Panasonic AG-HMC40PJ HDVideoPro: Small Camera Big Picture (HMC40)
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- Panasonic AG-HMC40PJ | HDVideoPro: Small Camera Big Picture (HMC40) - Page 1
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switch and a button, the HMC40 has only one button. Pressing it changes through the various options of automatic, preset or manual white balance, and holding in the button starts the manual whitebalance function. It takes up half the space, but works. There are three user buttons and 14 choices of - Panasonic AG-HMC40PJ | HDVideoPro: Small Camera Big Picture (HMC40) - Page 3
4 2 I HDVideoPro The video performance is surprisingly good. The HMC40's sharpness is on par with cameras costing much more; in good light, it can deliver a full HD experience with sharpness comparable to that of a Sony EX1 or Panasonic HPX300. The menu settings let you control saturation and
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The Panasonic
AG-HMC40
is a compact
camcorder
that packs a
professional punch
BY BARRY GREEN
Small Camera
BIG PICTURE
BIG PICTURE
The HMC40 is Panasonic’s
latest AVCCAM camcorder, an
entry-level professional unit that
records in the AVCHD format to
regular SDHC memory cards. At a
suggested retail price of $2,295
($1,995 estimated street price),
it’s even less expensive than the
standard-def Panasonic DVX100B,
but it’s jam-packed with features.
These include a full HD 3MOS
imaging block, and most of the
best features of its bigger broth-
ers—a waveform monitor, zebras,
a spot meter, two scene files,
1080/24p and 720/60p, a repeat-
able focus ring, uncompressed
HDMI output, optical image stabi-
lization, dynamic-range stretching
and more. It even adds new fea-
tures to the AVCCAM lineup such
as time-lapse, still photo capture
and a touch-screen display.
The AG-HMC40 looks a lot
like a “mini-me” version of the
AG-HMC150; it’s much smaller
(45%)
and
lighter
(just
2.16
pounds).
That
tiny
size
does
mean less room for manual but-
tons, but Panasonic managed to
combine features to still provide
full manual control. For example,
40
±
HD
VideoPro