IBIS while using PC Remote?

[drjoke]

I hear claims that IBIS is turned off while using PC Remote. Is that true? I am using Weebill with image transmission that uses  PC Remote. That would end up disabling IBIS. Is there a workaround?

[nicB]

Hi. I have this problem. When i connect my Sony a6500 to the gimbal with pc remote, IBIS is unavailable.

Somebody know why and how to activate steadyshot?

[Chrissie]

6 hours ago, nicB said:

Somebody know why

Just guessing:

A gimbal and IBIS are two independent systems for image stabilization: while the gimbal tries to compensate for a change in orientation of the body itself (including the sensor as part of the body), an IBIS system merely shifts (and rotates) the sensor.

Suppose, the body/sensor/lens unit experiences some sort of shake.

If both systems (gimbal plus IBIS) were active at the same time, this would likely result in an overcompensation of the initial disturbance, since both systems don't know of each other and each "feels" to be fully responsible for the compensation. The best outcome would be for the system to take longer until stability is regained. The worst case would be an instable system where both mechanisms keep fighting indefinitely against each others corrections.

In certain cases (body and lens from same supplier), two systems (OSS and IBIS) may actually complement each other's corrections, when body and lens are specified to be compatible with each other. In that case, the compensation work would be split between the two systems, with one system doing the shifting type of compensation and the other system taking care of the rotational compensation. There are six degrees of freedom, which might want to be compensated after all.

I strongly doubt, that a Sony IBIS would be compatible with any non-Sony gimbal in that way.

Suggested further reading.

Edited July 15, 2019 by Chrissie

[Barsonax]

I ran into this same problem which seems to be a artificial limitation of the camera.

However you can work around this if you put your camera in still mode.

With steadyshot on the footage will become even more smooth as it removes the small movements that the gimbal will miss.

No idea why Sony made it like this and I hope a future firmware update will solve this. There are more problems like this such as PC remote sending the file through usb. This takes alot of time which means that for timelapses on the weebill you can only go down to 3 sec interval (if you only send the smallest jpeg possible). Would be nice if we just had to option to only save to sd card.