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11-12-2006, 07:33 AM
Filed under: Recorders (http://www.engadgethd.com/category/recorders/), Panasonic (http://www.engadgethd.com/category/panasonic/)
Say good morning to the first production run of Panasonic's AVCHD (http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=avchd) 1080i 3CCD camcorders. That's right, Panny took the drab yet so, so sexy CEATEC prototype (http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/03/another-panasonic-avchd-1080i-camcorder/) and turned her out with some shiny new paint as the HDC-SD1. Fortunately, it's still packing that 12x optical zoom Leica DICOMAR lens in addition to a 3-inch LCD, 1.5-hour battery, and HDMI (1.2a) for output and control with Panasonic's VIERA Link universal remote (http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/17/panasonic-viera-link-first-hdmi-universal-remote/). The camera utilizes those three 1/4-inch CCDs to record video to SD/SDHC (http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=sdhc) cards for up to 90/60/40-minutes with 13/9/6-Mbps compression, respectively, when toting the bundled 4GB SDHC card. It'll even grab a 1.5 megapixel snap while simultaneously recording if you have the urge. On sale in Japan for ¥180,000 or about $1,531 starting December 1st. Oh, and Panny also announced their HDC-DX1 model which shares the same specs but records to 8-cm DVDs (http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/11/avchd-format-will-enable-8cm-dvd-equipped-hd-camcorders/) instead for ¥160,000 (about $1,361) starting December 15th. More pics of both 3CCD cams after the break.
[Via Impress (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?&u=http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20061108/pana1.htm)]
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Say good morning to the first production run of Panasonic's AVCHD (http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=avchd) 1080i 3CCD camcorders. That's right, Panny took the drab yet so, so sexy CEATEC prototype (http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/03/another-panasonic-avchd-1080i-camcorder/) and turned her out with some shiny new paint as the HDC-SD1. Fortunately, it's still packing that 12x optical zoom Leica DICOMAR lens in addition to a 3-inch LCD, 1.5-hour battery, and HDMI (1.2a) for output and control with Panasonic's VIERA Link universal remote (http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/17/panasonic-viera-link-first-hdmi-universal-remote/). The camera utilizes those three 1/4-inch CCDs to record video to SD/SDHC (http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=sdhc) cards for up to 90/60/40-minutes with 13/9/6-Mbps compression, respectively, when toting the bundled 4GB SDHC card. It'll even grab a 1.5 megapixel snap while simultaneously recording if you have the urge. On sale in Japan for ¥180,000 or about $1,531 starting December 1st. Oh, and Panny also announced their HDC-DX1 model which shares the same specs but records to 8-cm DVDs (http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/11/avchd-format-will-enable-8cm-dvd-equipped-hd-camcorders/) instead for ¥160,000 (about $1,361) starting December 15th. More pics of both 3CCD cams after the break.
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