[somat]

Why not stabilize optically?

I am probably missing something huge. But if the goal is a stable image why use gyros. use the image itself to apply the correction factor to the final integration. sort of the same way videos are stabilized.

[thrtythreeforty]

You can do this two ways: you can take a bunch of images, and align and stack them. Or you can take one motion-blurred image and infer the convolution kernel somehow. The former is undesirable because each frame you take has a fixed amount of "read noise" from the sensor. So you'd change your sensor noise for the worse.

The second way is undesirable because it's really hard. There is a lot of research into this and some of the results are good but some are not.

[kybernetyk]

This would make the resulting image frame smaller. A Nono in the current full frame meta.

Photo hobbyists are snobs :)