Panasonic VDR-D100

With the Panasonic VDR-D100 DVD camcorder with 30x optical zoom in your hands, you'll have some of the most exciting technologies to be found anywhere in a home-video camcorder. Featuring a powerful 30x optical zoom, an advanced optical image stabilizer, and Panasonic's pure color engine and MPEG2 engine, the VDR-D100 will give you the results and performance that have previously only been possible in professional camcorder systems.A Powerful 30x Optical ZoomWith one of the most--if not the most--powerful zooms offered in any home-use camera, the VDR-D100 will make those distant images you've long been craving to record yours for the asking. While many camcorders can offer 30x of digital zoom or more, the image degradation of digital zoom renders most distant images virtually unrecognizable. Digital zooms basically enlarge the dots at the center of the image, producing grainy images. In fact, the larger the zoom, the grainier the image. Minimize