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Hitachi DZ-GX3300A Camcorder Review
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The Hitachi DZ-GX3300A is
Hitachis best camcorder presented in this year. The functioning was
dissatisfactory and handling was very great. Hitachi took the pattern
from last years DVD camcorders presented by Panasonic, which were
intelligently abandoned by Panasonic so as to standardize the appearance
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Video Performance
The Hitachi DZ-GX3300
(USD498) employs a 1/3inch Charge-coupled device with 3.31 gross mega
pixel (2.18 effectual mega pixel in 4:3 ratios, 1.64 effectual mega
pixel in 16:9). At 3000 lux, the GX3300 provided a picture having much
strong colors. Great intensity is evident, even greater than that in
pictures from the Panasonic VDR-D300 and Sony DVD405. However the
Panasonic and Sony came out fairly even in their tones, the Hitachi is
much neon, much similar to Sony DVD403.
Low Light Performance
At 60
lux, the Hitachi DZ-GX3300 missed very much of color data, and on the
whole brightness level was amazingly low amazing for the reason that
the camcorder employs a 1/3inch Charge-coupled device, big in size
enough to gather a comparatively big amount of light. However the
picture speaks for itself. May be it is some lack of the auto gain work,
however the 60 lux functioning and result is not very fine. Noise was
almost missing at 3000 lux. The colors, which existed over saturated,
are at this time very dull, excluding the colors of yellows and light
greens, which remain strong. The blacks missed almost all of their
information, and were near to fall.
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Picture & Manual
Control
The
default style determined for the Hitachi DZ-GX3300 is Auto. In this mode
exposure, focus, and white balance are automatically operated. In this
style, EIS is also employed. No Auto or Easy button is available,
allowing a rapid and fault-proof method of switching between Auto and
Manual adjustments. That is a burden because it wants operator to be
persevering about supervising the on-screen presentation where manual
option icons are displayed. One might simply be unsuccessful to see the
Manual Focus icon showing that Manual Focus is employed, and giving a
poor picture.
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Ease of Use
The GX3300 is not
comfortable camcorder to operate. We can ensure you of that. This
trouble rises from the terrible handling awkwardly positioned buttons
with the left side of the main body, especially those within the Liquid
crystal display cavity.
Apart from handling
feature, the camcorder is just not a shrewd gadget. Its menu system is
prolonged, having many secondary menus that take an extraordinarily long
period of time to start. The mode dial contains four functions,
including a camera icon, a video icon, OFF, and CARD.
All
other camcorder we examined this to possess better comfort of operation,
with Sony ahead. This field has traditionally been Sonys strong point.
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