I made some tests with my Canon 55-250 IS today, and I have discovered something new to me, the build-in IS does not work the way as I expected.
Here you can see a sample, the same image taken with and without IS, with a tripod, and a cropped sample at 100%
Yes, IS (or VR for Nikon) helps you get sharper images while holding the camera with your hands, but not when you have a tripod, because IS/VR is always looking for vibration, and if they don't find it, the same mechanism will cause that vibration.
If you have a Canon Digital camera, you can display thumbnails of your RAW shots in Windows XP or Vista with the Canon RAW Codec
You can download the codec for free at the Canon website
Display Canon CR2 RAW Thumbnails in Windows Vista
At the moment there is not a compatible version for 64 bit Vista, but you can download the codec for almost all EOS and PowerShoot models, simply install, reboot, and you will see thumbnails of your RAW files in the Windows explorer.
Apple, get ready for this! TAT - The Astonishing Tribe is a company specialized in high performance user experiences on mobile devices, I've found a video where we can see a prototype of her new impressive mobile interface that maybe we will se in the next mobile devices.
Well maybe the buttons and widgets are too small to touch, that would be cool in a keyboard device but a lot better in a screen of the size of an iPhone.
I would like to see more OS's and interfaces like this in a near future, with even more "fx transitions" and adding a third dimension to the screen.
David OReilly has finished a new iPhone/iPod Touch application that shows a "hologram" in the screen, obiously it is not a real hologram but the effect is simply amazing.
