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Panasonic launches new HD camcorders and 32GB SD card

By Nate Lanxon on 07 January 2008, 7:43am

This is Panasonic's new HDC-SD9 camcorder. It boasts 3CCDs, full 1080p HD recording and it's pitched as the world's smallest and lightest SD-based HD camcorder on the market.

The Advanced Mega OIS (optical image stabilisation) is apparently eight times more effective at stabilising images, by checking and compensating for shaking a whopping 4,000 times every second.

More interesting still is the camera's adoption of facial recognition, a feature previously found only in digital still cameras. As with still cameras, the SD9's system automatically locates the whereabouts of faces on-screen and adjusts exposure and contrast, to help you shoot a better quality video. High fives all round, we say.

Other features include 5.1 surround-sound recording thanks to a bunch of built-in microphones, and high-speed burst shooting for those of you wanting to take up to 24 still images a second.

The HDC-SD9 will be on sale around March this year for an expected price of about $800 (£400), though you can bet your rear end we'll end up paying more than the Yanks.

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