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Panasonic NV-GS500 (DV)
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The remarkable best of the
series 3 Charge-coupled device (CCD) wide screen DV camcorder presented
by Panasonic satisfies the demands of the home video fan. Is it true?
Let's check it out.
Panasonic’s remarkable NV-GS500 3 Charge-coupled device camcorder
attains a top position of the company’s 2006 DV lineup, and offers a
variety of characteristics that are specially made to pull not only
novices but also professionals searching higher functionalities. It
might be that likely consumers may be looking broader manual control and
the power of recording edited DV episodes back to videotape in the
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First impressions
The NV-GS500 is giant,
stocky and very comfortable to operate. Weight distribution is well and
the whole thing feels as if it is designed for business concern. Visible
commands and switches are at a lower limit, along with the main
functional controls being taken care of practicing the power dial and
joystick at the backside of the camcorder’s physical structure. The
entire range of functions relating tape and stills are given on a single
dial at the backside of the camera body in the position of the
operator’s thumb. This feature is now commonly found in all Panasonic DV
camcorder models and is used to move in the menus with options selected
with the help of joystick. The Menu button has the main Power toggle
switch adjacent to it, Photo button and Zoom rocker control at the upper
back of the physical structure of the camcorder. An 0.33inch color
viewfinder moves rearwards and moves up to according to the operator’s
choices, and when opened the 2.7 inch color Liquid crystal display
screen brings out sockets for FireWire and Universal Serial Bus 2.0
connectors with the main Auto / Manual control which allows manual
functioning of Focus, Exposure and White Balance.
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Features
The
most remarkable thing is the large, knurled lens ring specially made to
offer great manual focus control while functioning the f1.6 Leica
Dicomar lens. That offers a 12x optical zoom ranging from 3.3mm to
39.6mm. It possesses a filter thread of 43mm. it also features two
digital zoom adjustments – at 30x and 700x. While the second one is only
to use in all circumstances. The lower zoom adjustment develops
amazingly nice pictures and misses the heavy pixilation generally given
by the digital zoom magnification over 24x. Although, similar to all its
companions in the recent series, the NV-GS500 presents input recording
on the DV port; just AV (analogue) outputs thru composite or S-Video is
offered here. On the other hand, there is a place for a mike input, for
that onscreen manual level control checking is given when setting input
levels from an external or integral mike.
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Funnily, no earphone
connector is provided, so operators must assure linkage thru the
existing speaker in the camcorder’s Liquid crystal display screen inlet.
It has
Mega OIS (Optical Image Stabilization), Anti Ground Shooting and Digital
Zoom potentialities. Dissimilar to a lot of other camcorders which
employ anamorphic methods to compress and stretch 16:9 pictures into the
4:3 on the Charge-coupled devices, the GS500’s three 1.07MP
Charge-coupled devices, each one measuring 1/4.7” and developing an
effectual 710,000 pixels in 16:9 mode. Wide screen pictures need 20,000
extra additional pixels than the 690,000 pixels apportioned for taking
shots in 4:3 mode, while recording digital stills pictures to SD card
creates a resolution of 990,000 x 3 pixels in 4:3 mode and 740,000 in
16:9 modes severally.
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