Panasonic HDC-SD9 Camcorder

I bought this to record my families parties, events, etc. The quality on this baby is amazing! I highly recommend this camcorder. Don't let the camera size fool you, this is a good camcorder.

I 've read a lot of reviews before purchasing this camcorder. Excellent video in sun light, even overall it 's a little bit yellowish to my taste. Amazon is best price, and they refund me the difference when the price went lower in within 30 days after purchase. Low light is OK. and I found it better than the JVC HD camcorder that my brother has. Extremely low light is not acceptable. I do not have time to test the 5.1 audio on my NAD receiver. Insert the SD card in to a playstation 3 SD slot and there you go. Or copy the files to a DVD and watch it thru the PS3 bluray drive. HD resolution! Go for it! Small size and picture quality will make you happy.

I liked it very much. i bought it to capture moments of my new born baby, and its fantastic, very light, easy to handle, good looking, good quality pictures.

The camera is very impressive, intuitive and small. The quality of the picture is excellent. Playback is easy. It was good choice.

I'll start by saying that I did what seemed like endless research and tried out every camera in this range before ultimately deciding on this one. What I hope to do with this review is share my experiences and hopefully provide the kind of information I wanted to see when I was doing research. Now, about the specifics of this camera. It's a 3CCD model, which was one of the major selling points for me. I do a lot of outdoor shooting of high action sports (rock climbing), and this camera surprised me with it's quality and it's ability to capture colors so accurately. The 3CCD design also means that if you're going to be doing some blue/green screen effects that you'll get a better key. It's build quality is very solid; and by that I mean it doesn't seem flimsy at an point. The the automatic lens cover is wonderful. It has 4 recording quality modes, and a 24p cinema mode. I use the HA1920 mode, which records 1920x1080i60 resolution at 16Mbps AVCHD and works out to 2 hours 8 minutes on ... Read more

The camera is a technical marvel. I've been wanting an HD camera ever since they came out. The HDC-SD9 has not dissapointed me. Five years ago you'd have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to get video this good. Now the downside. The files are kept in a complex file structure on the memory drive. I wasn't able to copy the MTS files from the /STREAM folder and play them on my T61 Thinkpad. I tried downloading various CODECs and stuff, but wasn't succesfull. I finally loaded the HD Writer software from Panasonic and that worked. But when I exported to MPEG the result was lousy. I haven't tried editing software with it yet, but I know this much. It will be another two to three years before this format plays in all the media players. But I can't see this format failing so I'll be glad I have my kids in HD later on. Bottom line is that the technology and price are right, but file-format ease of use is still a few years away. You'll love making videos, but you'll hate po... Read more