It supports dark place shooting and underwater shooting with dustproof, waterproof, shock-resistant, inexpensive high-definition mobile camera "HM-TA 20"

As Panasonic's WEB limited sale model, an inexpensive high-vision mobile camera "HM-TA 20We announced.

"HM - TA 20" is dustproof, waterproof and shock resistant, it supports dark place photography and underwater photography, it can also record linear PCM format, editing recorded videos on the main body, and high - quality It also supports use as a WEB camera.

Details are as below.
According to Panasonic's press release, the company announced on June 24 that Panasonic's direct sales site "PanaSense PanaSense", It seems to release a high-definition mobile camera" HM - TA 20 "of the WEB limited sale model. The price is 19,800 yen.

"HM - TA 20" corresponds to JIS / IEC protection grade (IPX 8) water depth 3 m, waterproofing capable of taking up to 60 minutes, dustproofing equivalent to JIS / IEC protection rating (IP 5 X), and height of 1.5 m MIL-STD 810 F Performs a Single Drop Test on Plywood From the MIL-STD 810 F Method 516.5-Shock, it achieves high durability combined with impact resistance.

In addition to being able to shoot at twice the usual brightness, you can enjoy "Night View mode" where you can enjoy shooting in dark scenes, and you can edit movies recorded for uploading to YouTube etc. on the main unit, Recording of moving pictures, still pictures and sounds is possible according to the application by installing "photography mode" in addition to movie shooting mode and "sound recording mode" capable of recording linear PCM format.

This is the blue model of "HM - TA 20" body. It adopts a 5-megapixel camera module, the optical zoom is 1 time, the digital zoom corresponds to 4 times. It has a 3.0-inch LCD monitor, SDHC memory card slot, mini HDMI terminal, USB terminal etc. that can be operated with touch.


Orange model. Both are compatible with recording up to 1080p, the video compression format is MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 and the audio compression format is AAC. Recording with stereo sound is possible.


Moreover, by installing the "Random iA" function that can be taken beautifully according to the scene and automatic tracking white balance, you can enjoy photographing easily, and by connecting to a PC, it also corresponds to use as a WEB camera for Skype It is.

It is regrettable that there is no zoom, but considering that it is a fulfilling function up to here with a price cut off 20,000 yen, it may not be bad to try to use it as a camera specialized for movie shooting .