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30 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Beautiful HD picture. Records video files to SDHC memory card. Respectable battery life. Works with external mics.
No headphone jack to monitor audio. No accessory shoe for addons. Capturing footage is slow in iMovie. Storing video requires lots of hard drive space.
Panasonic’s HDC-SD1 captures great pictures, but using iMovie ’08 to capture and store the footage to your hard drive takes too long and can quickly fill up even monster-sized drives. You probably won’t mind these problems if you only ed...
The HDC-SD1 is a fantastic cutting edge piece of technology that finally does away with the need for tapes. It's small and light, delightfully easy to use and most of all takes superb high definition images. The AVCHD codec means that few editing applicat...
Noisy compression
Editing solutions few and processor intensive
Handling
On the runway this year, the Panasonic HDC-SD1 ($1299 MSRP) is turning heads. It’s small, sexy, and generates an appealing video image in bright light. The SD1 is also the first AVCHD camcorder to record directly onto bite-sized SDHC cards, and prov...
Smallest and lightest three-CCD HD camcorder currently available, records AVCHD to memory card, good array of manual controls, optical image stabilization
Disappointing battery life, limited editing options, included 4GB SDHC card holds only about 40 minutes of HD recordings
The smallest and lightest three-CCD HD camcorder currently available is the Panasonic HDC-SD1, a sleek and ultraportable device that records to SD or SDHC memory cards using the new AVCHD format. AVCHD records at 1,080i and 720p using the MPEG4 AVC vi...
Abstract: The HDC-SD1 ($1299 MSRP) and HDC-DX1 camcorders from Panasonic mark the company’s first foray into consumer high definition video. They join a burgeoning niche of $1000 - $1300 HD camcorders. Unlike the DX1, which records to DVD, the HDC-SD1 is the...
Abstract: It was last year during the CEATEC that Panasonic gave us the possibility to see the 1st prototype of their compact camcorder with support of the new "AVCHD "video codec (developed by Sony and Panasonic) and SDHC cards only for the video (see pictures ...
Beautiful industrial design
Takes high-def video with surround sound
Compact and lightweight
Expensive
No HDMI cable supplied
No accessory shoe (hot or cold)
This camcorder is amazing. I’m not given to hyperbole but the HDC-SD1 is at the top of the pack for consumer camcorders circa early 2007. Given its size, design—and most important—the quality of its high-def video, anyone looking to be o...
Abstract: Panasonic HDC-SD1 Panasonics HDC-SD1 is the worlds smallest high-definition camcorder. It achieves this feat by using flash memory in the form of a Secure Digital card. The 4GB SD card supplied in the box is good for about an hour...
