Panasonic AG-DVX100B Review
Published by Digital Video Camera / Camcorder Review Staff January 25th, 2006 in Camcorder Reviews, Panasonic, HD Cameras
Features include: 1/3″ 3-CCD 24P/30P/60i DV Cinema Camera with CineSwitchTM Technology, CineGammaTM Software and IEEE 1394 Interface. U.S. List Price $3,995.00
The Black Sapphire AG-DVX100B DV Cinema Camera. Over 20 new features and improvements!!!
DVX User has an article on the Panasonic AG-DVX100B and writes - “Okay, so there’s a new color. And it uses a new manufacturing process that eliminates lead. So is that it? Is that all there is that’s new with the AG-DVX100B?
Come on. You don’t think Panasonic would lame out like that, do you? On the contrary, the DVX100B offers 20 improvements over the DVX100A it’s replacing! Some are significant, some are minor, but all are welcome changes that make an old favorite just that much better.
First, what’s not there: no 16:9 CCD chipset. No P2 card slot. Nothing radical like that; and truthfully, nobody should expect changes like that in a model revision anyway. This is a “letter�? revision, not a whole revamp (if you want features like that, Panasonic has a new HVX200 they’d like to point you towards).�?
Digital Producer Magazine has reviewed the Panasonic AG-DVX100B and writes - “The successor to the highly-popular AG-DVX100A and AG-DVX100, which have made serious filmmaking affordable for a new level of content producers, the AG-DVX100B is among the first professional camcorders to be RoHS*-compliant, i.e. a product that is virtually free of lead, arsenic and other hazardous substances. Compliance with the RoHS directive becomes mandatory in July 2006 in Europe.”
“Our objective with the AG-DVX100B was to create an environmentally-conscious camcorder while improving upon the outstanding feature-set of its predecessors,�? said Jan Crittenden Livingston, DVCPRO/DVCPRO50 Business Line Manager, Panasonic Broadcast. “While making it RoHS compliant, we revisited the product design and enriched the camera with many improvements that video professionals have been requesting.”
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