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Full-HD images that bring out all the beauty of your memories. The 3MOS System in HDC-HS250 produces extremely accurate images with superb rendition of differences in darkness and light, rich color expression, and a full 1,080 lines of horizontal resolution.

Amazon Sales Rank: #7816 in Camera & Photo Brand: Panasonic Model: HDC-HS250K Dimensions: .93 pounds Display size: 2.7 AVCHD is a standard developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic for HD digital camcorders. 120 GB Shock-Mounted Hard Disc Drive: Panasonic SD card/hard-drive camcorders are ideal for travel Built-in SD / SDHC Memory Card Drive: SD memory cards are incredibly versatile 3MOS Camera System (3 x 3.05 Megapixels): The HS250 features three of Panasonic's new 1/4.1-inch 3,050,000-pixel MOS sensors. Shoot in Lighting as Low as 1.6 Lux: You can shoot clear shots in lighting as low as 1.6 lx. With the 3MOS Sensor

Full-HD images that bring out all the beauty of your memories. High Definition vs. Standard Definition: What's the difference? HD images contain 6 times as much information as standard images.  HDTV has 1,080 horizontal scan lines, SDTV has 480.  That translates into much higher resolution and much finer detail.  With HD images on an HDTV, pictures are so clear and sharp that you can see textures.  The shift in the industry from SDTV to HDTV is well underway.  For shooting once-in-a-lifetime scenes that you want to capture in full beauty, an HD camcorder is the best choice. 3MOS System for Beautiful Images For videos of important moments you want to preserve, you want high image quality.  That's what Panasonic's 3MOS System delivers, with a combination of optical technologies that further enhance the quality of full-HD images.  The 3MOS System produces extremely accurate images with superb rendition of differences in darkness and light, rich color expression, and a full 1,080 lines of horizontal resolution.  This advanced technology helps turn once-in-a-lifetime moments into vivid, beautiful images. iA (Intelligent Auto) for Smart Control There's nothing more disappointing than shooting a once-in-a-lifetime event on video, only to discover that the images are blurry or poorly exposed because of backlighting.  Panasonic's iA helps avoid problems in difficult shooting situations by automatically making the optimal camera settings and activating certain functions.  For example, iA now includes AF Tracking, a new function that "locks" on and follows a subject as it moves, so images are sharply focused and properly exposed.  This technology is a huge help for everyone. Advanced O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization) Panasonic's advanced O.I.S. helps suppress the effects of hand-shake as you shoot, for both motion and still images.  This system uses gyrosensors to detect even tiny amounts of hand-shake, then shifts a lens and adjusts the optical axis to compensate - all at an astounding 4,000 times per second.  It also covers approximately 3 times the stabilization area of our previous SD9 model.  Because the system is optical, there's only minimal loss of image quality even when viewed on a large-screen TV.  In addition, to shoot high-resolution still images, the normal O.I.S. Mode 1 is joined by an O.I.S. Mode 2, which has a higher stabilization capability.  The O.I.S. corrective lens shifts and stabilizes the image the instant that the shutter button is pressed, to enable greater precision in stabilization.  You get all the beauty and minimal blurring.

Most helpful customer reviews 61 of 61 people found the following review helpful. Great Camcorder, still needs some improvement By M. Young I got this camcorder for about two weeks already. It's very easy to start operating it even without reading the manual. The touch screen feature is great! You can basically play on the touch screen and see the difference of the picture quality right on the screen. Here's some of the Pro & Con that I think after playing with this camcorder. Pro: -Easy to use -Great video quality (I hook on my Sony 48 inches 1080p LCD screen, the picture looks great!) -Picture quality is great too if you got enough light when using indoor (outdoor, no problem) -Indoor video recording is pretty good using backlight function if indoor light is not enough. -Outdoor video quality is excellent -Digital zooming is great (I can basically zoom in and get so detail that I can see the pore of the person's face right across of the street with 3 traffic lane in between it.) -LCD touch screen is great (you can flip the screen too! You can also use fingernail to touch the screen if your fingertip is too big, the screen don't have any problem recognizing your command.) Con: -Not enough battery life (got around 90minutes of recording, good thing is that you can see how much time you got left on the LCD screen for recording so you'll know when you need to charge the battery or switch to power cord or new battery.) -You cannot charge the battery while using power cord! -The power cord plug on the camcorder is hidden underneath where you put the battery at, so you cannot use both battery and power cord at the same time (very bad when you try to record using power cord, once you accidentally pull the power cord plug, all of the recording stops, and it takes long time for camcorder to get back to recording and it also causes temporary hard drive malfunction while the camcorder trying to recover what you just record.) -You cannot turn on the light that came with the camcorder to do the recording (it's use mostly as flash function when taking picture) So far that's what I thought playing for two weeks (without reading the manual.) 31 of 31 people found the following review helpful. Great camcorder for the price! By Mad Mom I bought this camcorder primarily to videotape my daughter's gymnastics meets. I have recorded two so far and the video quality for those is excellent. The lighting in both cases was bright flourescent lighting like you would find in a high school gymnasium. I made a brief test video in my kitchen at night with just one light on and it wasn't so great. I don't know if this would be a great camcorder for birthday parties and that sort of thing. For that you would be better off getting a camera with 720 HD like the Panasonic DMC-FZ35 for less than half the price. It takes great video in a variety of lighting, but it cannot handle some of the very fast action of gymnastics without blurring. But that's another review! Pros: - Very large (120gb) built-in hard drive. - Available SD/SDHC memory card slot. - Great video in bright indoor or outdoor light - the same video quality as the HDC-HS300 that costs over $1000. - Very easy to use - my 8-year-old was taking pictures and videos and playing them back with no instructions. - Video is very easy to import to iMovie '09 on my iMac - I just attach it using the included usb cable and a window comes up allowing me to choose the clips I want to import. - The image stabilization works well - smooth footage without a tripod. - Zoom is very smooth and adequate. - Great price if you can get it for under 600 dollars. - Display shows how much battery life (in minutes) and how much recording time is remaining. Cons: - Lacks an electronic viewfinder and an external microphone jack - to get those you need the HDC-H300. - Probably not great for low light indoors. - The battery charger/AC adapter are a bit strange but you can live with it - you have to remove the battery to put in the