could be". The dpReview discussions that John mentioned (which he only summarized one side of) mention several of them, from simply better noise processing, to the use of either blind deconvolution (such as cepstral or van Cittert) or guided deconvolution (with motion estimates from rotational accelerometers in the camera). But it's only "ideas", just guesses. Only Fuji actually knows what Fuji has done, and until more of the camera buying public can get their hands on the cameras for testing, that's all we have, guesses.