Panasonic AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD Camcorder

MPN: AGHVX200

Description: The Panasonic AG-HVX200 answers the demands of the professional HDTV photographer with a compact and feature packed acquisition tool. The camera is compatible with DVCProHD, DVCPro50, DVCPro25 and consumer DV recording standards. It uses 3 wide aspect CCDs for true 16:9 reco... read more

The Panasonic AG-HVX200 answers the demands of the professional HDTV photographer with a compact and feature packed acquisition tool. The camera is compatible with DVCProHD, DVCPro50, DVCPro25 and consumer DV recording standards. It uses 3 wide aspect CCDs for true 16:9 recordings. It has a wide angle Leica Dicomar HD quality lens with advanced glass coatings. The most significant advance is that it uses the P2 memory cards for recording. This disk based recording medium makes the video immediately accessible to non-linear systems leaving behind a digitizing process that tape always required. minimize

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robertoleque... from CA

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Aug 2006

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User has 6 Months of experience with this product

Pro HD made affordable

Strengths:

Shoots in 1080p, 720p, 24p & more. Slow motion in HD (720p). Too many to list. With $10,000 more, lights & the cost of renting 35mm lenses you can make a film good enough for theatrical release. (imo)

Weaknesses:

Must also consider the extra $1500.- minimum to be able to unleash the camera into HD territory. Then again using memory cards or hard-drives is more of a strenght than a weakness.

Posted Sep 29, 2006 - This camera is worth a closer look and a review like this one would take a lot of planning to make the camera justice. You can go to any of the many forums that discuss equipment and find praise after praise after praise for this little baby. One of them, and probably the one that discusses this camera most extensively, is www.dvxuser.com and look for clips too, that way you can really see the quality of this baby. There are many more forums, just google something like: forums HVX-200. Here is an good fact, more than 2000 cameras were sold months before it even came out. Several hundred were sold before they even finished it and made public the technical capabilities of it! People consider it a revolutionizing product because it brings HD in a quality many untrained people wouldn't know was any different from $100k cameras when used with all the extra equipment available to it.

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knemonic from MI

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Feb 2007

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Expect nothing less from Panasonic

Strengths:

Varicam ability found only in high end eng cameras, abliity to record direct-to-edit footage through p2, hard drives, or even software

Weaknesses:

bigger than I expect, but this could end up being a plus

Posted Feb 20, 2007 - After using the dvx100 series for quite some time, I never hesitated to go to Panasonic for my HD needs. The little things I found about the camera made it obvious that panasonic spent time on the little things too, like using a 4:3 aspect ratio lcd screen on a 16:9 ccd camera, why would they do that? because of all the lcd data displayed is overlayed on the letterboxes on the top and bottom, little things like that make it obvious that they know what they are doing.

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