Digital Video Camera & Camcorder Review

Features include: VariCam® Variable Frame Rate 16:9 HD CinemaTM Camera with CineGammaTM Software
U.S. List Price $65,900.00.

The AJ-HDC27 VariCam HD Cinema Camera brings variable frame rate acquisition to the DVCPRO HD product line up. This is the first high definition production camera that is capable of variable frame rate at the touch of a button. Individual frame rates may be selected from: 4-fps to 60-fps in single frame increments. Frame rates may be changed during recording. Designed as a high quality production camera, this native 720p camcorder can be used for 60-fps or the film-like 24-fps acquisition. When acquiring for 24-fps projects, higher than 24-fps operation can be processed for slow motion effects while slower than 24-fps operation can be processed to speed up motion. Additionally, the variable frame rates and related variable shutter speeds create some very interesting ghost like motion blur effects, warp speed zoom effects, and long exposure still shots typical of what one might see in music videos, sci-fi dramas and dream sequences.

TMCnet has reviewed the Panasonic AJ-HDC27H and writes - “(Broadcast Engineering)Pro shooters have come to swear by it and not at
it a remarkable achievement in itself for a complex
electro-mechanical device. The Panasonic VariCam has earned its
reputation as an industry workhorse, performing with great
reliability while producing superb images under extreme
conditions.

The camera’s natural fall-off of image contrast and color
saturation in the shadows has always been a notable advantage; its
DVCPROHD 100Mb file size also proves more practical and manageable
than other HD codecs on desktop workstations and servers. In many
ways, however, the camera is still a work in progress. Indeed,
low-light performance and noise issues have been addressed in the
latest VariCam model the AJ-HDC27H.”

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