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Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)

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Re: Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)

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Can somebody ELI5 this to me? The image with the 2 earths.. that only works if the camera is not also on the ground, but it is? How is the rotation of the object and the camera not identical? Why would it rotate ‘upwards’? Also, if the issue is relative motion or rotation between camera and object, wouldn’t two sensors, one on the camera and one on the subject be able to solve this, since we can see if their rotation…

Imagine the camera were floating just above the surface of the Earth, and also that it had perfect image stabilization. This image stabilization would keep the camera always oriented in the same direction. Same direction relative to what? To the rest of the universe. So if it was pointing right at a star, it would continue pointing directly at that star as it went around and around the Earth. From our perspective on…

That makes sense. It doesn’t make sense why you wouldn’t simply correct for that, or why having 2 sensors wouldn’t fix it?

Re: Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)

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Can somebody ELI5 this to me? The image with the 2 earths.. that only works if the camera is not also on the ground, but it is? How is the rotation of the object and the camera not identical? Why would it rotate ‘upwards’? Also, if the issue is relative motion or rotation between camera and object, wouldn’t two sensors, one on the camera and one on the subject be able to solve this, since we can see if their rotation…

The position of the gyro is attached to the earth surface but its orientation is not. See Foucault's Pendulum.

Thanks! That makes it incredibly obvious
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