For most of my film career I’ve been shooting bigger cinema cameras like the URSA Mini Pro 12K or the ARRI Alexa Mini, and I’ve always preferred handheld with an EasyRig. Because of that, I honestly had a bit of a prejudice against IBIS—I thought it was a cheap tool mostly meant for vlogging and YouTube. But after buying the Lumix S5 this year, I completely changed my mind. The image quality and compressed codecs are great, but the main reason I love the S5 is the IBIS, and I’ve used it for pretty much all the B-roll on this channel. In this video I break down what happened when I took that idea all the way and shot a feature film using only IBIS. I kept the setup extremely small—Lumix S5 with the Blazar Remus anamorphic lens, no rig—because we were a tiny crew (around four people behind camera) hiking and shooting outside in the woods. It became a real stress test: 14 shoot days, roughly 30–40 setups a day, and no time to baby the camera. My takeaway is simple: yes, you can use IBIS on a feature film. For me, about 98% of the footage was usable, even with anamorphic IBIS. It shines in locked-off-style handheld dialogue and small controlled moves, but it struggles more when you’re walking with characters because the small camera bounces up and down. And also—holding a tiny camera for long takes will absolutely destroy your arms, so plan for that.