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Advanced O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization)
3CCD Camera System
Leica Dicomar Lens
Intelligent Shooting Guide / Selection Playback
Precise hand-shake compensation: Helps prevent blurry images caused by unsteady hands as you shoot
Superb color reproduction – faithful, natural colors with delicate nuances
A superb optical system that captures even delicate, subtle nuances
Magnicent shots every time – when shooting, when viewing
Panasonic's Advanced O.I.S. suppresses the effects of hand
shake as you shoot. The system uses gyrosensors to detect
hand shake, then shifts a lens and adjusts the optical axis to
compensate. This all happens a remarkable 4,000 times per
second. And because the system is optical, no image quality
is lost. Thanks to Advanced O.I.S., the
images you capture look incredibly clear,
sharp and beautiful on a big TV screen.
The skin tone and vegetables
don't look natural,
they look articial.
Washed-out image due to strong light
*The camera must be aimed at the subject in advance.
3CCD
The skin tone and vegetables have
natural color and look real.
Multi-coated lens: clear image with no color bleeding
1CCD
Most professional broadcasting cameras use
the 3CCD camera system, with its superior
color reproduction. In a 1CCD system, all of
the incoming light information is processed by the same CCD. The more
advanced 3CCD system uses three distinct CCDs for processing, so there
is absolutely no light loss. The 3CCD camera system draws out the full
potential of full-HD image quality.
The HD camcorders boast a Leica Dicomar lens.
Developed specically for full-HD digital camcorders,
this lens system is made using a multi-coating
process that prevents light reection and glare, which
can make colors bleed and images appear washed out. It also prevents
rings of light, or "ghosts."
*Leica is a registered trademark of Leica Microsystem IR
GmbH, and Dicomar is a registered trademark of Leica Camera AG.
This clever function records three seconds of
images even before you actually begin shooting.
The images are held temporarily in the camcorder's internal memory,
before recording onto the SDHC/SD Memory Card or hard disk begins. This
helps ensure that you won't miss the start of a moment you want to record,
such as when an event begins all of a sudden.
*SX5: Effective in card recording mode.
When Shooting
Intelligent Shooting Guide
This convenient function helps you choose the best
shooting settings. It displays a text message in the LCD monitor, telling
you which settings are best for the current conditions.
In Playback
Intelligent Shooting Selection Playback
Poor or inadvertent shots (such as shots of the ground or overly dark
scenes) are skipped, and all normal scenes are played.
Examples of detectable shooting mistakes:
•Dark scenes •Fast panning/tilting •Hand swinging •Low light
•Ground shooting •Poorly focused shots
1CCD
Color Filter
Optical Axis
CCD
3CCD
Optical Axis
Dichroic
Mirrors
CCD
CCD
CCD
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O.I.S. Lens
The lens moves up/down or left/right and bends
the incoming light to correct handshake.
Both the smiling faces and the background are
crisp and razor-sharp. Even on a big screen, the
images are virtually blur-free.
It is so dark, the subject
looks dull and unattractive.
When set to Low Light
mode, the shot is beautiful.
A message is displayed telling
you to use Low Light mode.
Fast Pan/Tilt:
CAMERA PANNING IS TOO FAST
Low Light:
USE LOW LIGHT MODE
Backlighting:
USE INTELLIGENT CONTRAST
Cancel Backlighting:
CANCEL INTELLIGENT CONTRAST
Hand Swing:
USE O.I.S.
Cancel Low Light:
CANCEL LOW LIGHT MODE
Starts backing up in the internal memory
3 seconds prior Time
With
Pre-Rec.
Without
Pre-Rec.
REC Button On!
OFF
ON
Cut Cut
With the SD9 and HS9, setting the time is as easy as selecting a city from
the displayed map. The World Timer
function lets you set the time for two
cities, home and destination. You don't
have to figure out the time difference
at your destination, and it's easy when
you get home.
0.6 sec Quick Start
No more missed shooting opportunities!
In Quick Start mode*, the SD9 and HS9 are ready to record 0.6 second
after the LCD is opened. You’re always ready to capture the moment,
even when the unexpected occurs.
*This mode can be selected from the menu.
Power turns on
automatically
when you open the LCD!
OFF
Open
ON
With
Advanced
O.I.S.
ON
50" Display (Advanced O.I.S. OFF)
Without
NEW
The starting
scene is missing.
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SX5HS9SD9
SX5HS9SD9
HS9SD9
HS9SD9
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World TimerPre-Rec Function
Easy time setting –
Both on the road and at home
Images are recorded
even before you begin shooting
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HS9SD9
SX5HS9SD9
It's difcult to shoot scenes with deep shadows or large differences between light and dark areas. The subject often looks too dark, and faces can
be hard to see. Panasonic solves this problem with Face Detection, a function that automatically adjusts the exposure according to the ambient
brightness, so faces are bright and easy to see. When the camcorder detects a face in the scene, a square frame appears around it in the LCD
monitor and the exposure is adjusted to correct the brightness
level. The skin tone is also smoothed. Face Detection can detect up to ve faces at
once. With Face Detection – offered for the
first time for recording moving pictures
with a video camera – Panasonic makes it
easy to capture beautiful faces and clear
backgrounds even in dim or backlit scenes.
NEW
Face Detection
World's rst face detection function for recording moving pictures with a video camera
Faces are beautiful - Even in backlit or dark places
Faces are bright and sharp.
The backlit faces are hard
to make out.
Digital Cinema Mode
Film-like beauty: Captures more data to deliver richer images
1920 x 1080 progressive 1080/24p
Set the SD9 or HS9 to Digital Cinema mode and shoot
in the 1920 x 1080 progressive 1080/24p format (24
pictures per second). Progressive scanning captures
clear, vibrant
images with intricate detail. You
also get faithful images with an
appealing lm-like quality.
Digital Cinema Color*
This mode automatically switches the
camcorder to the Digital Cinema Color
range, which approaches the digital
cinema color range used in Hollywood
digital movie production. Colors recorded
in this mode look more vivid than those
recorded using the conventional Panasonic
standard. For example, the subtle reds and
shades of gold of owers, and the greens
of leafy trees are remarkably true to life.
Images are rich and luxuriant,
just like at the movies.
HS9
SD9
*Progressive 1080/24p
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Digital cinema color range
HDTV standard
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*When using a TV that is compatible with x.v.Color, images that are recorded in Digital Cinema Color mode will have a wider color range than conventional images. *The color range varies depending on the TV.