Panasonic AG-HMC40: Low Cost Professional Camcorder




Panasonic has unveiled the Panasonic AG-HMC40 camcorder, its latest in the line of its professional AVCCAM system. It is a more lightweight, more compact camcorder design with portability in mind. Features includes full HD 3MOS imagers, a 10.6-megapixal still photo capture, 12X optical zoom and solid-state AVCHD recording. It uses MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 high profile encoding which is greatly superior to the older MPEG-2 compression format. This cam can record in the following AVCCAM recording modes namely;

  • PH mode (average 21 Mbps/Max 24Mbps)

  • HA mode (approx.17 Mbps)

  • HG mode (approx.13 Mbps)

  • Extended recoring HE mode (approx. 6 Mbps)





When using PH Mode , users can record approximately three hours of full resolution 1920x1080, four hours at HA mode, 5.3 hours at HG mode and 12 hours of 1440x1080 HD content using only a single 32 GB SDHC card per mode.

Source: panasonic.com
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