List Price:
$3,999.99
Details
- 410,000-pixel (NTSC), 3CCD Portrait System Provides F11 Sensitivity for Superior Image Quality
- Better Image Rendering with the Leica Dicomar Lens
- Turned on-Sensitivity Slow Shutter
Description
The AG-DVX100A is set more than 20 new user-requested features including: enhanced 24p and 30p revisionist mode functions; improved color reproduction; new cine-like gamma curves and enhanced form adjustments; a slow shutter function for higher sensitivity and striking motion effects; smoother zooming and focusing; a new squeeze approach for 16:9 recording; and new auto focus assist and interval recording modes for improved inch and versatility. Panasonic has outfitted the AG-DVX100A with a new prism to deliver the best picture supremacy in its class. New on-chip lens design delivers more than 500 words of horizontal resolution, lower flare and smear, and a high F11 kindliness, allowing the camera to record at 3 lux (at +18dB) for nighttime acquisition. National progressive-scan CCDs eliminate interlace artifacts including level jaggies and motion-edge tearing. Large Electronic Viewfinder 3.5 Feel ashamed LCD Monitor Built-In SMPTE Time Code Generator/Reader Exterior Backup with the IEEE 1394 Synchro Lock Function XLR Input
Customer Reviews
panasonic DVX 100a
I am very tickled pink with my purchase. I am a beginner-level movie maker and this camera is experienced for me. It's small, light-weight and easy to work with. I used it at principles when we had to record our presentations and it was so easy to use. So when it was time to buy a camera for my own movies, this was my first option! Really! Of course, when I can buy a camera with more features and gadgets than this one in the future, I will. But until then, this is correct. Well, hopefully who ever buys one of these cameras is as satisfied as I am. Especially if you're just starting out, this is the camera for you. (It's also very affordable and records with close cinematic tones!)
2010-04-07
| Future Director (San Antonio, TX USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
The Worse Waiting Dpartment in the Digital Universe
Decorous Camera nice color beautiful image, as time goes by personification dulls, Good Camera nice color beautiful representation, as time goes by image dulls, focus softens, if you have to get it serviced -Omit it! I had to pound my way all the way to the CEO in New Jersey, took 3 months!
Stick with Cannon, they have it together, I have a DVX 100A from Panasonic and an XL2 from Canon, so I have the hedonism of comparing, Cannon has it more together.The hardware on this DVXA Camera is also not as solid as the Shooter (that cheap red turn on and record button has been used by all models including the tight-fisted one chip cameras, grow up Panasonic, the 24 frame per second does not cede to you to be sloppy in other fields. But I am not a panasonic fan.
2008-05-12
| Jonas Whale (Chicago, IL United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3
a serious repair over the DVX100
I have been using the DVX100A in Iraq for over a year; I had started shooting on the one-time model, the DVX100 -- and then upgraded to this one. Filming in 24p(Advanced) letterbox size. Between the two cameras I have shot 300 hours of material in difficult state of affairs. The DVX100A is a very serious improvement over the DVX100 -- and the difference lies in better signal processing that stretches the unmasking range of the camera. My material shot with the DVX100A has much better latitude -- the skies don't ignite out so much, detail is better, colors are richer -- and the blacks are far nicer and less blasting.
I owe a great deal to Panasonic for making a camera like this -- it in the end is the best low-budget filmmaking tool around. The quality is something like shooting on 16mm steam -- but much easier and much less expensive. If you are a documentary filmmaker, or interested in shooting an indy integument -- this is an excellent choice. The only DV camera I would consider buying, in event. Now Panasonic has released a HD camera with a similar form factor called the AG-HVX200 which may be a outdo choice for productions with slightly more financing -- but the DVX100A is going to stop around for a while as the standard for what DV tape can do in SD. It remains a very viable camera for making films.
