Overview:

Easy Shooting, Easy Viewing
When it comes to shooting videos, simpler is better. Panasonic DVD Palmcorders make it exceptionally easy to capture your precious memories directly onto several DVD formats (DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-R/DL). The camera automatically finds a blank section on the disc for recording so there's no need to rewind or fast-forward, and an index screen makes it easy to search for a particular scene. When you finish shooting, just take the disc out of the camcorder and slip it right into your DVD player or recorder for immediate playback — there's no need to connect any cables.

Suppress Camera Shake — Even on a Big-Screen TV
Imagine taking video shots on a moving boat and then viewing them on a large-screen TV. They're likely to appear blurry from the boat's movement and from your unsteady hands. Panasonic solves this problem with O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer), which minimizes hand-shake in situations where it is most often a problem, such as with zoom shots — or on a moving boat. The system is optical, so there is no quality loss, and images look clear and beautiful on a big-screen TV.

Triple Beauty: Remarkable Color, Detail and Gradation
Enjoy vivid color, crisp detail, and subtle gradation with 3CCD, the system used by most professional broadcast cameras. In a 1CCD system, all incoming light information is processed by the same CCD. The more advanced 3CCD system uses three distinct CCDs for processing, so there is absolutely no light loss. The result: beautifully rendered, natural-looking images every time.

Features:

• Records onto: 8cm DVD Disc
• Recording Format: MPEG2
• Image Sensor (Total): 1/6" CCD (800K x 3 pixels)
• Image Sensor (Effective): 
  • 4:3 -- 640K x 3
  • 16:9 -- 540K x 3
    (Moving Picture)
  • 4:3 -- 710K x 3
  • 16:9 -- 540K x 3
    (Still Picture)
• F Value: F1.8 (Wide) / F2.8 (Tele)
• Optical Zoom: 10x Variable Speed
• Focal Length: 3.0 - 30 mm
• Filter Diameter: 37mm
• 35mm Film Camera Equivalent: 
  • 4:3 -- 45.6 - 456mm
  • 16:9 -- 46.7 - 467mm
    (Moving Picture)
  • 4:3 -- 43.4 - 434mm
  • 16:9 -- 47.0 - 470mm
    (Still Picture)<
• Lens Type: Leica Dicomar
• 3CCD Camera System: Yes
• Image Stabilizer: Optical Image Stabilizer (O.I.S.)
• Minimum Illumination: 1 Lux (Magic Pix®)
• White Balance: Auto/Indoor/Outdoor/Manual
• High Speed Shutter: 
  • 1/60 - 1/8,000 sec. (Moving Picture)
  • 1/30 - 1/2,000 sec. (Still Picture)
• Iris: AF/Manual
• Backlight Compensation: Yes
• Electronic Viewfinder (EVF): 0.33" wide (113K pixels) Color
• LCD Monitor: 2.7" wide (123K pixels)
• Manual Focus Ring: Yes
• Soft-Skin Mode: Yes
• MagicPix Images: Yes
• Microphone: 
  • Stereo Zoom Mic
  • Wind Noise Reduction
• Date Recording: Auto Date (in Date Code)
• Wide Mode (16:9): Yes
• On-Screen Display Language: English / French / Spanish
• Digital Zoom 1: 10x - 700x
• Flash: No
• Quick Start: No
• Web Camera Function 2: No
• Applicable Disc: 
  • 8cm DVD-RAM Ver. 2.1
  • 8cm DVD-R for General Ver. 2.0
  • 8cm DVD-RW Ver. 1.1 2x-speed (2x/1x)
  • DVD-R for DL Ver. 3.0
• Cue and Review: Forward/Reverse
• Skip: Forward/Reverse
• Recording Mode: XP/SP/LP
• Still Picture: 
        JPEG Picture Size:
  • 3.1 MEGA: 2048 x 1512 (4:3)
  • 2.0 MEGA:1920 x 1080 (16:9)
  • 1.0 MEGA: 1280 x 960 (4:3)
  • 0.3 MEGA: 640 x 480 (4:3)
• Built-in SD Slot: Yes (SD/SDHC)
• DPOF: Max. 999 stills
• PictBridge Compatible: Yes
• S-Video Out: Yes
• Mini DV In/Out (IEEE 1394): No
• Video Output: AV out
• HDMI: No
• USB: 2.0 High Speed (mini B)
• Microphone (stereo mini): Yes
• Headphone (M3): No
• Accessory Shoe: Cold
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 3.36'' x 3.76'' x 5.96''
• Weight: 1.12 lbs