Introduction: Panasonic HDC-HS9, a full HD home-movie camcorder with 60GB drive is wooing the users with its affordable price and exciting features. Often claimed to be an identical counterpart of HDC-SD9,the HDC-HS9 is a hybrid camcorder that is studded with unique features and advanced technologies that truly justifies the price tag it carries and is meant for personal use at home.

Features: The best thing about this camcorder is that, even beginners can aim this device at the desired target and shoot with ease without having to worry about the controls and their settings. They can seek guidance from the Intelligent Shooting Guide that is incorporated in this device with the aim of helping out the first-time shooters. Being a hybrid camcorder, the footage can be recorded either to the hard drive or to the SD/SDHC memory cards (not included in the camcorder kit).

Pros:

• You can shoot a video in 1080p HD and that too you can record up to 23 hours of video with this camcorder even in HE mode.
• Even after housing 60GB hard drive this device is incredibly light and comfortable to carry.
• Bid farewell to hazing, fringing and ghost-like images with the superior quality Leica Dicomar Lens.
• The 3CCD sensors deliver videos with apt colors sans washed-out look and there is even an option to manually adjust the focus on your own.

Cons:

• Inconvenient positioning of the joystick inside the LCD causes trouble while making adjustments to focus settings etc.
• When shooting in low-light environment it gets noisy.
• There is no headphone jack or an external audio output in this camcorder. In normal circumstances, you can make do with the internal microphone.

Final Verdict: If you are ready to ignore the awkward placement of joystick, HDMI and USB ports then, nothing should stop you from buying this high definition camcorder. You can be assured of wise –spending when you are zeroing in on this camcorder.