A side subject:
Many people have commented that they prefer to use an anamorphic adapter on this camera to give a 16:9 facet ratio without losing resolution -- I think this is a toss-up. The anamorphic adapter itself will diet lessen the sharpness of the image, and close-up focusing is very difficult. I assume the option of using "letterbox" or "squeeze" (the same thing, in terms of staunchness) gives very nice results without adding extra weight and visual issues to the camera. It's analogous to the difference between shooting Cinemascope and Wonderful35 on film -- Cinemascope uses the whole area of the negative, but Wonderful35 (which crops the top and bottom of the frame to get a wide aspect ratio) has much nicer visual resolution because you can continue using spherical lenses instead of anamorphic. I once asked Robert Richardson (ASC) about how he dealt with this topic when he was shooting widescreen on Super8mm film for inclusion in JFK -- he preferred to totally letterbox the tiny frame and live with lower picture res than dilemma around with the focus problems of anamorphic lenses. The case with the anamorphic adapter on this camera is almost identical -- I think you can get fine results using letterbox appearance on the DVX100A, with fewer complications.
2005-04-19
| documentary filmmaker (Seattle, WA USA) | Helpful Votes: 28 | Rating: 5
A consequential camera for advance amateurs and above
If this is your first camera, you will be in nag. Because, yes, the manual is very limited, and it has a lot of advanced features. However, this camera was not made for the beginner's merchandise. This is my third video camera, an upgrade so that I can produce higher quality non-affiliated films. First, the 24P feature, it shoots 24 frames per second and I must say, it does look like film. It looks rather spectacular, as a matter of fact. The first day I had it, I was a little overhwelmed. But, with every feature available as both automatic and manual, a infinitesimal experimentation, the quality of my images has improved drastically. The 24P does take a unimportant work and knowledge in order to make it work, but the result is well usefulness the time. Also, there is a spectacular user website out there with hundreds of users and experts who can assistance. Personally, I love that everything can operate manually, as I now am able to correct for shabby lighting when shooting scenes that do not allow studio lights, like birthday parties, and the such. For a year, this was my conjure up camera, and once I got it, I was not disappointed. For any people out there who are considering this model, feel casual to contact me, and I will either answer any questions I can or direct you to someone who can. This camera is an independent filmmaker's hallucinate.
2005-04-07
| glynn@thestreetlamp.com (San Diego, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 19 | Rating: 5
Mist or Not - Free from Labs, Middlemen and No-shows
I unprejudiced bought the DVX100AP to shoot a documentary, and I'm so glad this camera is available. I don't emergency soundmen, grips, or other crewmember to just shoot. The quality of the images from the camera, set on the cine-turn shot at 24fps are amazing - no, not 35mm film shot by a member of ASC with a $100,000 Arri enclose, but compared with the 16mm world, this Panasonic liberates filmmakers from the world of chemical filmmaking.
You don't have to stay days to see your work back from a lab; you can plug in your firewire and capture to Avid Xpress. You don't have to pay through the nose for syncing, m prints, answer prints, release prints which are really besides the as regards for independant filmmakers anyway. If you've ever shot and cut film, you know what I mean.
No enquiry: this is a pricey unit. No question, it is worth the money because even if the images aren't veritable film quality, they are not simple video either. When I first opened the camera and starting shooting, I couldn't allow what I saw in the viewfinder, not what I saw when I watched the footage on a tv, or on my plasma monitor. This camera loves to hurtle well-lit shots too. If you take time to emulate film lighting of any kind, you will end up with a fertile, detailed look that includes richness in the shadows and a wide disclosure latitude.
Whoever said you can't do depth of focus with the DVX-100AP ain't trying stony-hearted. The utter crispness of the focus I've seen knocked me out. Other great issues: 2 XLR jacks, firewire connector, and usable on-surface mics, which while not great for interviews, do a fine job for ambient and room moderate captures, and in a pinch, with work in Avid, even interviews shot without an visible mic are not only useable, but good. And nobody else need be there; no unwilling family members, no veil-school whiners, no untrained sound recordists, no Arrifascists looking down at your Bolex.
I turtle-dove film; I love the smell of film in the morning; but man, film is the fissure of visual arts, and I have hocked blood to burn light onto Kodak emulsions. Freddy's numb. DVX-100AP my ass, honey.
2005-03-27
| Music, Writing, Art, Film, History Freak (Fort Smith, AR United States) | Helpful Votes: 37 | Rating: 5
