On the first day of testing I was out on a viewing platform in high winds where the image stabilisation really showed its benefits. Watching distant Starlings on a wire it was virtually impossible to avoid shake even with my personal 8x32’s, but it was amazing when the IS mode was utilised. The view was steady and sharp, panning birds in flight was a dream and following a flock of pigeons locking on with IS ON allowed me to see details I would have been hard pressed to see with conventional binoculars.
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