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Panasonic SDR-H40 40GB Hard Drive Camcorder with 42x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
Panasonic SDR-H40 40GB Hard Drive Camcorder with 42x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
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Brand: Panasonic
Category: Photography

List Price: $449.95
Buy New: $278.96
You Save: $170.99 (38%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars(60 reviews)
Sales Rank: 156

Color: silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Monitor Size: 270
Includes Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 42
Digital Zoom: 70
Connectivity: AV
Display Size: 2.7
Maximum Focal Length: 75.6
Minimum Focal Length: 1.8
Maximum Resolution: 380000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 4.6 x 2.6 x 2.8

MPN: SDR-H40
Model: SDR-H40
UPC: 037988255979
EAN: 0037988255979
ASIN: B0011FWU5Q

Release Date: January 31, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Capture video to hard disk drive; 40 GB storage for up to 36 hours of footage
  • 42x optical zoom
  • Anti-Shock Shield for hard drive protection
  • Panasonic's Advanced Mega OIS technology
  • Compatible with SD/SDHC memory cards

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
records MPEG-2 video files to built-in memory * 800,000-pixel CCD (380K effective) * digital photo mode with top resolution of 640 x 480 * 2-11/16" widescreen LCD * 42X optical zoom lens (digital zoom to 2000X) *


Customer Reviews:   Read 55 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Instant success   January 6, 2009
This camera was out of the box and taking video's of baby's first christmas within minutes - easily downloaded to PC for sharing and editing...a must have if you have growing kids!


1 out of 5 stars Very poor video, poor sound; software and customer service sucks   December 22, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought the camcorder for our newborn. We did most of the shooting inside home. I was so disappointed with the video quality. Then I used my Canon SD1100IS digital still camera to take videos. That is so superior to the Panasonic videos.

The software never worked. I could never figure out how the various items in the software work. The manual or the website just does not give enough information on how to use the software.

I never found out the pixel dimension and other attributes of the three types of video qualities. I read every page of the manual.

I was so disappointed with the camcorder. After a month's use, I sold it in craigslist with a loss of over $100. Still, I am happy. I got rid of a such a nasty product and my still camera gives me better ... FAR better video than this crap. If it sounds weird, compare video and audio quality of SDR-H40 with Canon digital still camera.



4 out of 5 stars SDR-H40   December 20, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a better than average camcorder, tons of recording time, average battery life, spectacular optical zoom, and smaller than you could imagine. the only downside is the recording quality on the best XP isnt that great especially when you blow it up on a tv. I used it to go snowboarding and made a facebook video and it turned out pretty good, if your looking to archive family events to watch on a tv later, I suggest going with a higher quality SD camcorder or a HD camcorder. For the record, because I am using this for "extreme" sports I bought a SDHC Card so if it got bumped around while it was recording to the hard drive it wouldn't mess any internals up. I got a 16gb from amazon for about 40 bucks.Transcend 16 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card with Compact Card Reader All in all it was about what I expected it to be.


5 out of 5 stars Great Camcorder!   December 19, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I purchased this camcorder for my father in late October. I went to Circuit City to check it out before I bought it. It's very small and doesn't have a lot of buttons...which is good for my dad (he's 50). It was also recommended by the guy at Circuit City. He convinced me to buy the 40gb as opposed to the 60gb because I could get a cheap 8gb memory stick and make this a 48gb camcorder...which allows for a ton of filming.

Make sure you put the OIS on before use. It was $400 at Circuit City but I got it on Amazon for $250. I haven't seen it drop back down since then. I bought one of the camcorder bags that was a suggestion as well...it fits nicely with the camcorder and is very well built.



5 out of 5 stars Panasonic Video Camera   December 16, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The Panasonic SDR-H40 provides excelent video and comes with free software that allows fast uploads to my PC as well as very good editing capabilities.


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