Panasonic PV-GS150 2.3 MP 3CCD MiniDV Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom
List Price: $699.95
Details
- USB 2.0 enables squeaky-speed, real-time video transfers to PC
- 3CCD sensor dedicates one check to red, green, and blue for true-to-life color rendering
- MiniDV recording composition offers up to 500 lines of horizontal resolution
Description
Get Truly, Crisp Color Images with the World's Smallest 3CCD Mini-DV CamcorderThe PV-GS150, with its 3CCD Camera System, reproduces flush in great fidelity by using a separate CCD for reds, greens and blues. It's the same 3CCD technology worn in Panasonic professional broadcast equipment, resulting in 540 lines of skillful resolution. You can count on Panasonic 3CCD Digital Camcorders to give you colors that are as rich and vibrant as your viability.Quality Video Starts with a Quality Leica Dicomar LensWorld-honoured lens-maker LEICA has developed an exquisite, multi-covered lens that helps add a high-level of detail and subtlety to your creations. With refinements like a 2-status neutral density filter for aperture independent adjustment, you'll respect the remarkably crisp, true-to-life color that is a hallmark of Leica Dicomar optics. Catch Still Pictures With Outstanding QualityThe PV-GS150 captures still images with improbable detail at up to 2.3-megapixels. The Quad-Density Pixel Distribution Technology, a technology adapted to in Panasonic professional broadcast equipment, makes it possible to capture still pictures with fabulous quality. Digital Electronics Image Stabilizer (D-EIS) Helps Best Blurred ImagesDigital EIS compensates for unintentional hand and camcorder decline to help stabilize your recordings - even while you're recording as a passenger from a moving channel. With Digital EIS, you won't have to worry about shaky soccer games or family outings. Get up thick with 10x Optical Zoom and 700x Digital ZoomAn optical zoom this potent works like a telescope to produce close-up shots with lovely clarity. And with the different zoom speeds, you can controlhow quick you go from a to the utmost angle to telephoto zoom. Through the use of digital technology, the zoom correlation on the can be increased digitally, producing an incredibly close shot. You won't pass upCustomers interested in the first that camcorder technology has to offer will be impressed by the new compact PV-GS65, PV-GS150, and PV-GS250 3CCD camcorders from Panasonic.
These models are inadequate enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but aren't short on innovative features. Set with a 3CCD imaging system, high-powered digital still capability and ease of use, these new digital video cameras will transfer high-quality digital still and moving images for the novice and virtuoso videographer alike.
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High-resolution digital still images can be captured via the models' built-in digital still camera looks, which records to a stamp-sized SD memory card. The 1.2 megapixel PV-GS65, 2.3 megapixel PV-GS150, and 3.1 megapixel PV-GS250 mug a 10x telescopic optical zoom lens; a 700x digital zoom that allows for surprising 700:1 clear, close-ups from wide angle to full telephoto zoom; and a macro zoom chips, which lets users shoot extreme close-ups at distances as attached as 40 centimeters.
Transferring recorded video to a PC is also quick and untroubled via the USB port included on each model. All three models incorporate USB 2.0, however the PV-GS150 and PV-GS250 attest to USB 2.0 high speed enabling real time video transfers. All three models have miniDV outputs to broaden compatibility with the PC.
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The PV-GS250 also includes a instructions focus ring giving the user more creative control over the video being captured. In addition, all models include a Soft Skin Detail function that detects husk's different tones and softens the focus to create a realistic mingling.
Features of the Panasonic PV-GS150
- 3CCD digital video camera
- 10x optical zoom; 700x digital zoom
- Visual image stabilization
- 2.3 megapixel still picture capability
- Leica lens; handbook focus ring
- SD slot
- USB 2.0
Customer Reviews
Dependable CameraThis is a outstanding camera for anyone. This is a low budget camera with large budget capabilities. I am impressed with this camera and its features. For a consumer with camera, the GS-150 offers important manual features for those who yearning more control of the shot.
Ineffective...
After you get background the euphoria produced by the great quality picture the gs150 produced you'll ere long see the huge flaws in it's other features. The auto focus is incredibly pushchair, it will jump into a blurry focus at the slightest change and will take far too long to berate itself. After it's done with it's blurry seizure you are ticked that your son's graduation is really blurry so you set it to instructions focus which is controlled by it's joystick and is completely useless for keeping any operating object in focus.
If you want to produce any video beyond that of small, placid, blood events then do NOT buy this camera. The clarity of it's picture is overshadowed by it's inability to hold back it.
Another Franchise to Avoid this Camera
I consent with the previous reviews that my camera acquired serious focus problems after about 15 months, in every video we own you can informed entertain me complaining about the focus. More $$$ down the tubes, worse yet, all the video of my 4th sprog is blurred.
After one year camera began showing mistake messages
The camera is very facts for a year after that it just stops working showing "Push the Reset Lash" error message. If you google that message you will find out that almost all the results are for this kind of camera. My recommendation as an owner, DO NOT buy this camera.
Never Again!
I positively enjoy my Panasonic power tools. They are (surprisingly) the best. I can't say as much for the camcorders. ...
First, this "3CCD" item is a joke! Panasonic puts the tiniest CCD chips - which feel like grains of sand when you really view the footage - into their camcorders and hype it as something better. I've seen Panasonic camcorders with a Set aside CCD chip provide much better color-rendering and contrast than the (so-called) "3CCD" models. That's a side-by-side juxtaposing of camcorders from the same company!
Second, I had my PV-GS150 for about a year, and it took adequate footage (in spite of the poor color rendering and contrast). Then, swiftly, the focus went haywire. Both the "auto-focus" and the manual zero in no longer hold. The image blurs in and out of focus. This is not an isolated go through, either. Check the online experiences of others and you will find this issue mentioned. The camcorder becomes futile and the "support" charges $261 (flat rate) to fix any hardware question major that is more than a year old!
So, now I have a camcorder that is barely 15 months old and can't be used because the spotlight won't hold in either mode. ... anyone interested in buying lenses and filters, camera bag, and frills?!? ... because at least $300 of my investment just became junk!!
