The smallest HD Camcorder

The new Panasonic HD camcorder has 12 lenses in a compartment the size of your thumb for shake-free video.

Light enters the front of the camcorder through the multiple high grade lenses which are made of extremely pure glass.  These bend the light to magnify the image but not to spread out the colors.  Looms lenses inside slide back and forth to adjust zoom.  The camera can capture enough light to see in a candle lit room.

Next, the light passes to image stabilizers that smoothes out shakes and jitter from your hands.  Advanced sensors in the camera send a signal to electromagnets on the position and movement of the camera, and in turn make tiny adjustments to the lenses, as many 4000 a second, that compensate for movement.

Before the image is recorded, the light has to be divided into red, green, and blue.  Panasonic uses prisms, instead of color filters, which doesn’t take away the light.  Each stream of light strikes an image sensor that measures intensity on over 560 thousand pixels to produce vivid video.

SPECS:

Size:  2.6 x 2.6 x 5.3 inches

weight: 14 OZ.

Resolution:  1920 x 1080 pixels

Cost:  1,000$

more information:  panasonic.com

recording:  5 hours of HD video on a 32 GB SD card