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The HDC-SD1 (USD1300) and HDC-DX1 (USD1120) camcorders presented by Panasonic label the company’s 1st raid high definition video. Dissimilar to the DX1 that make recordings on DVD, the HDC-SD1 is the 1st of its form, which records AVCHD video onto SD/SDHC cards. The HDC-SD1 is a glossy, compact, and exciting. It also touts a few impressive characteristics, these features include the finest optical image stabilization scheme we have examined this yr.This model imparted us a microphone jack however no earphone jack, a single “enigma” zebra adjusting, and a average focus assistance.

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The Panasonic HDC-SD1 (USD1120) is loaded with three 1/4inch Charge-coupled devices, all providing a gross pixel number of 560,000 and an effective pixel number of 520,000.

Firstly, we would like to consider the image in brilliant light, 3000 lux. Under these circumstances, the SD1 featured a reasonably fresh picture. Outlines and border areas were clearly defined than the Canon HV20, and featured same levels of in-camera sharpening that the Sony HDR-HC7 demonstrated. This was a right judgment on Panasonic’s part. The AVCHD develops a picture marred by compression artifacts more than HDV, even in brilliant light, reducing the apparent resolution. Sharpening makes the picture appear sharper, which appeared to even the playing field to our eye. Color strength and balance was superior. Saturation levels were distinctly supercharged, providing to irregular shooters who wish their color to pop. The manual white balance wasn't wholly precise (amazing for a Panasonic) and tended to shift the image slenderly greenish. Most of the color palette finished up appearing like to the Canon HV20, which demonstrated really fine balance.

Panasonic’s Broadcast section re-launched a fine-tuned edition of the SD1 by another name, the AG-HSC1U. Apart from a few minor decorative modifications, the important dissimilarity is that they increased the gamma curve to intimately equalize their Proline camcorders. They too threw in a really decent external DTE recording unit, and advanced the cost substantially. So if you enjoy all things of this camera but the colors, there's some other choice.

Low Light Performance

Since AVCHD camcorders have til now created a lot of noise than HDV camcorders, the low light functioning has inclined to suffer. This applied true for the Panasonic HDC-SD1. It didn't bear very much of sensitivity. At sixty lx, the aperture was already opened as broad as possible (f/1.8) and the gain, which reaches equal to 18dB, was already equal to 15dB. The shutter speed can't be brought down past 1/60 without the help of MagicPix AE mode. That doesn't allow the shooter a lot room to better picture tone on the far side the boundaries of auto style. The sixty lx picture caused a lot noise, to be sure due to the high gain adjusting. When we manually supercharged the gain to 18dB, some of the image was quenched - once more, this doesn't allow many wiggle room for consumers to play with the adjustments.

Wide Angle

We evaluate the field of view of camcorders in 16:9 ways. The zoom is adjusted to its fullest angle, image stabilization is switched off, and we consider the full video set up on a monitor derive a field of view reading. The SD1's best possible field of view was measured as 52 degrees.