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Mini-DV Camera-Recorder (NTSC)
Mini
Digital
Video
Cassette
The Image Quality, Mobility and Versatility that Professionals Need
The AG-DVX100 shattered conventional notions of what a DV camera-recorder could do, delivering image quality, functions and operating ease suitable for professional applications. As the first model in its class to offer the 24p/30p Cinema mode,
the AG-DVX100 was particularly well received by filmmakers and image creators. Now, Panasonic introduces the AG-DVX100A. This advanced new model takes the DV camera a big step forward, retaining the popular features of its predecessor while adding enhancements that reflect feedback from professionals who used the AG-DVX100.The AG-DVX100A offers higher image quality and more functions than its predecessor. Even more important, it provides high-level specifications and design improvements that cater to the needs of professional camera operators. Mobile, versatile and easy to use, the Diamond Graphite AG-DVX100A has everything you need for creative content production and active image gathering.
Further Evolution in the DV Camera-Recorder
Enhanced 24p/30p Progressive Mode Functions
Focus assist, gain up (+12 dB max.), and a SMPTE color bar display have been added to enhance shooting in 24p/30p Progressive mode.
Improved Color Reproduction
Optimized color separation optics and a new high-performance lens that uses low-dispersion glass combine to capture vivid, faithful colors.
New Cine-Like Gamma Curves and Enhanced Image Adjustments
New modes have been added to the gamma curve and matrix settings. New V DTL Level, Coring, and Knee adjustments have also been added.
Smoother Zooming and Focusing
The operating feel of the manual zoom and manual focus ring has been further enhanced. You feel virtually the same steady resistance as when using a conventional professional lens. Slow zoom has been extended from 20 seconds to a dramatic 30 second duration.
Focus Assist and New Recording Mode for Improved Ease and Versatility
The viewfinder features a B/W display mode and detail (PEAKING) function for easier focusing. Three user-assignable buttons (USER1, USER2, USER3) give you instant, one-touch access to three setup functions. A new 15-sec interval recording mode has also been added.
Slow Shutter Function for Higher Sensitivity and Dramatic Effects
The slow shutter (accumulative mode) drops the shutter speed to 1/4 sec, 1/6 sec, etc., for higher sensitivity low light shooting and dramatic, frame- by-frame like effects.
New Squeeze Mode for 16:9 Recording
The AG-DVX100A provides high-quality wide-image recording in letterbox mode, the new squeeze mode, or with the optional 16:9 conversion lens (sold separately)
Shown with optional unidirectional microphone AG-MC100G.
Ultimate Creativity
Image quality that far exceeds anything in its class, plus an evolved 24p/30p progressive function
Superior Image Rendering with the Leica Dicomar™ Lens, Plus OIS
The Leica Dicomar lens featured in the AG-DVX100A incorporates Leica optical technology and know-how. Use of low-dispersion glass reduces color aberration and increases resolution, while a multi-coating process minimizes flare and ghosts. The results are sharp, crisp, beautifully rendered images with delicate nuances and exceptional shading. The lens system features 15 lens elements in 11 groups, including three aspherical lenses. Panasonic's advanced OIS (Optical Image Stabilizer) drastically cuts the blurring caused by hand shake. Optical processing with an automatic correction function helps assure consistently clear, sharp images.
High Image Quality with 12-Bit A/D Conversion
The AG-DVX100A features an A/D converter that uses the same 12-bit processing as broadcast camera-recorders. Precisely digitizing the gradation and colors captured by the progressive CCD, this A/D converter supports gamma switching and other fine downstream image adjustments — one of the keys to achieving rich image expression.
RGB Gamma Processor Provides Rich, Cine-Like Tones
Panasonic has greatly expanded the expressive capability of the DV camera by creating unique gamma functions such as Cine-Like gamma curves, which produce images strikingly similar in tone to film images. For each of the RGB signals, the gamma curve settings are processed immediately upstream from the digital signal processing circuit. This helps achieve outstanding image quality.
The AG-DVX100A now introduces three new gamma curve settings — Cine-Like-D, Cine-
Like-V, and B.Press — giving you a total of seven to work with.
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Optical Image Stabilizer
aspherical lens
*Leica and Dicomar are registered trademarks of Leica Microsystems IR GmbH.
410,000-Pixel, 3CCD Image System Provides F11 Sensitivity for Superior Image Quality
Panasonic designed the AG-DVX100A to deliver the highest sensitivity and picture quality in its class. At its heart is a 3CCD RGB system comprising three 1/3-inch, 410,000-pixel progressive CCDs developed especially for broadcast and professional applications. The new on-chip lens
design achieves high F11 sensitivity, allowing the AG-DVX100A to record in light as dim as below three lux, for example, in nighttime news gathering. Picture quality is outstanding, with a high S/N ratio that means less noise in darker parts of the image and low smear that allows shooting in sunlight or under bright spotlights.
High-Sensitivity Slow Shutter (in cumulative) Function
The slow shutter function uses image accumulation to enable shutter speeds with frame rates reduced by half or more. You get the ultra-high sensitivity needed for nighttime shooting without illumination, as well as dramatic frame-by-frame or soft focus effects.
Gamma Curve image
CINE-LIKE |
Film-like images |
CINE-LIKE-D |
The Cine-Like mode shifted to prioritize dynamic range |
CINE-LIKE-V |
The Cine-Like mode shifted to prioritize contrast |
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Images with strong black contrast |
B.PRESS |
Images with even stronger black contrast |
NORM |
Standard video gamma |
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HIGH |
Bright images with enhanced gradation in dark portions |
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High-Quality, Native Progressive 24p/30p Mode
Choose from three shooting modes: 24p (24 fps, progressive) for images with the look and motion of film movies, 30p (30 fps, progressive), or standard 60i (60 fps, interlace). Thanks to its progressive CCD,
the AG-DVX100A creates native progressive images with outstanding vertical resolution — unlike images produced using conventional electronic interpolation. With its high mobility and low costs,
the AG-DVX100A is the ideal tool for producing indies, shorts, or streaming video.
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30p image |
60i image |
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