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

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Publish date:: Nov 19, 2003
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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.

A six-minute romantic fantasy short film, "Baggage," shot with Panasonic's AG-DVX100 mini-DV 3-CCD camcorder, recently took top honors in the 48 Hour Film Project, an independent filmmaking competition where filmmakers have one weekend to make a short film, 4-8 minutes in length. The camera features CineSwitch technolo

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The camera features infrared nighttime and movie-like recording modes.

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.

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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