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Reciprocal rule for focal length?
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this is why i dont use IS for the Football
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IS doesn't take time to settle as such, though it takes a fraction of a second to get up and running. Which is why I said to activate it, and to hold it on while shooting. Basically you need to just touch the shutter release every few seconds to stop it deactivating. If you let it do that all the time, it will be hopeless for action shooting. You just need to adapt your technique to keep the system live at all times, then there is absolutely no delay from the IS.
The theory about not using IS for sport is because it shouldn't be necessary if your shutter speed is already high enough to stop the action, then it might well be high enough to also reduce camera shake to an acceptable level. However, IS can never do any harm and, as mentioned above, the sharpness demands of the latest high pixel density cameras mean that shutter speeds need to be higher than ever to get the most out of them.
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Cheers for the info Hoppy, always find your posts informative. The odd time ive tried IS was when the lighting was poor and dropped the shutter speed to less than the reciprocal, your last post explains why i had problems 
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Cheers for the info Hoppy, always find your posts informative. The odd time ive tried IS was when the lighting was poor and dropped the shutter speed to less than the reciprocal, your last post explains why i had problems
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