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List Price : Price : $2,859.95
List Price : Price : $2,859.95
Product Description
The cooler than cool AG-HMC150 drew big crowds at the 2008 NAB Show. Why? Simply because it offers an unheard of Bang for the Buck, in a 1/3-inch three-chip hand held tapeless HD camcorder, while retaining the core versatility of the DVX100B. The HMC150 sports a 28mm lens right out of the box and a new PH Record mode (21 Mbps) which offers higher resolution with a host of recording formats including 24p. Add to that, amazing low light performance, long record and battery time and professional Audio capabilities at a price that will make it an instant hit with a wide range of AV Shooters, Indie creators and Event video professionals.
- Full range of HD formats: 1080/60i, 1080/30p, 1080/24p (Native); 720/60p, 720/30p, 720/24p (Native)
- Higher bit-rate recording than consumer models (21 Mbps PH Mode)
- 13X Wide angle 28 mm lens out of the box (35mm equiv.); 1/3-inch CCD Progressive Imagers
- Waveform Monitor, Vectorscope plus two Focus displays for accurate, quick focus
- 3.5-inch LCD monitor displays thumbnails for quick non-linear access to clips
- Full range of HD formats: 1080/60i, 1080/30p, 1080/24p (Native) , 720/60p, 720/30p, 720/24p (Native)
- 13X Wide angle 28 mm lens out of the box (35mm equiv.) , 1/3-inch CCD Progressive Imagers
Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 3CCD AVCHD 24fps Camcorder Reviews
Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 3CCD AVCHD 24fps Camcorder Reviews
| 151 of 181 people found the following review helpful:  Not worth the price, but there is not much alternative, By Cornelius Fortinbras III "fabled" (Madagascar) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 3CCD AVCHD 24fps Camcorder (Electronics) Panasonic AG-HMC150 I shoot weddings and I have used The HMC150, the Canon AH1. From the beginning let me first tell you where my opinion is coming from - price tag: $3500 First off, neither of these cameras are brilliant in low light. They have 1/3 imagers. I don't care if they are made of gold and there are ten of them. 1/3 imagers are too small to gather enough light, even if you attached the Hubbell telescope to them. To put such tiny sensors in a $3500 is poor, cheap engineering especially when SLR have larger sensors, shoot HD and don't cost this much. Who are these camera angled at? Videographers and indie filmmakers. As a videographer what are you most concerned with - Low light. Why? Because you cannot control lights at weddings at parties, etc. So your camera has to be able to handle it. As an Indie filmmaker what are you most concerned with - The ability to... Read more 43 of 49 people found the following review helpful:  WOW :-), By This review is from: Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 3CCD AVCHD 24fps Camcorder (Electronics) I received my 150 a little over a week ago. Bought it because I wanted to move up to HD and get out of the tape business. It did not come with an SDHC card. Bought an 8 GB to carry me over until my 16 GB cards arrive via Amazon. I am still on the learning curve on it. Especially liked the large comfortable color view eye piece. I was also amazed by the clarity of the video play back on my 48" LCD screen. Used the three cable output first, that came with the camera( Video, Lt. Rt. Audio ) Very clear video, much clearer than my trusty old Canon GL-2 It does not come with an HDMI cable. Bought one locally and tried it. Plugged one end into the HDMI out port on the camera and the other end into the HDMI port of my TV. I was blown away by how clear it was !! The video was clearer than some of the stations I view in HD. On playback, you are given a thumbnail of the first frame of each scene you shot when you turned the camera on. On... Read more 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful: Nothing new to add... other than I love this camera, By This review is from: Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 3CCD AVCHD 24fps Camcorder (Electronics) One thing you need to keep in mind is that editing AVCCam/AVCHD is a P.I.T.A. I'm using CS4 on a 2.4 quadcore with 8gig of RAM and Vista64 and it's sluggish with frequent lockups. I'm getting Cineform ProspectHD v4 when it comes out to compensate. Vegas 8.0c and Edius works well I'm told, and FCP need to convert it to ProRes (or whatever it's called). I think Avid needs to convert it to a native codec as well. Panasonic does offer a free converter to DVCProHD on there website [Update 6/5/09... Premiere CS4 4.1 update is out, and editing is much easier. Also, Prospect v4 is out, and editing with the demo I've been trying has been a joy] That said... the camera itself is awesome. Really. I'm coming from the DVX, and this is leaps and bounds above that (which is saying something). The images I'm getting are beautiful. I'm planning on going out now on my days off to shoot just for the fun of it. I really can't add anything that hasn't been said... Read more |
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