Steadicam-killer: Sony's new Balanced Optical Stabilisation

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This is the future of optical stabilization. Now available in their CX760V camcorder, Sony has made the lens element "float" inside the camcorder housing, isolating most unintentional judder in walking, running, and zooming. Check out the end result!
Test Balanced optical steady shot Handycam 2012 CX760V CX730E CX720V CX740VE CX760VE PJ740VE - YouTube

 

[eleveninth]

can really see the diff from the comparison shots.

 

[SteveAu]

Really a killer so stable wor...

 

[weeliano]

That is freaking impressive!

 

[tengo]

+1

Now they need to port this over to their professional cameras. But I think it will unlikely port over to the high-end since interchangeable lens are very important in the high end segment. It will also likely make the lower-end such as EX1 bigger since more space is needed to float the lens. So there are some engineering issues to overcome.