Digi camcorder: 'HDC-TM30'

An employee of Japan's electronics giant Panasonic poses with the Panasonic 'HDC-TM30'.  (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

The world's lightest high-definition digital camcorder ‘HDC-TM30’, at the company's showroom in Tokyo on June 15, 2009.  (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

The Panasonic 'HDC-TM30' camera weighs just 227g and is equipped with a 1.47 mega-pixel CMOS image sensor and a 2.95 - 47.2mm/F1.8 - 2.8 zoom lens to record high-definition movie or 2.1 mega-pixel still images on the built-in 32GB flash memory and up to 32GB SD memory card on its compact body.  (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)