January 7, 2009 3:00 PM PST
Little megazoom camcorder from Panasonic
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Panasonic)
Available in champagne, black, blue, and red, the compact SDR-S26 camcorder features no internal memory for storing video (it records only to SD/SDHC cards), but shares the features of the newly announced hard-drive-based SDR-H80 and SDR-H90. This includes its 70x megazoom lens and advanced O.I.S system to help control the resulting--and potentially nauseating--effects of hand-shake when its fully extended.
Other key features include a fast quick-start option for recording in less than a second and the company's iA technology that does face detection and automatic scene recognition.
It rolls out in April 2009 at the cost of $329.95.
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