Panasonic releases VDR-M70K video camera with a DVD writer

Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial) again released an interesting product. This usual looking video camera has a rather unusual feature — capability of writing the recorded data onto DVD-RAM/R (80mm).

VDR-M70K was developed by Panasonic together with Hitachi (DZ-MV580), so these models look alike. VDR-M70K is expected in Japanese retail on April 10 for a still unknown price. Our news source believes it to be aroung ¥120000 ($1090).

Camera specs:

• 1/3.8" CCD, 1.02 million pixels; about 460,000 pixels effective at recording, ~ 960,000 pixels effective at shooting still images
• Supports 16:9
• 10x optical lens, F/1.8-2.4 aperture
• Supports 80mm DVD-RAM, DVD-VR, DVD-R media
• 2.5" LCD, 110,000 pixels
• USB 2.0
• Li-Ion, 1360mAh battery
• Up to 2 hours 10 minutes of operation
• 64x146x89 size
• 585 g weight

Source: PC Watch