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Panasonic NV-GS400 (MiniDV)
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The market is full of
low-priced, single-Charge-coupled device cameras, but if you are looking
for genuinely good quality then you will have to pay off a payment.
Panasonic's three-Charge-coupled device NV-GS400 does not lower the
reputation of its class.
With a series of the year
2005 models that has overcome lots of SimplyDV's strong and misanthropic
army of examiners, Panasonic has maybe been more logical than most with
an arrays of digital camcorders that seem to fulfill the anticipations
of a good few operators. The company's latest productions also appear to
provide those features that public value most - a nice physical
structure you can have your hands around, outstanding direct
functionality and large sized buttons properly where they had better be.
So, what about the three chip NV-GS400? Does it happen as expected in
operating all of our buttons? |
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First impressions
With an aluminum coating
and physical structure styling that is evocative of one of Sony's
preferred 3 Charge-coupled device presentations of recent years (the
DCR-TRV950) the NV-GS400 surely appears and senses like it is ready for
employment. Its Leica Docomar lens features a large sized, knurled focus
ring with a soft, convinced working. Large numbers of buttons include
controls for Focus, Shutter/Iris, White Balance nearly the forepart, in
addition a nicely-placed on-off switch for all Auto/Manual and AE lock
exactly in front of the Liquid crystal display screen. The camera's
primary Mode and Power toggles are at the backside, accompanied with
Photo Shoot and Zoom rocker control. The 3.5 inch Color Liquid crystal
display screen is a real boon, and when opened exposes pack of menu and
functional commands. Two plastic doors at the backside (RHS) hold in the
maximum range of AV and DV connecters, in addition a Mini Universal
Serial Bus socket. The NV-GS400 balances attractively when handheld, in
plus to which it sits greatly on a stand. A Fresh Accessory Shoe
provides link of optional Zoom Mike
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Features
The
NV-GS400 bears more characteristics, but add it to state that its more
famous ones are the complete variety of AV inputs and outputs, FireWire
in/out, external Mike input and earphone output places, Zebra pattern
generator (onscreen display showing the top picture exposure) and color
test bars. It also includes manual shutter (a mechanical device on a
camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic
exposure) speed control (ranging from 1/5th second to 1/8000th second
(in Tape mode) and 1/2nd second to 1/2000th of second in Card mode. good
auto and manual command exists on Focus, Iris, White Balance & Mike
input recording level (with Mike sensitivity and Bass enhancement
commands).
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The GS400 offers a
regulator to adjust the image sensitivity and OIS (that is Optical Image
Stabilization function). An Optical Zoom range of 12:1 (3.3mm to 39.6mm)
is the feature given with Digital Zoom at 24:1 and a problematic 600:1
ratio. A range of Playback functions are offered in Tape and SD Card
modes. These options include Playback Zoom, Playback Volume adjust,
Playback Digital Effects. These Playback Digital Effects includes Wipes,
Mix, Picture-in-Picture, Multi-Screen, Strobe, Solarization, Negative,
and many others. It has also given the power to pick the options of the
pre-recorded Dv tape and copying to the optional SD card in compressed
forms from there these files can be emailed or transferred by Universal
Serial Bus.
A two-way Fire Wire link
is given for DV shifting to and from a Windows or Apple computer with
the complete range of AV outputs to Television or external recorder and
inputs back to tape. Two-way S-Video link is also given. Universal
Serial Bus 2.0 is supplied for shifting of digital stills and small
sized compressed video files from and back to the SD card. This model
offers two wide screen styles of functioning; first one is a
"cinema-effect" style that is a top-and-bottom trimming of a 4:3
picture. The second one is "Pro-Cinema" mode its a more satisfactory
anamorphic squeeze of the broad picture into the 4:3 for unsqueezing in
the computer capture or replay on wide screen Television.
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