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Features & Benefits
1920 x 1080 Full HD Recording
Full-HD recording 1920 x 1080, provides exceptional image details and
offers a grat companion to your FHD television.
16 x Optical Zoom
You can zoom close to catch dynamic shots of distant objects. And
because the zoom is optical, there's limited image degradation. Also,
Panasonic's Advanced O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization) helps prevent
blurring - typically a big concern when shooting with a zoom. This
combination of optical zoom and Advanced O.I.S. gives you the ability to
take fantastic zoom shots.
Advanced Intelligent Auto Intellignet Scene Selector
This function analyzes the shooting situation and automatically switches
the camcorder to the Scene mode that will give you optimal results.
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 prioritizes the faces, and skin tones are smoothed. Faces in the
center of the frame serve as the reference for adjustments, but the
function can detect up to 15 faces in all.
Intelligent Contrast Control
Detects the ambient light level and adjusts the exposure accordingly,
helping to prevent blown highlights and blocked shadows. You capture
natural-looking, highly nuanced images with proper contrast.
Advanced O.I.S.
Panasonic's advanced O.I.S. helps suppress the effects of hand-shake
as you shoot. You get all the beauty of the shot, even at high zoom
levels.
AF/AE Tracking
Touch the LCD screen to indicate the subject, such as a person or an
animal, that you want to focus on,and let AF/AE Tracking do the rest.
The camera locks on the subject and follows it around, keeping it in
sharp focus and properly exposed. It keeps tracking even if the subject
turns to the side. This advanced function makes it easy to get a
continually clear, beautiful shot of the subject in the scene you care
most about.
Leica Dicomar Lens
Photographers around the world know Leica Camera AG as a maker of
superb cameras and lenses. This company's advanced optical technology
has been fused with Panasonic's leading-edge digital technology to
create the Leica Dicomar lens. The Leica Dicomar lens provided in the
HDC-SD20 features 10 lens elements in 8 groups and uses Extra
low-dispersion optical glass to reduce colour blurring. A special
multi-coating process is applied lens element surfaces to minimise
chromatic aberration, so images are crisp, clear, and free of flare and
ghosting.
*Leica is a registered trademark of Leica Microsystems IR GmbH, and
Dicomar is a registered trademark of Leica Camera AG.
iMovie - Mac Compatible
The HDC-HS20 works with iMovie editing software.
5 Microphones and 5.1 Channel Surround Sound
The HS20 is equipped with five electret condenser microphones. The
center mic helps capture the sound source and distance accurately, so
you get a more 3-dimensional effect than you get with conventional
systems, which capture all sounds from the front. You get a realistic
sound space that's a perfect match with the true-to-life HD images.
Highlight Playback
The Highlight Playback function is designed for users who want to view
recorded images as quickly as possible. It detects zooming, panning,
scene changes, increases and decreases in sound level, faces, etc., in
recorded images as "highlights" by using the I.I.S. (Intelligent Index
System). Then, it automatically plays back the detected highlight scenes
according to a set time interval. It even allows the user to select
music stored in the camcorder and plays it together with the video as
background music. Because this function plays only highlight scenes, it
makes not only playback but also recording more |
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