Plug & Play
Panasonic Gets Progressive
Words: Tom Samiljan
Making a digital movie that approximates the look of celluloid just got cheaper. Usually the province of $100,000 professional cameras, Panasonic's long-awaited, much-talked-about AG-DVX100 is the first to bring cinema style, 24-frame progressive scan images within reach of the independent digital filmmaker. Equipped with three newly designed CCDs, Panasonic's latest miniDV prosumer model can also capture images in standard 60-field-per-second NTSC (interlace scan). The AG-DVX100 has up-to-date IEEE-1394 FireWire connections for uploading footage to a desktop, but also includes some low-tech, filmmaker-friendly features such as manual zoom, focus, iris and audio controls.
Panasonic AG-DVX100 | 24P Mini-DV Camcorder | $3,495 |
