Description

The S7 is a camcorder You’ll be able to take just about anywhere, as you would a small digital still camera. The S7 fits nicely in the palm of the hand. This outstanding mobility makes the S7 an ideal choice for business use. Just slip it in a suit pocket or handbag and carry it anywhere.

The power turns on or off as soon as the LCD is opened or closed, and Quick Start recording begins in only 0.6 seconds. This combines with the camera’s handy compact size to help catch those sudden and immediate shooting opportunities.

If your TV has an SD card slot and can play MPEG-2 files, just slip your card into the slot and get ready to watch beautiful motion or still images on a large screen.

Panasonic SDR-S7 Highlights

Small enough to fit in a pocket or bag

Compact Size and Cool Styling The SDR-S7 is small enough to slip in a pocket or bag. Cool enough to take in all places you go. This is one stylish camcorder you’ll be able to never want to be without.

Easy Shooting at High of Low Angles You’ll be able to freely adjust the angle of the LCD monitor for comfortable viewing no matter how you’re holding the camera. The SUB REC button on the side makes it easy to shoot when you’re holding the camera low. The buttons are laid out simply and logically for easy one-hand operation.

High Picture Quality with a 2.7-inch Viewing Screen This model offers the High-Picture-Quality Wide Mode, which produces images that make for beautiful, dramatic viewing on a wide-screen TV. The image is processed on 16:9 area of the CCD. Because the image decoded has the same proportions as your wide-screen TV, there is virtually no picture quality degradation. You get beautiful images and all the excitement and dynamism on either a wide 16:9 screen TV or a conventional 4:3 TV. This model also features a wide 2.7-inch LCD, making it easier to frame shots when you’re shooting in 16:9 mode. You’ll be able to enjoy shooting wide, and viewing wide.

Pure Color Engine The Pure Color Engine converts the CCD output signal from a complementary color signal into an RGB signal at an early stage and extracts the low-frequency luminance component from the RGB signal. This innovative engine also achieves truly superb color reproduction for high-zoomed pictures.

High-quality MPEG 2 Engine Panasonic’s MPEG2 engine is a wide-range, high-precision search engine that produces smooth, beautiful motion pictures. Because it precisely records the differences in each frame, it can render fast, complex motions – like those of athletes in the thick of the action – with exceptional precision. The MPEG2 engine also uses Variable Bit Rate technology that Panasonic developed for the high-end DIGA DVD recorder. Giving LP recordings nearly twice the resolution captured with previous Panasonic camcorders, this lets the camcorder record clear, smoothly flowing pictures.

10X Optical Zoom Distant subjects can be enlarged so they seem like right up close. This allows dynamic shots of both motion and still pictures.

Shooting Functions

Pre-Record Function (Images are Recorded Before you Begin Shooting) This clever new function records three seconds of images even before you in fact begin shooting. The images are held temporarily in the camcorder’s internal memory, before recording onto the SDHC/SD Memory Card begins. This helps ensure that you won’t miss the start of a moment you wish to have to record, such as when an event begins swiftly. For example, if you’re waiting to snap a shot of a jumping dolphin, You’ll be able to press the REC button after you’ve made sure that the dolphin has cleared the surface of the water. The camcorder will record the entire scene, from the instant of the dolphin’s jump until it disappears again into the sea.

Power LCD Simply press the Power LCD button and the LCD becomes brighter, making it easier to see outdoors or in other bright locations. Also, a new scanning technology allows the LCD to show diagonal lines more sharply.

Select the Recording Mode to Match your Needs This unit records in VBR. VBR is an abbreviation for Variable Bit Rate. VBR recording automatically varies the bit rate (amount of data in a fixed time) depending on the subject being recorded. This means if a subject with sharp movements is recorded, the recording time is reduced.

One Touch Navigation and Easy Operation The cursor makes the camera much easier to use. You’ll be able to handle a number of operations quickly and easily.

• Easy to use Design You’ll be able to do most operations with a single finger.
• Direct Mode Dial Just rotate the dial with your fingertip to make a choice the icon that corresponds to the mode you wish to have.

• Simple Cursor Operation Press the center of the cursor to display icons on the screen.

Quick Search and Access with Thumbnail View Unlike videotape, you don’t need to rewind or fast-forward to search for specific scenes. The camcorder LCD screen displays a list of the recorded scenes for quick and easy searching.

Easy On/Off reduces the time required for operating the camera. When you open the LCD, the power turns on. Shut it and the power turns off.

Quick Start mode helps shoot videos on the spur of the moment. This mode lets you shoot those not-to-be-missed scenes by turning on the power just 0.6 seconds from the time the LCD is opened.

Color Night View gives you smoothly flowing pictures even in dark places, where it’s normally difficult to capture good shots.

World Timer Handy for travelers, this function makes it easy to set the camcorder time when you cross time zones and again when you return home. Simply select your destination from the displayed map, and the camcorder is automatically set for that time zone. The time for two different places can be set — such as home and destination — and You’ll be able to switch between the times by simply pressing a button.

Editing and Networking

Storing on a DIGA If you have an MPEG2-compatible DIGA DVD recorder with an internal hard disk and SDHC/SD memory card slot, saving your images on the hard disk is as easy as inserting an SDHC/SD memory card into the slot. This saves space you’d otherwise need for storing the recording media, and makes playback easier. And once the data is on the hard disk, it’s easy to copy it to a DVD disc.

Easy DVD Copying Connect the S7 directly to a DVD burner via a USB cable. You’ll be able to then copy recordings from the SDHC/SD Memory Card to a DVD disc with easy operation. The disc you make can be played on DVD players, so playback is easy too.

Copy from your memory card to DVD

Includes USB 2.0 and Editing Software
USB 2.0 compatibility lets you upload a motion picture data to a PC at high speed over a single USB cable.

You never have to finalize an SDHC or SD Memory Card, so You’ll be able to transfer data to a PC right after you shoot. Just slip the card into the slot on the PC, and you’re ready to upload and edit. The camera comes with MotionSD STUDIO software that permits you to add music and words right through editing or copy your recordings onto a DVD disc.

Optional Accessories and Products

• Panasonic DIGA DMR-EZ475VK – DVD recorder/ VCR combo – black
• Panasonic 16GB Memory Card
• Panasonic VW-BN1 DVD Burner

Capture video to flash memory
10x optical zoom
2.7-inch LCD screen
Ultra lightweight, compact design
Compatible with SD/SDHC memory cards