Image Stabilizer

This is understood to be the process in Film- as well as videotechnics which prevents loss of sharpness due to shakiness. You can differentiate between optical and electrical image stabilizers. Because the optical image stabilizer keeps the full resolution of the stabilized image and offers a softer, overall more subtle effect, is is often preferred to the electrical stablizer. Optical stabilizers however are only found in upper priced camcorders.The electronic stabilizer works with a converter chip, which gets rid of annyoing shakes by removing small sections of the images on the large chip surface. This often leads to very sharp transitions and slurrs in the image.