Long telephoto primes magnify camera shake as ruthlessly as they magnify distant subjects, and image stabilization exists to buy back the sharpness that those long focal lengths throw away. The interaction between stabilization and a support system is less obvious, because a tripod changes the rules that handholding established.Handheld, stabilization is worth several stops on a 400mm or 600mm prime, letting you shoot at shutter speeds that would otherwise guarantee blur. The newest systems pair lens stabilization with in-body stabilization and communicate between the two, and the combined result is the difference between a usable frame and a soft one at the limits of the day. On a monopod the same stabilization still helps, because a monopod steadies vertical motion but leaves lateral and rotational movement for the system to manage.On a tripod the advice reverses. A properly locked tripod holds the camera so still that stabilization has nothing useful to correct, and the system can actually hunt for motion that is not there, introducing subtle blur.
Most modern lenses detect a stable tripod and disable or
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