Camera electronic stabilization is often terrible. Sony wants to change that with this little chip that works with RAW footage and fights the jello effect

Sensor shift and optical stabilization are typically the preferred types of stabilization due to electronic stabilization’s cropping, limited use on RAW footage, and jello effect. Sony’s new approach to electronic stabilization still crops the footage – but it works to fight the jello effect and can be applied to RAW footage. By giving stabilization its own separate chip, Sony says the system is better able to suppress the “jello effect,” or wobbling in footage. Along with suppressing the jello effect, the stabilization chip also corrects for blur and works to keep the horizon in place. Of course, the development of the EIS chip begs another question: Why bother focusing on electronic stabilization when uncropped sensor stabilization is still superior?