AW: Leica X1
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/x1-field.shtml
Stabilization?
There is an Image Stabilization setting on the camera's menu, but it isn't what you think. The X1 does not have either optical or sensor-based image stabilization. What Leica has implemented seems a bit strange, and here's what the manual says about it...
The camera takes two pictures automatically in series with this function, one with a faster and one with a slower shutter speed (you will hear the shutter operate twice during the operation). Then, it takes the data of the two exposures and combines them into one with digital image processing.
• Therefore, please hold the camera steady until the shutter has released
the second time.
• Due to the function using two exposures, it can only be applied with
static subjects.
• Image stabilization is only possible with shutter speeds within the range
of 1/4s to 1/30s and sensitivities up to ISO 1600.
This seems to me to be far less useful that the IS found on other cameras, and almost seems to have been added so that a check-box can be ticked off. Frankly, if it only works when the subject is stationary, and when the shutter speed is very low, it's of little practical value, at least to me.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/x1-field.shtml