Panasonic SDR-H280

3CCD 30GB Hard Disc Drive Camcorder

• Hybrid recording SD/30GB HDD with up to 27 hours Stable Continuous Recording and 2 MP Still Picture Recording

• 3CCD Camera System - Superior colour, detail and gradation

• Tele-Macro - Sharp focusing even right up close

• High-Picture-Quality 2.7 inch Wide Power LCD Plus Screen - Shoot wide, view wide, that's esy to see indoors or out

• Leica Dicomar Lens - Superior Leica-certified image quality

30GB Hard Disc Drive (HDD) - Perfect for taking on a long trip or recording long events. 
The internal 30GB* hard disk drive holds as much video data as about 22 8-cm DVD discs. That means you can record for around 27** hours without changing a disc, tape or anything else. This SD Card/Hard Disk video camera is perfect for people who want to shoot for hour after hour without worrying about memory space.

*A 30GB hard disk utilizes a portion of the storage space for formatting and other purposes. Usable capacity will be less. 1 GB means 1,000,000,000 bytes.
**In LP mode
 
3CCD Camera System
3CCD camera system works by splitting the light received through the lens into its three primary colour components (red, green and blue), and the signal from each is processed by one of the three CCDs. Compared with conventional 1CCD camera systems, Panasonic's 3CCD system provides more vivid, true-to-life colours, greater detail and richer gradation.

Optical Image Stabilisation (O.I.S.)
Panasonic's O.I.S. minimises the hand shake than can be such a problem with hand held shots. This system is optical, menaing there is no image degradation.
 
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-SD9 features 12 lens elements in eight groups and uses low-dispersion optical glass to reduce colour blurring. A special multi-coating process is applied to the 14 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.