Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on April 17, 2008
Panasonic likes cameras with solid-state storage flavour. The unveiling in Las Vegas of its new HPX-170 handheld with P2 flash is therefore no surprise. The model’s highlights are:
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Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on April 15, 2008
NAB 2008 started yesterday and is going to be the center of attention this week. Panasonic announced the new prosumer AG-HMC150 of the AVCCAM family, a handheld videocamera that uses AVCHD MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 algorithms and SD/SDHC flash card storage. Capture reaches a maximum of 1,440×1,080 with three CCDs and output is the usual 16:9 HD.
Do not be put off by the chosen type of storage as a 32GB SDHC card can get you up to 12 hours of recording in full resolution and its lower quality HE mode at 6Mbps. However higher quality modes of course provide better results and the best one is PH mode with a maximum flow rate of 24Mbps and an average of 21Mbps. The optics include optical stabilisation and 13X Leica Dicomar lens starting from a useful 28mm wide angle. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on April 15, 2008
Only last week we talked about how Fujifilm will sell P2 cards and how the 64GB model will offer enough capacity to avoid changing storage media while recording longer events. The fact that Panasonic -the company that brought us P2 cards- responds with its own P2 card is no coincidence. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on April 9, 2008
Everybody is salivating over Panasonic’s P2 flash storage cards for digital video. They offer all the right -fast- data flow rates and are robust enough for even the roughest video applications. The main sticking point has always been incredibly high prices.
Fujifilm decided that now is the right time to market P2 cards and will initially sell 16GB and 32GB models, while later this year a 64GB model will be released. The later will give some breathing space to users that currently use mostly 8GB cards -for cost reasons- and have to swap P2 cards every few minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on April 3, 2008
Like Sony today, Panasonic goes for light weight. But in this case we have VGA resolution at 640×480 -16:9 also available- something that makes the SDR-S7 a budget model for the price of a mobile telephone.
Size is ultra small at 41×102x59mm and weight is 183g including battery and SD card storage. The €270 price makes it a perfectly justifiable choice for YouTube videos or for children that want to get started with video. Who said that there is no room for non-HD models?
Link: Akihabara
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