Digital Image Stabilization

Digital Image Stabilization (DIS) - An electronic method of minimizing the effect of camera shake during video recording.

All cameras apart from Kodak additionally offer some kind of digital image stabilization which simply increases the sensor sensitivity when required, and thereby increasing the shutter speed which the camera is able to use to get a correct exposure.

Digital image stabilization shifts the image on the sensor to compensate for motion. It's like watching a baseball infielder moving around to stay under a windblown pop-up.

Do not confuse with "Anti-Blur," "Digital Image Stabilization," "Picture Stabilization, ...

Image stabilization, IS in short, helps to steady the image projected into the camera to compensate for hand shake. It differs from digital image stabilization found in most digital video cameras as the later involves manipulation of image pixels to ...

See also: Photograph, Image, Image Stabilization, Digital, Pixels