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Panasonic SDR-S10 – Camcorder Info

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Camcorder Info have posted their initial review of the Panasonic SDR-S10 flash camcorder. ‘The Panasonic SDR-S10 memory card camcorder breaks new ground for Panasonic. The new model comes from a company that built its consumer camcorder reputation on models that offer better manual controls than their peers and above average video performance. While the same excellent manual control suite is in effect on the S10, we expect video performance to be on par with other 1/6" single chip camcorders, which is to say - mediocre. What sets this little number apart from the rest of the Panasonic pack is the video-sharing, youthful, active market for which it was designed - a market the company had not pursued until now.

Panasonic's three-chip camcorders are perennially among the strongest video performers on the consumer market, but its one-chip counterparts are mediocre. Last year, about the DVD-D100, we wrote "...it yields is a balanced but rather flat looking picture." That camcorder produced an image that was slightly better than average among bottom-of-the-line DVD camcorders but much poorer than Panasonic's DVD-D300, which had a stunningly good picture. The comparison to the VDR-D100 is apropos because this camcorder shares a 1/6-inch CCD with 680K gross pixels and 340K effective pixels in native 4:3 mode. In 16:9 mode, which letterboxes the image, the effective count drops to 300K effective. (There is a slight bump in still mode to 350K effective pixels.)’

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