It’s a bad habbit from Panasonic, most of its rugged digital cameras are designed in fat body, like this new camcorder, Panasonic HX-WA10. the gadget is waterproof down to as deep as 3 meter.
No matter you choose picture or video shooting (the button video and photo are placed separately) mode, the result is guaranteed by a 1/2.3″ BSI CMOS Sensor and a new Panasonic’s High-Quality Image Engine. Thus, the camcorder has 5x optical zoom and 12x advanced zoom to give you a clear, pure Full HD video recording and 16MP picture still recording even for far way objects.
In addition, the HX-WA10 camcorder features a 2.6-inch 230,400 dot TFT LCD monitor, EIS, Panasonic’s iA mode, Face Detection, stereo microphone and support SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card. Thanks to mini HDMI port, you can play your record to your big screen HDMI TV.
Dressed in 92(W)x123.7(H)x41.2(D)mm dimension, Panasonic Hx-WA10 camcorder will come to US market in June 2011 in three available colors: orange, blue and black. Based on Amazon UK, the gadget will have price around $495. Is it too expensive? [Dandy Gadget Source]