Panasonic has just made a nice addition in its popular AVCCAM line with a lighter and slimmer handheld camcorder the AG-HMC40 that weighs even less than 2.2pounds. Though it’s lighter and slimmer, yet you will find it loaded with many impressive features like 10.6mp high-resolution still photo capturing, 3MOS full HD imagers, AVCHD solid-state recoding on SD cards and high quality 12X optical zooming.

A high profile AVC/H.264 MPEG-4 encoding has been used in this AVCHD format based HMC40 camcorder. It offers enhanced video performance as well as double bandwidth efficiency on the previous MPEG-2 formats like DVD and HDV. When it comes to HD recordings, you will definitely find them quite clean and crispy.

It also houses some nice profession image functions that include DRS to adjust according to wider lighting variations, a Gamma mode like Cine that gives a really film like touch to the recordings.

It can record in all proficient recording modes available for AVCCAM that include the HA, PH, HG and HE mode.

With a 32GB SDHC memory card, it allows users to record 1920×1080 resolution audio and video for three hours in PH mode, four in HA, 5.3hrs in HG and over 12hrs in HD content,

You can also expand its audio capability as it features +48V, 2-channel input as well as mic/line switchable as separate options that you can purchase with it. Focus assist, wave from monitor display and date time stamp are some other worth-mentioning professional features.

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