Glossary
IBIS
In-Body Image Stabilization — the camera body itself moves the sensor to counter hand shake. Works with any lens, including unstabilized primes and adapted vintage glass.
IBIS uses a sensor-shift mechanism inside the camera body. Modern systems move the sensor along 5 axes — pitch, yaw, roll, X, and Y — for up to 8 stops of stabilization on the best implementations.
When it matters
- Adapted lenses (which have no stabilization of their own).
- Wide-angle primes.
- Video without a gimbal.
When it doesn't
For long telephoto lenses, lens-based stabilization is usually more effective at the longest focal lengths because the angular displacement at the sensor is too large for a sensor-shift mechanism to fully compensate. Best results come from cameras with both — IBIS + in-lens stabilization working together.
Where this matters
Categories that use ibis
See it compared
IBIS on real comparisons
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