Of Chickens & Image Stabilization...!

Recently I came across this Fuji-film TV Commercial:

The ad promotes the image stabilization powers of the Fujifilm X-S1 bridge camera.

Clever idea I must say. 

I could not stop myself from researching further into the subject and the following is what I found...

Apparently chickens have image stabilized head. 

 Here is another example of a bird having an image stabilized head! :P

Well, it turns out cats can do that too... :D

Crazy right??

Human bodies have a similar feature, but our stabilization involves mostly our eyes rather than our entire head. It’s called the vestibule-ocular reflex. 

According to Wikipedia,

The vestibule-ocular reflex (VOR) is a reflex eye movement that stabilizes images on the retina during head movement by producing an eye movement in the direction opposite to head movement, thus preserving the image on the center of the visual field. For example, when the head moves to the right, the eyes move to the left, and vice versa. Since slight head movement is present all the time, the VOR is very important for stabilizing vision.

Congratulations to Fuji-film for using such a nature inspired concept in a commercial for an out and out man-made feature of the camera!!! 

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