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(based on 1 ratings)
Brand: Panasonic
Located in: CAMERA, Camcorders, Hard Disk Drive
40GB Hard Disk Drive
Holding as much data as 28 DVD discs, the internal hard drive lets you record continuously for up to 36 hours without changing a disc, memory card or other recording media.

42x Optical Zoom
This 42x zoom can fill the screen with even a distant subject. This lens is not only the powerful zoom offered in a home-use digital camcorder, it also features low distortion. And because it's optical, there is no quality loss - you get the images in all their natural beauty.

High Quality 2.7-inch Wide LCD Screen
This model offers the High-Picture-Quality Wide Mode, which produces images that make for beautiful, dramatic viewing on a wide-screen TV. The image is processed on 16:9 area of the CCD. Because the image decoded has the same proportions as your wide-screen TV, there is virtually no picture quality degradation. You get beautiful images and all the excitement and dynamism on either a wide 16:9 screen TV or a conventional 4:3 TV. This model also features a wide 2.7-inch LCD, making it easier to frame shots when you're shooting in 16:9 mode. You can enjoy shooting wide, and viewing wide.

Advanced O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization)
Panasonic's Advanced O.I.S. is a new image stabilizing function that achieves around eight times higher precision than our previous system. The system uses gyro-sensors to detect hand-shake, then shifts a lens and adjusts its optical axis to compensate. And while our previous system checked and compensated for hand-shake around 500 times per second, the new Advanced O.I.S. works around 4,000 times per second. Advanced O.I.S. enables finer, more effective hand-shake compensation. Also, because the system is optical, no image quality is lost. With Advanced O.I.S., you'll capture images that are clear, sharp and beautiful on a big TV screen.

Pure Color Engine
The Pure Color Engine converts the CCD output signal from a complementary color signal into an RGB signal at an early stage and extracts the low-frequency luminance component from the RGB signal. This innovative engine also achieves truly superb color reproduction for high-zoomed pictures.

High Quality MPEG2 Engine
Panasonic's MPEG2 engine is a wide-range, high-precision search engine that produces smooth, beautiful motion pictures. Because it precisely records the differences in each frame, it can render fast, complex motions - like those of athletes in the thick of the action - with exceptional precision.The MPEG2 engine also uses Variable Bit Rate technology that Panasonic developed for the high-end DIGA DVD recorder. Giving LP recordings nearly twice the resolution captured with previous Panasonic camcorders, this lets the camcorder record clear, smoothly flowing pictures.
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Avg. Customer Rating:
 
3 stars
(based on 1 review)

[0 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

 
Great camera, bad software
By sVerified Purchaser from florida on 12/5/2008
Pros:
Comfortable to Operate, Great Picture Quality, Great Sound, Simple Controls
Cons:
Inadequate Features
Best Uses:
Home Movies, Travel
Describe Yourself:
Video Enthusiast
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Comments about Panasonic SDR-H40 40GB Hard Disk Drive Camcorder:

Love the camera, but its file format is VERY limiting. The software will not work on a Mac. The editing software in one word - SUCKS. Unfortunately, you need the software just to download video clips to your PC, but because it is MPEG-4 it isn't compatible with many editing programs unless they have the latest codecs.

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