Panasonic 3MOS HDC-SD100 & HDC-HS100 camcorders
Panasonic couldn’t be very far from the new JVC Everio videocamera models covered earlier. They sport 3MOS sensors, Panasonic argues that these are more sensitive than standard CMOS version, something to be of course proven in practice. Otherwise, both have a 2.7 inch screen, HDMI, full HD 1920×1080 resolution and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound.
AVCHD is already Panasonic’s format of choice for this category of cams. The HDC-HS100 has 60GB hard disc storage, while its HDC-SD100 stores your videos -as the name betrays- on SD/SDHC cards that at the moment reach up to 32GB.
If you haven’t noticed, tape is absent from all recent hybrid cam announcements and flash card capacities are inching ever closer to those of small portable hard discs. Solid state is here to stay!
