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Panasonic HDC-HS300 Reviews

Camcorder - High Definition - widescreen - 3.05 Mpix - optical zoom: 12 x - HDD : 120 GB - flash card - black More product details

$1117.95

High-quality video ; solid performance ; electronic viewfinder ; full manual feature set (cnet.com)

Excellent picture quality even in low light; built-in storage capacity; good range of manual... (macworld.com)

alaTest Review Summary for Panasonic HDC-HS300

We have collected and analyzed 14 expert reviews and 29 user reviews from international sources. Experts rate this product 75/100 and users rate it 88/100. The average review date is June 5, 2009. We have compared these reviews to 105250 reviews from other Camcorders. The alaScore™ for this product is 97/100 = Excellent. Last update: November 19, 2009.

alaSCORE 97

970100

43 reviews

November, 2009

75 / 100

14 Experts

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88 / 100

29 Users

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Expert Reviews (14)

US

Panasonic HDC-HS300

By (cnet.com)

High-quality video ; solid performance ; electronic viewfinder ; full manual feature set

Touch screen not responsive enough

A very good prosumer HD camcorder, the Panasonic HDC-HS300 still isn't as good a deal as the similarly featured but flash-based TM300 and has the same annoying touch-screen interface.

Photos: Panasonic HDC-HS300 Panasonic's trio of top-of-the-prosumer-line HD...

Rating

79100

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cnet.com
US

Review: Panasonic HDC-HS300 HD camcorder

By Rob Mead (macworld.com)

Panasonic's HDC-HS300 is capable of extraordinary video quality and offer a good range of manual options, with manual lens ring controls that are as easy to use as they are capable.

Excellent picture quality even in low light; built-in storage capacity; good range of manual controls

Interface can be confusing; build quality not as good as some rivals; wind noise

The HDC-HS300 also offers a maximum AVCHD video recording resolution of 1920-by-1080 at 17Mbps, which looks a lot lower than the 24Mbps that Canon uses is similarly-priced camcorders. The HDC-HS300 includes a lens ring for focusing, and other manual ...

Rating

80100

macworld.com
US

Camcorder Review: Panasonic HDC-HS300 AVCHD Camcorder

By Tom Skowronski (videomaker.com)

Just like last year's HS100, this HS300 is a very nice-looking, sleek camera. It fits right in the center of the palm and is very easy to shoot with. Weighing in at 1.14 pounds, the HS300 feels light enough to operate as a handheld, while still ...

Manual focus ring Intelligent auto High-resolution stills

Reliance of touchscreen interface

Consumer camera at its best. Offers both manual customization and auto presets to conquer any shooting scenario.

No rating

videomaker.com

User Reviews (29)

US

Panasonic HDC-HS300 with three CMOS

By entah (ciao.com)

...large-sized products, high-end them. Strangely, Panasonic is still enduring the three-sensor system to achieve the desired quality. One product that still stand with the three sensors is the HDC-HS300. Panasonic HDC-HS300 uses three CMOS sensor size 1...

many features on it

old style design

US

Panasonic HDC-HS300

By Optimize (ciao.com)

...here to talk about the Panasonic HDC-HS300. first off i wanna say that the reason i needed this camera is because im a skater and im always wanting to get some new footage. Ive been threw about 6 cameras already lol. The reason for that is simply becau...

picture, responsive, very usefull, nice looking

pretty expensive

US

Panasonic HDC-HS300 DV Evaluation

By ririqing (ciao.com)

HS300 Panasonic camera with built-120G hard disk, and is equipped with a SDHC memory card slot. At the parameters are on the mainstream of today's high-definition DV. In this evaluation, I have the screen on the Panasonic HS300, are satisfied with the col...

Good quality housing at reasonable prices, easy shooting function button, green hand is very easy

Only a narrow part of the lens, and a number of body fat, focus tracking feature song is not perfe

Manufacturer's Description

The HDC-HS300K is a 120GB hard disk drive/SD card hybrid Full-HD camcorder with 3 MOS system, Intelligent Auto, advanced optical image stabilization, and manual ring. HD images contain 6 times as much information as standard images. HDTV has 1,080 horizontal scan lines, SDTV has 480. That translates into much higher resolution and much finer detail. With HD images on an HDTV, pictures are so clear and sharp that you can see textures. The shift in the industry from SDTV to HDTV is well...

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