Panasonic Introduces Enhanced DV Camcorders at InterBEE

Panasonic debuted its AG-DVC30 multi-style mini-DV camera/recorder at the InterBEE exhibition in Japan. The NTSC version of the camera uses three 1/4-inch, 410,000-pixel CCDs to enable picture quality of 480/60i, 4:3 aspect. The PAL version has 470,000-pixel CCDs and features picture quality of 576/50i, 4:3 aspect. The

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Nov 19, 2003

Panasonic debuted its AG-DVC30 multi-style mini-DV camera/recorder at the InterBEE exhibition in Japan. The NTSC version of the camera uses three 1/4-inch, 410,000-pixel CCDs to enable picture quality of 480/60i, 4:3 aspect. The PAL version has 470,000-pixel CCDs and features picture quality of 576/50i, 4:3 aspect. The AG-DVC30 includes a 16x Leica Dicomar lens with Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS), removable handle, IR filming function and an optional XLR audio input. It will be available in Spring 2004.

Panasonic also showed an upgraded version of its AG-DVX100, the AG-DVX100A 24p/30p/60i mini-DV camcorder.

Panasonic has released the AJ-SDC615, a new DVCPRO camcorder. The 11-pound camcorder offers 520,000 pixel, 0.75-inch 3-CCDs and a built-in IEEE 1394 interface for transferring digital data to a laptop NLE. AJ-SDC615 operators can switch between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios. The camcorder also has a 63dB signal-to-noise

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The AJ-SDC615 boasts high-sensitivity 520,000 pixel, 2/3in 3-CCDs and a built-in IEEE 1394 interface

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Equipped with three 410,000-pixel CCDs, the new camcorder has a wide-angle 16x zoom lens with optical image stabilizer.

Panasonic is shipping its new dual-mode camcorder. The 15-pound AJ-SDC905 is designed for NTSC-newsgathering and high-performance video production, offering IEEE -1394 input and output for 50 Mbps NLE. The camcorder features 4:2:2 sampled at native 16:9 wide-screen or 4:3 aspect ratios. Its 12-bit A/D DSP circuits

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Featuring three 2/3in, high-density, 2.2-million pixel CCDs, the HPX3100 acquires full-raster, 1920 x 1080-resolution imaging with 4:2:2 10-bit sampling.

Panasonic has rolled out a less costly P2 camcorder, designed for all types of ENG assignments. The new shoulder-mount, low power AJ-SPC700 is a 2/3-inch 520,000-pixel, IT 3-CCD camera with 60 fields interlace recording in 25Mbps DVCPRO/DV and 50 Mbps 4:2:2 DVCPRO50 format on a P2 card. The camcorder offers three

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The AJ-SPC700 combines a 2/3in 520,000-pixel, IT 3-CCD camera with 25Mb/s DVCPRO/DV and DVCPRO50 format recording on a P2 solid-state memory card

The AF100A, which builds on the legacy of the AF100, weighs 3.5lbs (without lens or battery), includes several high-end features like Dynamic Range Stretch.

The AF100A features 10-bit (enhanced 8-bit) 4:2:2 quality output for better gradation of tonal areas when recording onto external devices, such as a P2 HD recorder.