Is this the Betamax Camera

[anglefire]

As to IS Olympus cameras and Zuiko lenses communicate with each other regarding IS, if it is a third party or manual lens that does not communicate with it you can manually dial in the focal lengh for the IS to work with it.

That's interesting, so they must be some form of tuning by focal length. Makes sense. 

[chris@seary.com]

but not sensor based image stabilisation!

Yes I noticed that.

Simple. Nikon and Canon both make film cameras. You can't have in-camera stabilisation with film. Nikon (and I'm sure Canon) ensure that they support all equipment sold going back a decade or more.

On the DC mag site, I was always bitching about the Nikon lens compatibility thing (they've never managed to converge - AF-D, G and AF-S are still being sold, and there are still a couple of AI-S lenses being made!).

And then I bought some old film cameras. I have:
-Nikon FE
-Nikon FA
-Nikon F60

All of these have a decent range of lenses available (wide, prime, tele, zoom), which give full functionality. Not bad. Especially with the FE. Thirty years old.

Ken Rockwell has some shots of the very first Nikon F with the latest AF-S zoom mounted:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility.htm

[ABERS]

but not sensor based image stabilisation!

Yes I noticed that.

Simple. Nikon and Canon both make film cameras. You can't have in-camera stabilisation with film. Nikon (and I'm sure Canon) ensure that they support all equipment sold going back a decade or more.

On the DC mag site, I was always bitching about the Nikon lens compatibility thing (they've never managed to converge - AF-D, G and AF-S are still being sold, and there are still a couple of AI-S lenses being made!).

And then I bought some old film cameras. I have:
-Nikon FE
-Nikon FA
-Nikon F60

All of these have a decent range of lenses available (wide, prime, tele, zoom), which give full functionality. Not bad. Especially with the FE. Thirty years old.

Ken Rockwell has some shots of the very first Nikon F with the latest AF-S zoom mounted:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility.htm

That's why they don't use in-camera stabilisation......

I should have realised.