Brand: Panasonic
Category: Camcorder
Document Type: Manual
Language: EN
Available Languages: EN , ES
Manual for SDR-H79P
Uploaded: Aug. 10, 2025, 12:41 a.m.
Warranty Information
Panasonic provides a 12-month limited warranty on this product for parts and labor.
Quick Guide:
Charging the battery: Connect AC cable to AC adaptor and outlet. Insert battery into AC adaptor.
How to turn on the power: Press lock release button A, set mode dial. Align status indicator B. To turn off, set dial to OFF.
Inserting the battery: Push battery into holder until it clicks.
Inserting an SD card: Open LCD monitor. Open SD card slot cover, insert SD card. Close cover.
Recording motion pictures: Rotate mode dial to select . Press MENU, select [MEDIA SELECT] to HDD or SD CARD. Press record start/stop button.
Recording still pictures: Rotate mode dial to select . Press MENU, select [MEDIA_SELECT] to HDD or SD CARD. Press record start/stop button.
Playback: Rotate mode dial to select or . Press MENU, select [MEDIA SELECT] to HDD or SD CARD. Select scene/file, press joystick. Select playback operation with joystick.
Troubleshooting and error codes
| Index | Page |
|---|---|
| AC adaptor | 16, 19, 108 |
| Aperture | 53 |
| Aspect ratio | 48 |
| Audio rec | 35 |
| Auto focus | 48 |
| Auto slow shutter | 48 |
| Automatic white balance | 52, 109 |
| Backlight compensation | 44 |
| Battery | 16, 18, 107 |
| Battery capacity indication | 19 |
| Beep sound | 27 |
| Charging time | 18 |
| Copy | 69 |
| Date and time display | 29 |
| Delete | 59 |
| Demo mode | 28 |
| Digital zoom | 39 |
| Display | 27 |
| DPOF setting | 68 |
| Dubbing | 81 |
| DVD burner | 74 |
| Economy | 27 |
| Face detection | 45 |
| Fade | 44 |
| Format | 71 |
| Frame-by-frame playback | 55 |
| Gain | 53 |
| Guideline | 48 |
| HDD | 23 |
| Management | 71 |
| Help mode | 45 |
| Initial set | 28 |
| Intelligent auto (iA) mode | 32 |
| Iris | 53 |
| Language | 27 |
| LCD monitor | 13, 31, 108 |
| Locking motion pictures | 61 |
| Locking still pictures | 67 |
| MagicPix function | 45 |
| Manual focus | 50, 51 |
| Menu | 26 |
| Motion picture playback | 54 |
| Motion picture recording | 34 |
| Number of recordable pictures | 114 |
| Operation icons | 42 |
| Optical image stabilizer | 41 |
| PictBridge | 82 |
| Playing back motion pictures by date | 56 |
| Playlist | 64 |
| Power LCD | 31 |
| PRE-REC | 45 |
| Quick start | 40 |
| Recording mode | 36 |
| Recording time elapsed | 34 |
| Recovery | 99 |
| Remaining number of still pictures | 37 |
| Remaining time | 34 |
| Resume playback | 55 |
| Scene mode | 51 |
| SD card | 20, 24 |
| Self-recording | 40 |
| Self-timer recording | 46 |
| Shutter effect | 38 |
| Shutter speed | 53 |
| Skip playback | 54 |
| Slide show | 58 |
| Slow-motion playback | 55 |
| Soft skin mode | 45 |
| Still picture compatibility | 58 |
| Still picture playback | 57 |
| Still picture recording | 37 |
| TV aspect | 73 |
| Volume adjustment | 55 |
| Web mode | 35 |
| White balance | 52, 109 |
| Wind noise reduction function | 48 |
| World time setting | 30 |
| Zoom | 39 |
| Zoom microphone | 40 |