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| Brand: Panasonic
Category: Photography
List Price: $2,099.00
Buy New: $1,779.95
You Save: $319.05 (15%)
New (4) from $1,779.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 3978
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Optical Zoom: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.2 x 1
MPN: AG-HSC1U
UPC: 791871303054
EAN: 0791871303054
ASIN: B000NAW2PS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 My favorite camera yet - I love it! November 11, 2007
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
I'm an editor by trade, so for me the work flow and support for this format was very important. If you work with iMovie use of this footage is fast and seamless. And if you prefer Final Cut Pro (as I do) it works flawlessly with that as well now, providing you have the current FCP 6 (which is part of the Studio 2 release). So where some have complained about being able to edit with this format, I don't see that as a problem anymore.
The included battery powered HD works great (it's larger then it looks in the picture though). It's a great way to download your footage while you shoot. It works well.
The image quality is amazing. Really amazing. My previous camera was a Sony DV Camera (just a consumer model) and it was great but this is so much better.
The camera is very easy to use and you get used to just having it with you. I take it to more locations then I normally would, which means I actually shoot more footage.
One thing to consider in the big picture is where you will store all of this footage. Because I already work with tapeless footage at my office I have the necessary hardware to not only edit with the footage, but also back it up for long term archival purposes. If you don't have this, you will probably want to get the optional DVD burner that allows you to burn a card directly to a DVD. But even DVD is not a good long term solution. Personally I use LTO-3 tapes because they have a 30 year shelf life, but this is not something most consumers will have. Blue-ray is probably another good format to back up to. The point being, don't just think about how easy it is to shoot, think about the whole process from editing to final long term storage of your footage. This way of working does require a little more work along the way to stay organized and to be able to find your footage.
I purchased this model over the 5 or 1 model (I can't remember the rest of the letters but if you've been looking at this camera you probably know what i"m talking about) mainly because of two reasons. One is that it has a line in for a wireless mic, which was important to me even if I don't use a wireless mic all the time. Also, the gamma of this camera is better matched to Panasonic P2 cameras, making it a slightly (and I do mean slightly) better choice if you need to match this footage to a more professional camera.
I hope this information has been helpful to you.
Update Saturday; January 26, 2008 - If you would like to see a sample video that was cut from the footage shot with this camera, use the link below. Keep in mind this is not the full quality, but you'll see how sharp the picture actually is. It also shows how weak the camera is in low light situations.
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 This cam should come with a warning label. June 13, 2007
15 out of 26 found this review helpful
Record all you want just don't try to edit any of the video. The color saturation is excellent unless backlit in which case everything washes out. The focus is very good. Any motion creates a slight staccato like vibration in the picture which I believe is coming from the internal camera stabilization device. I would love to demonstrate all of the above, but my final cut studio based edit bay does not support AVCHD. There is the possibility of going out from the HDMI port with a lot of ifs, if you have a tower that supports the capture cards that support HDMI. Since I don't have any of those, my most excellent footage of exotic wildlife from Costa Rica will live inside the camera.
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