Gizmograph

Featuring 10x optical zoom, the new palm-sized SDR camcorder from Panasonic equipped with 16GB SD memory card or equal to 13 hours shooting. This camcorder shoots in DVD quality and offers easy transmitting to DVD disc through USB interface. £209

Announced yesterday in Vegas during NAB, the new Panasonic HPX-170 P2 Video Camera will hit store in fall 2008. As a fully solid-state HD camcorder, the HPX-170 P2 equipped with two P2 card slots that allows users to record up to 64 continuous minutes of the highest quality DVCPRO HD recording using 32GB P2 cards or even longer with the upcoming Panasonic’s 64GB P2 card.

The multi-format camera records in 20 HD and SD formats; in a variety of 1080i and 720p formats in DVCPRO HD, in 480i in DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO, and in 480i in DV. It’s switchable between 16:9/4:3 aspect ratios. The HPX170 offers a 20-step frame rate selection in 720p mode for variable-speed shooting in the 12fps to 60fps range to acquire fast- or slow-motion in-camera effects. For added creative flexibility, professionals can select from a variety of advanced gamma functions and settings including a CineGammaTM mode.