Panasonic HDC-SD1 Videocam

Oh, the joys of being a gadget-geek1 Yesterday marked the arrival of my new videocam, the Panasonic HDC-SD1. I have been watching and drooling over this camera for quite some while now. I actually heard about it the first time on a some podcast on Twit, Leo Laporte and his crew were praising this camera alot.

One of the special features is that it only uses SD memory-cards to save videos in the new AVCHD format. No DV-tape, no DVD. This means that there are essentially no moving parts. Another adantage is that you don't have to reel the material onto the computer in real-time (i.e. 60 minute tape takes 60 min. to transder). With the SD-card you just transfer the file to the computer which is very swift. Compared to tapes, you can access the video material sequentially without having to rewind or fast forward. And to top it all off it's much lighter than my previous cam (a Canon MV600i).