Manufacturer Description The Panasonic VDR-D300 DVD Palmcorder Camcorder with 3CCD Camera System and Optical Image Stabilizer is compatible with either DVD-RAM or DVD-R, giving you multiple recording and playback options. DVD-R discs are tough and versatile, and may be played back on most home DVD players. However, DVD-RAM discs grant you to record and erase, just like videotapes. DVD-RAM discs may be played back in compatible devices, like DVD players and computers. Since DVD Camcorders use a “non-contact” method to record and play, repeated playback doesn’t affect the effigy quality like it may with videotape. Your favored videos and images may be held for years without any loss of quality. Plus, DVD-RAM discs may be rewritten approximately 100,000 times, making them an economical and idealisti choice for repeated recording.
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3.1-megapixel still pictures recording
Both motion and still pictures are superb. Photos are so bright and real, you may take delight in them as high-quality prints or as breathtaking images on a large-screen TV.
10x optical zoom
Distant subjects may be enlarged so they appear to be right up close. This allows dynamic shots of both motion and still pictures.
High-picture quality wide mode (16:9) and 2.7-inch LCD
This model offers the High-Picture-Quality Wide Mode, which develops images that make for beautiful, dramatic watching on a wide-screen TV. The effigy is processed on 16:9 area of the CCD. Because the effigy decoded has the same proportions as your wide-screen TV, there is nearly no picture quality degradation. You get gorgeous images and all the excitement and dynamism on either a wide 16:9 screen TV or a conventional 4:3 TV. This model likewise features a wide 2.7-inch LCD, making it more comfortable to frame shots when you’re shooting in 16:9 mode. You may take pleasure in shooting wide, and watching wide.
Choose the media you want with multi-format ease: DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-R
DVD camcorder models may record and play DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs. With the DVD-RAM disc, you may record again and again on the same disc, up to tens of thousand times, and view it without any finalizing process. You may record repeatedly on DVD-RW discs as well, and they are well suitable to editing. While you may record only once on DVD-R discs, they may be played back on almost any kind of DVD player or recorder. With DVD camcorder’s wide compatibility, you may record on whichever kind of disc works best in your DVD player or recorder.
Select the recording mode to match your needs: XP, SP, LP mode
This unit records in VBR. VBR is an abbreviation for Variable Bit Rate. VBR recording mechanically varies the bit rate (amount of selective information in a fixed time) depending on the subject being recorded. This means if a subject with sharp movements is recorded, the recording time is reduced.
One-touch navigation & joystick control
The joystick makes the camera much more comfortable to use, letting you control all basic operations with one hand. As you shoot, just watch the effigy in the monitor and follow the instruction guide. You may handle a number of operations quickly and easily, without even taking your eye off the subject.
Help mode
Not sure what a sure icon means
Just switch on the Help mode and select the icon. It’s explained for you on the LCD monitor. This makes it posing no difficulty to learn the icons, and you spend less time reading the operating manual.
Quick search & access with Disc Navigator
Unlike videotape, you don’t need to rewind or fast-forward a DVD disc to search for specific scenes. The video camera LCD screen displays a list of the recorded scenes for quick and easy searching.
Edit with Disc Navigator
You may do galore polished editing using just the camera itself. For example, you may delete scenes right on the spot or alter the scene sequence to fabricate your own scenarios.
Playlist Edit
It’s easy to alter the sequence of the scenes you’ve recorded, and then play them back. (You may record up to 99 sequencing patterns on each side of the disc for easy playback.) Playlist editing and playback may be done only with scenes on the same side of the disc.
Easy Deleting
This function makes it easy to delete the scenes you don’t want and to save the ones you do. You may also split up motion pictures and delete only parts of them.
Easy on/off
When you open the LCD, the power switches on. Shut it and the power goes off. Pull out the viewfinder and the power switches on. Store it and the power goes off. Easy On/Off reduces the time required for operating the camera.
Anti-ground shooting
The O.I.S. linear motor scheme may observe when the camera is in an strange shooting position – such as when you’ve inadvertently left it on in recording mode. In these cases, the camera mechanically stops recording, saving both battery power and disc space. Set to OFF when shipped from the factory. To turn Anti Ground Shooting ON, the setting ought to be made on the menu screen.
0 Lux Color Night View with Light Panel for shooting in total darkness.
Designed for shooting in total darkness, this function shoots four frames per second using the LCD monitor as a light source. Pictures are clear and sharp thanks to the hand-shake compensation provided by the O.I.S. Light from the LCD is tame and easy on the eyes, so you may snap shots of sleeping children without waking them up.
Color Night View for shooting in dim light.
Color Night View gives you with no problems or difficulties flowing pictures even in dark places, where it’s ordinarily difficult to capture good shots.
No more lost lens caps
When the power is turned on, the lens cover mechanically opens. When the power goes off, the lens cover closes. You don’t have to keep removing and replacing a lens cap – or worry with regards to losing it.
No cables to connect
The DVD camcorder gives you cable-free, connection-free playback. Just slip the disc into your DVD player and let the show begin. finalizing is required before playback when you record in video mode. Please note that, depending on the format, numerous DVD discs cannot be played on a good deal of DVD players or recorders.
High-speed transfer to Panasonic Diga
With DVD’s high-speed selective information transfer, you may dub your recordings — even big volumes — speedily and without apparent effort onto a DVD video recorder’s hard disk drive. Enjoy sophisticated editing with the DVD recorder, or save your recordings onto DVD and develop a collection of your own DVDs.
High-speed info transfer to PC
USB 2.0 compatibility lets you upload a motion picture data to a PC at high speed over a single USB cable. Even if your PC has no DVD drive, you may transfer the info to a PC easily.
DVD-Movie AlbumSE 4.2 and DVDfunStudio 2.4
With DVD-MovieAlbumSE 4.2 software, which makes it easy to add titles and texts, you may manufacture your own polished, professional-looking movies. And with DVDfunStudio 2.4 software, you may burn your production onto a DVD disc for keepsakes.
What’s in the Box:
Panasonic VDR-D300, CGA-DU12 battery pack, remote control, CR2025 button-type battery, AC adaptor, shoulder strap, AC cable, USB cable, DC cable, CD-ROM, AV/S cable, 8-cm DVD-RAM disc, lens cap.
Outstanding consumer camcorder with superb image quality
