• Panasonic Cameras

  Panny HMC40

  Posted by Mike Cohen on November 20, 2009 at 1:00 am

  
  3-megapixel, 1/4-inch 3MOS imager, the HMC40 produces stunning 1920×1080 video in AVCHD (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264)

  Just how “stunning” do the 1/4″ chips get? We have a V1U which is great in bright light and uses 1/4″ CMOS chips but pretty dismal in poor lighting – obviously that is the price you pay for low price/small chips.

  Is this Panasonic’s answer for a higher end prosumer h.264 camera at a lower price point than the HMC-150? The ads for this are all over the COW. Just wondering if anyone has used it.

  AVCCAM is simply Panasonic’s proprietary word for AVCHD, correct? Kind of like Activia calls Bifidus active cultures “bifidus regularis”.

  Mike Cohen

  Noah Kadner replied 16 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Noah Kadner

  November 20, 2009 at 10:47 am

  Chip is dang small- you get what you pay for on that one…

  Noah

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