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The editors liked
Nice precision in images
Good optical stabilization
Saturated colors
Microphone
Quality LCD screen
Great picture performance in highest HD setting
Easy to use quickly
Dolby 5.0 channel surround sound
Three-inch screen
Simple to use
Great looks
3CCDs. Slim. One-handed operation
Generally high-quality video and decent stills
Nice manual feature set
The editors didn't like
Significant afterglow
Photo mode in 1920X1080 pixels
No headphone connection
HDMI cable not included
The body of the camera heats up significantly
No SD mode or viewfinder
Two-meg photos disappoint
Low-level noise. AVCHD isn’t for all
Sluggish autofocus
Poor automatic white balance
Uncomfortable design with some poor feature implementations
Abstract: We were sceptical about a camcorder that records high-definition video onto an SD Card. The Panasonic HDC-SD1, however, captures (and stores) video of exceptional quality for a sub-£1,000 model. Yet, the compression format it uses introduces a differen...
Abstract: By eliminating tapes and disks in favour of SD memory cards as a recording medium, Panasonic has made the HDC-SD1 one of the worlds smallest and most reliable High Definition (1080i) camcorders. To get the most from its HD recording capability, the H...
The Panasonic is perhaps a little ahead of its time, and is currently quite hard to find in the UK. However, the technology works brilliantly and, as soon as theres some decent software available thatll allow you to make use of its fantastic facilit...
Abstract: Most HD camcorders use the High Definition Video (HDV) format. This uses 25Mbit/s MPEG2 video, which is stored on 13GB Mini-DV tape. Tape isnt the most convenient storage format, though, as you have to transfer the footage to a PC in real time befo...
Abstract: Panasonics latest camcorder stores high definition video on a 4GB memory card. The HDC-SD1 is the first camcorder weve seen to use the new AVCHD format. High definition consumer camcorders have now been available for about a year and-a-half and so ...
Great picture performance in highest HD setting, Easy to use quickly, Dolby 5.0 channel surround sound
No SD mode or viewfinder
High-definition camcorders really do represent something to get excited about. The camcorder market has laboured in recent years to find an innovation or technology that could really yank consumers into stores; DVD and Hard Disk Drive might have been e...
