Typical price: £425
What is it: Compact camcorder that records to SD card
What we think: It's packed with features but performance and quality don't stand up, plus there are some design flaws
What you need to know
Reviewed on: 4 September 2008
Tags: panasonic, cover, lens, exposure
We like:
Compact and lightweight; saturated colours
We don't like:
Moderate to low-light videos look cloudy; some awkward design choices; smallish LCD with terrible colour reproduction; awful bundled software
CNET UK judgement:
The Panasonic HDC-SD9's compact size is great and it's relatively inexpensive, which is always a good thing. But despite its trio of CCDs, the video quality and performance are too inconsistent for us to give it a full thumbs-up
Panasonic HDC-SD9 History
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