Video Cameras / Digital Video / Hard Drive Camcorder

Panasonic HDC-HS100 60GB HDD AVCHD

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• Full High Definition 1920 x 1080 Recording - For intricate detail & rich colours.
• 3MOS Sensor - To capture rich expressive video with vivid colours and super fine details.
• Leica Dicomar Lens with 12 x optical zoom & focus - High quality lens that suppresses ghosts and flaring.
• Advanced Optical Image Stabiliser - Compensates for handshake.
• 60GB HDD - Allows up to 23 hours of footage (in HE mode)

1920 x 1080 full-HD images 

The highest level of HD quality there is. Viewed on an HDTV, the pictures are so sharp and clear that you can even distinguish textures.

Face Detection

Face Detection automatically senses the ambient lighting and adjusts  the exposure accordingly, so faces are bright and easy to see. The focus also proritises the faces, and skin tones are smoothed. Faces in the centre of the frame serve as the reference for adjustments, but the function can detect up to 15 faces in all.

With Face Detection, there's no longer a need to use different correction functions in different kinds of shooting situations.

Intelligent Auto

In iA mode the image stabilization, contrast correction and face detection functions are automatically activated

Intelligent Scene Selector

The Scene Selector function analyses the shooting situation and automatically switches the camcorder to the scene mode that will give you optimal results. Face Mode automatically detects when there's a face in the frame and adjusts the exposure to capture it correctly. Scenery Mode balances the exposure over the entire frame to prevent brighter parts of the image, such as the sky, from being washed out or having blown highlights. Spotlight Mode can be used for scenes with particularly strong contrast, such as when you are shooting a spotlit area on a darkened stage. It captures the well-lit supject perfectly and prevents washed-out areas.  Low Light Mode is used in dim lighting. It automatically switches to a slower shutter speed so that images across the entire frame are bright and easy to see.

Intelligent contrast control

Intelligent Contrast Control detects the ambient light level and adjusts the exposure accordingly, preventing blown highlights and blocked shadows. You capture natural looking, highly nuanced images with proper contrast.

Mic Input and Headphone Jack

The SD100 features a mic input on the front of the camcorder and a headphone jack on the side. Plug in an external mic or headphones (both optional) if desired.

3MOS Sensor

The SD100 features Panasonic's new 3MOS sensor, With about 2 times the light-receiving area of a CCD sensor, this high-sensitivity, high-precision imaging element captures vibrant, faithful colour and provides an outstanding performance in low lighting. The 3MOS system uses separate MOS sensors to capture the red, green and blue light components, so no light is wasted. You can capture rich, expressive video with vivid colours and super-fine details that make your images come alive.

Advanced O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer)

Panasonic's advanced O.I.S. suppresses the effects of hand-shake as you shoot.  This extraordinary system uses gyrosensors to detect even the tiny amounts of hand-shake, then shifts a lens and adjusts the optical axis to compensate - all at an astounding 4,000 times per second. Because the system is optical, there's no loss of image quality. You get all the beauty and none of the blurring. The SD100 take Panasonic's advanced O.I.S. a step further, with a correction area that's about 3 times as large as in previous models. With this enhanced correction capability, even zoomed images are incredibly clear, sharp and beautiful.

New Leica Dicomar Lens

The SD100 also introduces a new high-performance Leica lens in which both resolution and contrast have been improved by refinements to our low-dispersion lens and aspherical lens. The lens is highly refractive too, making it possible to pack a pwerful 12x zoom into a compact body. A multi-coating process applied to all lens surfaces helps suppress ghosts and flaring, so you get sharp, crisp images even in  strong outdoor lighting. The superb rendering ability of this advanced camcorder lens makes it ideal for capturing expressive full-HD images.

Manual Ring

The manual ring gives you easy, fingertip control over the focus, zoom and exposure settings. You'll find using the ring a much more intuitive, comfortable, user-friendly process than accessing a menu screen. With the manual ring and manual operation, the SD100 is a pleasure to use and gives you the freedom to craft unusually expressive images.

Supplied Accessories

• VW-VBG130 Battery
• Battery Charger
• AC Adapter
• AV Cable
• Component Cable
• USB Cable
• Remote Control
• CD-ROM
• Manual