Owner's Manual

Background information: A new IS lens for macro
What is Hybrid IS?
Macro photography involves shooting close-ups of subjects, including flowers, insects, and jewelry.
Until recently, however, there was no technology that could compensate for the type
of camera
shake common to macro photograpy.
With the advent of Canon's Hybrid IS (image stabilizer), the
ability
to obtain sharp, blur-free macro photos when shooting handheld is now a reality, providing
an excellent solution when
use of a tripod is either impractical or prohibited.
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Handheld macro photography
In non-macro situations, the effects of camera shake can be seen when shooting handheld at shutter
speeds slower than the reciprocal of the lens focal length (i.e. 1 /focallength in seconds), But in macro
situations,
these effects are more pronounced, requiring shutter speeds one to two steps faster in order
to obtain blur-free handheld photos. Canon's
EF 1 OOmm f/2.8L Macro IS USM effectively solves this
problem. The advanced Hybrid IS - the first of its kind* 1 - offers camera shake compensation of
approximately three shutter speed steps when shooting at O.5x magnification and two steps at 1 X*2,
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