Panasonic SDR-H60

The Panasonic SDR-H60 is a 60 GB Hard Drive Camcorder with Panasonic’s Advanced MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization), which detects and corrects hand-shake approximately 4,000 times per second plus it offers a super-powerful 50x optical zoom. It can record to either SD (or SDHC) memory cards or to the built-in 60 GB hard disk drive which features enough storage space for up to 54 hours of footage. The SDR-H60 also features an Anti-Shock Shield that helps protect the built-in hard disk from external impact. It also uses a gyro sensor system to detect handshake, then shifts a lens and adjusts the optical axis to compensate, along with the Drop Detect function that senses if the camera is falling and moves the head away from the hard disk. It also comes with multi-lingual setting such English, Canadian French and Spanish language.

Features

The Panasonic SDR-H60 built around Panasonic’s Advanced MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization), which detects and corrects hand-shake approximately 4,000 times per second plus it offers a 1/6-inch CCD (800K pixels), super-powerful 50x optical zoom and digital zoom of 2500x, that delivers a full 1440-by-1080 image for outstanding picture quality, highly accurate colour reproduction and a wide dynamic range with virtually no colour noise. It comes with an aperture and shutter-priority exposure modes, Focal Length of between 1.8 - 90mm, minimum illumination of 2 Lux (Magic Pix) for night recording, filter size of 35mm, film camera equivalent of 40.9-2046 mm [4 - 3], 33.4-1607 mm [16 - 9] for motion image and 40.7-2036 mm [4 - 3]/33.2-1658 mm [16 - 9] for still picture. The Panasonic SDR-H60 is equipped with a 2.7-inch widescreen power LCD colour display with 123K-pixels, Pure Colour Engine, Soft-Skin Mode plus it supports standard picture formats such as JPEG 0.3 MEGA: 640 x 480 (4:3) and 0.2 MEGA: 640 x 360 (16:9), plus also records MPEG2 video format, equipped with auto and manual Iris control and backlight compensation. The Panasonic SDR-H60 has three different image quality settings of XP (10Mbps), SP (5Mbps), and LP (2.5Mbps) plus it is also equipped with white balance settings (Automatic, Indoor, Outdoor), white balance presets with IR sensor high speed shutter of 1/30-1/8000 second (motion image) and 1/30-1/500 (still picture). Besides that, it has an easy-to-use mode dial MagicPix Images, stereo zoom Microphone with Wind Noise Reduction, date recording (auto date in date code) and Quick Start of approximately 0.6 seconds. The Panasonic SDR-H60 comes with 60GB built-in memory; support SD/SDHC memory Card Slot for storing files and transfer. It has a recording time for 60GB hard drive such as XP(14h) / SP(27h) / LP(54h), while SDHC 16GB is up to 13h 20mins in LP. It is fitted with DC 7.2/9.3 V of power supply and power consumption of 4.0W. It also supports Lithium-ion rechargeable battery. It has a dimension that measures at 2.68-inch (67mm) in height, 2.8-inch (70mm) in width, and 4.64-inch (116mm) in depth plus it weights in at 12 ounces (340 grams). Other additional features include Remaining Indication, Pre-Rec Function, One-Touch Navigation, Help Mode, Disc Copy Function (when using a DVD Burner (VW-BN1), data from SD Memory Card can be copied to a 12-cm DVD Disc), USB Host Function, built-in SD slot (SD/SDHC), DPOF print, PictBridge Compatible, Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0)(mini AB) compatibility, Dolby Digital AC-3 (2 channel) recording, VideoCam Suite 1.0 software for video editing, analogue output and AV output.