Panasonic's AG-AF100 Micro Four Thirds Professional HD Camcorder represents an enormous leap forward in affordable, cinema-quality video imaging. Providing all the professional features that videographers expect in an interchangeable-lens camcorder--manual video and audio control, variable frame rates, HD-SDI and HDMI output, XLR inputs, timecode--the AG-AF100 plays its trump card with a large, 4/3-type image sensor. At 13 times the size of comparably priced 1/3" sensors (and almost 4 times larger than the 2/3" chips found in cameras costing more than twice as much), the AG-AF100's sensor brings the richness of DSLR video into a professional form factor. 4/3" MOS Image Sensor, Product highlights include:

• Micro 4/3" Lens Mount

• Records HD 1080 at 60i/50i/30p/25p/24p

• Built-in Neutral Density Filters

• XLR Inputs (Line/Mic and Phantom Power)

• Up to 1080/60fps in VFR Mode

• PS Recording Mode for up to 25Mbps

• Uncompressed 4:2:2 8-bit via HD-SDI

• Six Built-in Customizable Scene Files

• Timecode and Timecode Synchronizing