During CES 2012, Sony introduced a new generation of their Balanced Optical SteadyShot, designed for their line of HandyCam camcorders. With the five new camcorder lines shown, three of them would feature this new technology. It is aimed at further reducing the shaky footage which can be caused by shaking hands or by walking around. The new Balanced Optical SteadyShot is built on a new concept in which the lens floats in the middle of the camera housing. With this new floating-lens technology, the camera and the parts around it will shake from your movement while the lens in the middle continues to point forward. This means that the lens will not take in the shaking which would no doubt otherwise cause your footage to be shaky.

The result is quite remarkable, given how previous Sony technology already did a wonderful job at reducing shaky footage. However, no words can quite capture the difference between the previous technology and what Sony has in store this time around. That’s why below is a video demonstration of the two technologies, side by side, with the left camera incorporating the new Balanced Optical SteadyShot floating-lens while the camera on the right uses Sony’s previous SteadyShot technology.

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