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Panasonic HDC-SD9
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Features of the Panasonic HDC-SD9 include:
- Progressive 1920x1080p recording (25p)
- 3CCD Camera System
- Face Detection
- Pre-Rec Function
- 0.6 sec Quick start
- 5.1-Channel Surround Sound System & Zoom Mic
Panasonic HDC-SD9 Consumer Reviews
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Reviewed by Bax Films on 22/04/2009
This cam is very very small and light, well it used to be the smallest cam in the world ( sorry smallest HD cam), Plus it has very easy menu, like alway with any equipment first i try to use it without reading manual and see what happens, well i figure out everything just in under 5 minutes , then study few pages on recording from manual and i was ready to go and test camera with different setting, one of which is macro, and its very very good. some please from here i having problems playing ? well its 2009 its time to have a descent dvd player, well if you buy a hd cam why dont you buy other equipment as good as your cam, i have a sony dvd hd player and sony ps3, i connected my sd card to laptop copy paste files from camera to HDD drive and connected it to ps3 and it works very well with a amazing quality, then just for fun i tried to connect my card to dvd player and it works as well, but i didnt bought this camera just to record and play back which came out to be very easy, not even a need to connect any wires :) which is a very good thing. i work with edding my videos on afer affects cs4 and vegas 9.0 they both very well
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Reviewed by Dolu on 06/04/2009
Please dont waste your money on this rubblish cam, its hard and I mean it, realy hard to convert to dvd beacuse it use sd card then it have run on hd software to convert to dvd. I had this dvd can for over year and only used twice because of diffculities, finaly I got rid of it by selling it. think twice before you buy this product....
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Reviewed by Mark Wilson on 10/01/2009
My experience with the SD-9 started out favourably as it recorded video without problem. However, when I came to review the recorded video, I was grossly disappointed to find that not only was HDMI output totally inoperative, it had a major fault that completely disabled my HDMI system. Although the camera was replaced more or less without quibble, the replacement has exactly the same fault. I have rated it as '1 - poor' but I would have given it a '0 - unacceptable' if sucha choice was available, after all, a camera on which you cannot play back the recorded video is virtually useless.
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Reviewed by Chris Brierley on 19/05/2008
You can buy better or smaller. There are lots of reviews on this cam on the web,so I will not repeat much of what others have said.The cam is full HD,small,like a 25ml drink's can and weighs little.It does not come with a case and Panasonic say they will not make one.(If you want a case try this zoom lens case, Lowepro Lens Case 1N.) The SD-9 is made of what looks and feels like a very cheap plastic and none of the controls have a good feel to them,I must say I was not impressed when I first took it out of the box. Performance in good light is excellent but it does tend to over expose a little,which can cause whites to lose detail,use of the intellegent contrast helps to some extent. In poor light video noise does tend to increase and this will be made much more obvious when viewing the footage on a large HD tv.When viewed on a smaller tv or computer the noise may be acceptable to some but this is missing the point of having an HD cam/tv.Using either of the manual low light options increases the noise much more.Even though video can be taken in near total darkness the resulting video is not really fit to use. Apart from point and shoot and zooming,the cam is difficult to use because all the other controls are placed in the space on the side where the screen goes.This means two handed operation on controls you cannot see unless you turn the cam sideways.To make matters even worse the four way control,which is used to select a lot of functions,is very small,stiff and almost impossible to operate first time.It ranks as the worst control by a light year that I have ever found on any cam,remote control or phone etc.It is so sharp that it will leave dents in your finger. Panasonic,in their desire to make the cam so small,had to move the controls to the side because there was not enough room on the rear of the cam and as far as I am concerned it is a design compromise too far. Another problem I found,and which I have not as yet seen mentioned elsewhere,is noise from the auto focus motor on the sound track,this is unacceptable on a camera in this class. I can make no comment on editing or ease of handling files as I am returning the cam and choosing something else. If you want something better,the Canon HF-10 is only a few mm larger and in reviews against the SD-9 out performs it in every way,especially under low light,but it is currently much more expensive. If you want something even smaller go for the Sony HDR-TG3,which is about the size of many mobile phones.I would like both but can only justify having one.
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