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Panasonic launches its HDC-SD600 Full-HD 1080p camcorder
In response to the growing pressure for full 1080 Progressive Frame HD recording, Panasonic has now launched its HDC-SD600 AVCHD camcorder – similar to the HDC-SD700 but no viewfinder or manual controls.
Earlier this year, Panasonic introduced a series of 3MOS Full-HD camcorders with 1920×1080 image resolutions, which the company proudly boasted to be the highest standard resolution available in today’s HD camcorder market. Today, Panasonic has announced a further addition to its already impressive line-up of Full HD AVCHD camcorder models.
Panasonic HDC-SD600 1080p AVCHD Camcorder
Featuring full resolution 1920×1080, 50p (progressive scan) recording and playback, the new HDC-SD600 is claimed by its maker to render every shot “at a level of beauty that far exceeds conventional camcorders”.
The HDC-SD600 uses an advanced 3MOS (three CMOS image sensors), each of which is designed to handle one of the three primary red, green and blue image streams separately for better image rendering, and the camcorder boasts an ultra wide 35mm wide-angle lens with 12x optical zoom and 18 x intelligent zoom.
Panasonic’s signature POWER O.I.S (Optical Image Stabilisation) is a primary feature of this new model, in addition to iA (intelligent Auto) mode and Face Recognition. Also of note is the fact that, like models in the 700 series, the HDC-SD600 accepts not only SDHC memory cards but also the high-capacity SDXC cards, too. That gives the product the capability of recording to and reading from 64GB memory cards.
Same performance as “700″ models but less features
Panasonic has confirmed to us that the HDC-SD600 replaces the company’s hugely successful HDC-HS200 and HDC-SD200 AVCHD models, and is designed with a particular emphasis on compactness.
Virtually identical to the HDC-HS700/TM700/SD700 models in performance as well as in physical form-factor, the SD600 merely lacks their manual control functions and EVF (electronic viewfinder). This may prove to be a sensible move on the company’s part, given that lots of HD camera users are willing to sacrifice both manual controllability and the EVF in order to save money and benefit from a product that’s slightly smaller and more portable.
Availability
We’re told that the HDC-SD600 will be available to purchase in Europe from May 2010. We will, of course, post more info when we receive it.
Source: Panasonic UK Press Release. Additional text by Colin Barrett, SimplyDV. Image courtesy of Panasonic. Used by permission.
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#2 written by andysears 1 year ago
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Hi Andy – I’d always opt for a SDHC Class 4 (or higher) card, and I always use a premium brand like Panasonic or Sandisk. The card speed is important because it determines the ability of the system to write data into its flash memory and then – of course – read it from the memory during playback. However (and here’s where I’ll contradict the advice just given) I mistakenly lent somebody a Class 2 Sandisk 8GB SDHC card last week in order to make a recording with a Panasonic HDC-SD60 at 17Mbps and although I intended to let them have a Class 4 card the recording they made (of a stage performance) was perfectly OK!
Colin
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hi thanks for that, Ill go with the class 4 card- dont want to make any mistakes. will let you know how I get on