Great shot ruined by motion but I was locked down on Tripod mystery!

[Ben A.]

The video is processing on youtube.. I have seen this issue before with a Moon shot I did. I have a new Satchler carbon fiber fsb 8. This is with my Canon 70-200 II ... my guess is the Image Stabilization was picking up the vibration of the fan and ruined the shot.

Same thing happened with a time lapse of the moon. I could not figure out why it was not rock solid. Has anyone else seen this problem?

 

[Todd T]

I see this quite often when shooting time lapse. It manifests as the frame shifting around. Turning off stabilization stops the problem.

 

[Ben A.]

You want to turn off your sound, its all static.. missed that and I dont want to reupload

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTCZRTYHGps&feature=youtu.be

 

[Phil Holland]

Make sure you turn Image Stabilization "off" when you are performing static shots. It'll even tell you that in the manual that comes with the lens.

 

[William Albertini]

If the camera is locked down, you should not have image stabilization on, it will start hunting...

 

[Todd T]

That's exactly the symptom I see.

 

[Ben A.]

And I guess its also going to make my pans stutter too.. LOL I got to tape it off from now on.

 

[Todd T]

Make sure stabilization is off when locked down. It does help when handheld or on a moving platform ( escalator, car, train, etc.)

Your shot should be easily fixed using warp stabilizer or similar effect.

 

[Shane Kelly]

we used to get this with the hvx 200. Short answer is, when on a tripod, turn off stabilization.

 

[Steinar Andersen]

Well I guess theres always an exception to the rule. I once turned off stabilization on the Sony EX-3 on a big multicam shoot because we were mostly on tripod and steadicam. Every single shot was ruined due to microshake/judder and it looked awful. It managed to pick up every single little bump and shake, even the stedicam shots were horrible. Ony shots that were ok, were those we filmed with DSLR's and GoPro's. Since pretty much everything that could go wrong did go wrong on this particalar production, this was just a minor f*ck-up in the grand scheme of things...But let's just say I learned my lesson that day. Test, test, test and then test some more.