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Anonymous
I've been thinking that several camera manufacturers got themselves in a really stupid pinch because of the two types of anti-shake systems...
Panasonic-Leica has Panasonic's lens-based AS technology, so they're making lenses with AF. But their next SLR has to be based on Olympus hardware again, and that hardware includes sensor-based AS now. If they don't dump that feature, there will be inconsistency with their own lenses; if they do, it will look fucking stupid. (However, they already screwed up like that with L1's viewfinder and don't seem to mind)
Canon and Nikon have been producing lenses with AS for a long time now and marketing them mostly to pros. But now the low-end market demands AS too, and lens-based AS is too costly for that. So they have the choice: make a sensor-based AS system, lose profits on lenses and screw over the pros who already paid a fuckton of money for AS, or don't make it, lose profits on low-end cameras and screw over amateur Canon/Nikon fans.
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