They are two different grades of optical image stabilization. One is the late nineties technology and the other is more recent improved technology. Sony is not going to tell you the details of their technology because their website is designed for Joe Consumer. Did you write the http://www.supervideo.com web master about this yet at chuckmeister at supervideo.com? He'll tell you just what I have told you. k On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:23 PM, Steven Rogers wrote: > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 08:04 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote: > >> SteadyShot is better optical and Super SteadyShot is best optical. > > I tried to verify that somewhere on the web, but couldn't find it. > Super SteadyShot is an optical technique. I couldn't find any > documentation of what plain SteadyShot is. > > SR