Panasonic SDR-H40 40GB Hard Drive Camcorder

I am writing this in a rush, I couldn’t wait. I just got a notification on my mail that my camcorder was delivered today. I looked outside and there was freezing rain but the urge to see the camcorder was so big that I decided to go to mailbox anyway ..man it is cold outside. This is great timing, since Deepwali is tomorrow and we will be able to record the Laxmi Pooja proceedings now for our little bubble-dubble. After all he just missed it by few weeks his/her first deepawali.

We didn’t wanted our little monster getting mad on us asking why the heck we didn’t record his/her first smile or his first crawl or first whatever …just kidding..how can we not capture these moments. We’d been contemplating a camcorder for several months after a deep careful thought and several trips to local Best-Buy we decided to buy the Panasonic SDR-H40 40GB Hard Drive Camcorder. I had no idea that selecting a camcorder is going to be so hard. This particular one doesn’t have all the features I wanted but it gave the biggest bang for the buck. This has 40 GB built-in 40 Gig hard drive, which should be good for about 9 hours of recording (More than enough). Vin’s preference was to get the smallest size possible and it is pretty slick. The optical zoom (42X) is best in the segment. The best feature is optical image stabilization which is such a blessing when we won’t have a tripod handy. I think this will be great for capturing our life moments while the little munchkin is growing up.

I just take a quick video of the Pooja place and played it on the TV and I have to say it looks great. Hopefully, I will be able to post some videos but don’t hold your breath until after the baby birth.