Peter Truman Photography

From Canon's press release dated 22nd July 2009:

Canon Inc. announced today the development of Hybrid Image Stabilizer (IS), the world’s first* optical Image Stabilizer which compensates for both angular camera shake and shift camera shake. The technology will be incorporated in an interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens planned for commercial release before the end of 2009.

This is quite a significant development given that existing Canon IS lenses include technology first introduced in 1995. It has of course been refined significantly to sense shake more accurately and to be able to improve the level of stabilisation. This has helped us take clear, unblurred shots in lower light, use the camera handheld more often and, with the stabilisation now fitted to some of the bigger lenses, take clear pictures that just could not be taken of some sports and wildlife.

After several days threatening it eventually rained today, a few heavy showers and just what the plants needed. This evening the sun appeared for a while and cast a lovely light over the border; it would be a shame not to step outside with the macro lens and try to capture a few rain drops on the plants… These are a few of the images that I particularly liked.

June 14th 2009, a beautiful sunny evening. I sat in the garden looking, thinking about nothing in particular but fully aware of the wonderful evening light that was starting to make the plants in the border glow. Time to pick up the camera and start looking amongst the plants in the border - of which there are many different types. As I often do I edged along with the long macro lens, looking through the viewfinder rather than just hoping my eyes would pick something up. With the sun on them the gently hanging blue bells looked a real treat and I spent some time gazing at them lit up by the warm light. I took several pictures to get a group of the bells in the picture, but then I saw the shadow of the stamen on the petal.