I had the misfortune to drop my sony tr88 camera on holiday last year. As I was on a relativly small island with few if any electronic repair centers, I decided to open it my self. The image stabilization circuitry involved 2 Murata type gyros mounted at right angles to each other at the front of the camera. I didn't see anything I recognised as an accelerometer. Joe BTW I got the camera working by re connecting the pcbs which had become displaced. A remaining intermittant fault was cured by flexing a pcb, so I used a child's eraser to keep it flexed. It lasted just fine till I got home. I would have to say though that working on something like this with just a jewlers screwdriver and 2 small kids who REALLY wanted to help daddy is not for the faint of heart.... ----- Original Message ----- From: William Chops Westfield To: Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [ot]: How do camera stabilization systems work? > I've heard: > > 1) gyros > 2) multi-axis accelerometers. > 3) edge sensing (in the image) via DSP software. > > Some apparently work better than others. (3) was described in conjunction > with a camera whose image stabilization was said NOT to work very well. > > BillW > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > use mailto:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu?body=SET%20PICList%20DIGEST > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu