Panasonic VDR-D100 DVD Camcorder with 30x Optical Zoom

With the Panasonic VDR-D100 DVD camcorder with 30x optical zoom in your hands, you'll have some of the most exciting technologies to be found anywhere in a home-video camcorder. Featuring a powerful 30x optical zoom, an advanced optical image stabilizer, and Panasonic's pure color engine and MPEG2 engine, the VDR-D100 will give you the results and performance that have previously only been possible in professional camcorder systems.A Powerful 30x Optical ZoomWith one of the most--if not the most--powerful zooms offered in any home-use camera, the VDR-D100 will make those distant images you've long been craving to record yours for the asking. While many camcorders can offer 30x of digital zoom or more, the image degradation of digital zoom renders most distant images virtually unrecognizable. Digital zooms basically enlarge the dots at the center of the image, producing grainy images. In fact, the larger the zoom, the grainier the image. An optical zoom, on the other hand, not only offers magnification without the image degradation, it also focuses quickly, so you're ready to shoot right away. (But if you really insist on zooming in on your distant subject, the VDR-D100 also has the ability to achieve up to 1000x in digital zoom mode.) And while cameras with high-powered zooms typically require a big and complicated lens, the VDR-D100 is light and compact enough for you to carry with you easily.Reducing Hand-Shake with Panasonic's Optical Image StabilizerAnyone who has ever recorded home video knows how difficult it is to take perfectly stable shots. Hand-shake is one of the biggest problems with home video. Panasonic has created a unique solution to this problem--an optical image stabilizer system that corrects the problem before the CCD imaging stage, so that it has virtually no effect on image resolution or field of view. With this one-of-a-kind system, you'll get automatic hand-shake correction every time you shoot. Panasonic's Advanced Color Engines and High-Quality OpticsAt the heart of the system is a 1/6-inch