Panasonic’s new HD camcorder, the HDC-HS350, is all about the storage. The camera has a huge 240GB hard drive crammed inside and, if that wasn’t enough, you can also jam in a SD card to grab some extra footage.
The camera will record that HD footage for a full thirty hours before filling up, or 100 hours of standard-def, and the images are supplied by the Panasonic-invented 3MOS sensor, a 10.6 megapixel chip which acts like three separate CMOS sensors which grab red, green and blue light separately. The most immediate advantage is that the chips can shoot in very low light, down to 2 lux.
You also get niceties like auto follow-focus, anti-shake correction (which will lop off some of the frame, just like iMovie does) and a Leica lens with a 12x zoom. Price and release dates are as yet unconfirmed.
Product page [Panasonic via Crunchgear]
