Comment by coldtea
2 hours ago
>If COST is not a factor, why does the Galaxy A16 still have no OIS (Optical Image Stabilization)?
Because it's just not that important, phones and cameras have also used digital stabilization via cropping since forever.
Those are two fundamentally different things:
1. OIS (optical stabilization) ensures that the light photons consistently hit the same pixel, removing the blur caused by camera-shake during exposure.
2. EIS (electrical stabilization) via cropping compensates camera-shake on video(!) recording by applying the same shake to the crop-canvas within the frame.
--> EIS can fix a shaky video but not a blurry photo.