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Panasonic VDR-D300 Camcorder Review
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The 3 Charge-coupled
device difficulty on DVD camcorders has eventually been overcome. It is
done by the Panasonic VDR-D300. This high-class DVD cam with an MSRP of
USD999 must wed the most excellent of Panasonics MiniDV 3 chip
functioning with the comfort and advantage of the DVD format. The D300
comes out to be tough one for top DVD camcorder of the year. But having
the same price tag similar to PV-GS500 (USD1040) and GS400 (USD1099),
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Video Performance
The Panasonic VDR-D300
(USD535) is available loaded with 3 1/6 Charge-coupled devices, each
one having 800K gross pixels. Having 640K effective pixels in 4:3 ratio,
and 540K effective pixels in 16:9 mode. The dissimilarities among the
D300 and Panasonics high-end DVD camcorder are large. Most especially,
the VDR-M75 (USD670) possessed just a single 1/4.5 Charge-coupled
device to function. However DVD cams are getting more and more popular.
Previous year Sonys DVD403 got very popular, which offered a superb
video functioning and results got by its large 1/3 Charge-coupled
device and with 2048 effective pixels. This year Sony seems to maintain
their superiority with the DVD505 (USD664). This is a DVD camcorder
boasting a highly developed 1/3inch ClearVID CMOS sensor along with
1910K effective pixels.
Low Light Performance
As
tremendous as the D300s 3000 lux video functioning and result was, the
low light execution dissatisfied, and looked just to show that chip size
is a most important element in this feature. The 1/6inch Charge-coupled
devices, Regardless of being three in number, were unable to take much
light to cope with a larger, 1/3inch chip camcorder for example DVD403.
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At 60 lux, the VDR-D300
acquired features of a style we have detected in this years Panasonic
camcorders. Same to as in the case of the MiniDV PV-GS39 (USD213), the
good grain noise has taken an increasing trend since last year.
Panasonics intention appears to be an advance in general sharpness,
however the noise is difficult to overlook. Colors are enough strong,
however the greens started to muddy together. The whites, on the other
hand, are much strong. In VDR-M75, in spite of possessing a substandard
bright light result appeared enough better in low light conditions. The
Sony DVD403s video recording is unbelievable. It appears almost as fine
as it behaved at 3000 lux.
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Wide Angle
The VDR-D300 was examined
for the breadth of its field in the two modes, 4:3 and 16:9, to check
whether the camcorder owns true widescreen mode, and to check what the
difference among these two modes is. In 4:3 modes, the D300 featured a
broad angle of 39 degrees. In 16:9 modes, it gave an angle of 39
degrees. This no difference in field width means that the D300 does not
have the characteristic of true widescreen. The PV-GS39, for instance,
gave a difference of 12 degrees when checked in two modes of 4:3 and
16:9.
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