Panasonic AG-DVX100 Professional Camcorder CCD Black

AG-DVX100 Professional 1/3" IT 3CCD Mini-DV Camcorder Superior Image Rendering with the Leica Dicomar™ Lens, Plus OIS
The Leica Dicomar lens featured in the AG-DVX100 incorporates Leica optical technology and know-how. Use of low-dispersion glass reduces colour aberration and increases resolution, while a multicoating process minimizes flare and ghosting. The results are sharp, crisp, beautifully rendered images with delicate nuances and exceptional shading. The lens system features 15 lens elements in 11 groups, including three aspherical lenses. Panasonic's advanced OIS (Optical Image Stabilizer) drastically cuts the blurring caused by hand shake. Optical processing with an automatic correction function helps assure consistently clear, sharp images.

470,000-Pixel, 3CCD Image System Provides F11 Sensitivity for Superior Image Quality
Panasonic designed the AG-DVX100 to deliver the highest sensitivity and picture quality in its class. At its heart is a 3CCD RGB system comprising three 1/3-inch, 470,000-pixel progressive CCDs developed especially for broadcast and professional applications. The new on-chip lens design achieves high F11 sensitivity, allowing the AG-DVX100B to record in light as dim as below three lux, for example, in nighttime news gathering.
Picture quality is outstanding, with a high S/N ratio that means less noise in darker parts of the image and low smear that allows shooting in sunlight or under bright spotlights.

High-Sensitivity Slow Shutter (in cumulative) Function
The slow shutter function uses image accumulation to enable shutter speeds with frame rates reduced by half or more. You get the ultrahigh sensitivity needed for nighttime shooting without illumination, as well as dramatic frame-by-frame or soft focus effects.

High Image Quality with 12-Bit A/D Conversion
The AG-DVX100 features an A/D converter that uses the same 12-bit processing as broadcast camera-recorders. Precisely digitizing the gradation and colours captured by the progressive CCD, this A/D converter supports gamma switching and other fine downstream image adjustments — one of the keys to achieving rich image expression.

High-Quality, Native Progressive 25p Mode
The AG-DVX100 provides two shooting modes: 25p (25 fps, progressive) and standard 50i (50 fps, interlace). In 25p mode, the AG-DVX100 gives images and motions a film-like effect — they look very much like the images and motions of conventional 24fps film.
Thanks to its progressive CCD, the AG-DVX100 creates native progressive images with outstanding vertical resolution — unlike
images produced using conventional electronic interpolation. With its high mobility and low costs, the AG-DVX100 is the ideal tool for producing indies, shorts, or streaming video.

25p Shooting — 50i Recording
The 25p images are split into two frames and recorded onto tape in the standard 50i TV format. They can be played back with an ordinary DV VTR and TV monitor and edited with a DV system. With 25p mode and cine-like gamma, the AG-DVX100 lets you produce video images that closely replicate film images, with a depth not previously possible.

Wide-Angle/Zoom Lens Answers Professional Needs
The AG-DVX100's zoom lens extends all the way to 4.5 mm (equivalent to 32.5mm on a 35mm lens), covering the full wide-angle range needed in most broadcast and professional shooting. It gives you ample range for close-ups, recording in small rooms, and self-recorded interviews. There's no need to carry around a bulky wide-angle conversion lens. And with a minimum object distance (MOD) of approximately 0.6 meter in telephoto mode, the AG-DVX100 has the maneuverability of a handheld camera.

Fast, Smooth Cam-Driven Manual Zoom
The cam-driven (mechanical) manual zoom ring provides the same smooth, easy zooming as cameras with interchangeable lenses. Its direct operation gives you fast, precise zooming control.
When you turn the zoom ring, you experience the familiar steady resistance as with familiar 35mm lenses.

Focus Assist
Enjoy quick, sharp focusing manually or automatically. In auto mode, you get the quick, sharp focusing needed in news gathering or when shooting at a high or low angle.
When set to infinity, the focal distance is immediately prepared for the next manual focus. When in manual mode, pressing the Push Auto button temporarily activates auto focus.
Macro Focus can be achieved either Manually or Automatically when the zoom lens is in the wide angle position.

Three User Buttons for Customized Operation
The AG-DVX100 provides three user buttons, each of which can be assigned any one of the 11 functions described below.
The assigned functions can then be accessed at the touch of a button.
This lets you customize the AG-DVX100 for quicker, easier, more versatile operation.

3-Position White Balance with Auto Tracking White Function
One press of the AWB button is all it takes to adjust the white balance and black balance. There are three white balance values to select from: one that's preset, and two (A, B) that you can set and save in memory. The auto tracking white balance (ATW) function can also be assigned to any of the three positions. The ATW mode supports fast, active shooting by adjusting the white balance in realtime as lighting conditions hange.

First DV camera-recorder with time-code synchro function - Supports multi-angle recording with multiple cameras
Connecting two AG-DVX100 units together with a DV cable (IEEE1394) allows synchronous time-code setting, which then enables time-code-locked editing of clips recorded with multiple camerarecorders for "TC synchro editing." The AG-DVX100 is the industry's first DV camera-recorder with this function, which was previously available only on bigger, bulkier camera-recorders. The built-in SMPTE time-code generator/reader lets you select, and preset Free Run/Rec Run modes. User Bits are also provided, letting you record your choice of date, time, frame rate or user data.