Canon’s new duo wasn’t the first and neither the last announcement at NAB Show 2008. Panasonic had also launched its new camcorder : the AG-HMC150, which is the newest member of the AVCCAM family and can record clips at 1,280 x 720 or 1,440 x 1,080, unsing the industry standard MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 compression profile. It features 3-inch 3CCD imagers, 13x Leica Dicomar zoom lens, optical image stabilization, a digital signal processor and also the ability to store footage on SD / SDHC flash cards.
The price for such a camcorder is somewhere around $4,500, but it certainly worth it.