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Panasonic PV-GS150 2.3 MP 3CCD MiniDV Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom
RatingCustomer rating is 3 of 5
BrandPanasonic
List Price$699.95
Special Price
Lowest Used Price$298.99
Features
  • 3CCD sensor dedicates one chip to red, green, and blue for true-to-life color rendering
  • MiniDV recording format offers up to 500 lines of horizontal resolution
  • 10x optical zoom with digital image stabilization
  • 2.5-inch diagonal LCD
  • USB 2.0 enables high-speed, real-time video transfers to PC
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Description
Get True, Crisp Color Pictures together with the World's Smallest 3CCD Mini-DV CamcorderThe PV-GS150, together with its 3CCD Camera System, reproduces color in excellent fidelity by utilizing a separate CCD for reds, greens and blues. It's the same 3CCD technology used in Panasonic professional broadcast equipment, resulting in 540 lines of breathtaking resolution. You can count up on Panasonic 3CCD Digital Camcorders to provide you colors this are as rich and vibrant as your life.Excellence Video Starts together with a Excellence Leica Dicomar LensWorld-renowned lens-maker LEICA has developed an exquisite, multi-coated lens this helps add a high-altitude of detail and subtlety to your creations. Together with refinements like a 2-stage neutral density filter for aperture independent adjustment, you'll appreciate the amazingly crisp, true-to-life color this is a hallmark of Leica Dicomar optics. Capture Still Images Together with Excellent QualityThe PV-GS150 captures still pictures together with incredible detail at up to 2.3-megapixels. The Quad-Density Pixel Distribution Technology, a technology used in Panasonic professional broadcast equipment, makes it possible to capture still images together with amazing excellence. Digital Electronics Picture Stabilizer (D-EIS) Helps Eliminate Blurred ImagesDigital EIS compensates for unintentional hand and camcorder movement to help stabilize your recordings - even while you're recording as a passenger from a moving vehicle. Together with Digital EIS, you won't have to worry concerning shaky soccer games or family outings. Get up shut together with 10x Optical Zoom and 700x Digital ZoomAn optical zoom this great works like a telescope to produce shut-up shots together with extraordinary clarity. And together with the different zoom speeds, you can controlhow fast you go from a wide angle to telephoto zoom. Throughout the use of digital technology, the zoom ratio on the can be increased digitally, producing an incredibly shut shot. You won't miss
Clients interested in the excellent this camcorder technology has to propose will be impressed by the new compact PV-GS65, PV-GS150, and PV-GS250 3CCD camcorders from Panasonic.

These models are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but aren't short on innovative features. Equipped together with a 3CCD imaging system, high-powered digital still ability and ease of use, these new digital video cameras will bring high-excellence digital still and moving pictures for the novice and expert videographer alike.

Illustration of 3CCD imaging device inside the PV-GS150
Illustration of 3CCD imaging device inside the PV-GS150
These top-of-the-line camcorders incorporate the same type of 3CCD imaging system used in Panasonic's celebrated professional camcorders. Unique CCDs are used to reproduce the red, green and blue colors this compose an picture for vivid, true-to-life images together with remarkable depth and presence. The PV-GS150 and PV-GS250 in addition aspect the sophisticated Leica Dicomar lens, which has become known for its capability to capture and finely render the much delicate nuances of light and shade.

High-resolution digital still pictures can be captured via the models' built-in digital still camera aspect, which records to a stamp-sized SD memory card. The 1.2 megapixel PV-GS65, 2.3 megapixel PV-GS150, and 3.1 megapixel PV-GS250 aspect a 10x telescopic optical zoom lens; a 700x digital zoom this lets for amazing 700:1 clear, shut-ups from wide angle to full telephoto zoom; and a macro zoom aspect, which lets users shoot extreme shut-ups at distances as near as 40 centimeters.

Transferring recorded video to a PC is in addition fast and simple via the USB port integrated on every model. All three models incorporate USB 2.0, however the PV-GS150 and PV-GS250 support USB 2.0 high speed enabling real time video transports. All three models have miniDV outputs to maximize compatibility together with the PC.

10x optical zoom of the PV-GS150
10x optical zoom of the PV-GS150
To steady shaky video, the new PV-GS65 and PV-GS150 incorporate digital electronic picture stabilization (EIS), which compensates for unintentional hand and camcorder movement. The PV-GS250 uses optical picture stabilization, which intuitively compensates for any hand movement, so this each shot is beautifully crisp and clear.

The PV-GS250 in addition consists of a manual focus ring giving the customer extra creative control over the video being captured. In addition, all models contain a Soft Skin Detail function this detects skin's different tones and softens the focus to make a realistic blend.

Features of the Panasonic PV-GS150

  • 3CCD digital video camera
  • 10x optical zoom; 700x digital zoom
  • Optical picture stabilization
  • 2.3 megapixel still image ability
  • Leica lens; manual focus ring
  • SD slot
  • USB 2.0

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Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Good Camera   2009-12-08
By Jason Whitfield
This is a great camera for anyone. This is a low budget camera with large budget capabilities. I am impressed with this camera and its features. For a consumer level camera, the GS-150 offers important manual features for those who want more control of the shot.
Customer rating is 1 of 5  Useless...   2009-04-23
By Ryan A. Davis
After you get past the euphoria produced by the great quality picture the gs150 produced you'll soon see the huge flaws in it's other features. The auto focus is incredibly buggy, it will jump into a blurry focus at the slightest change and will take far too long to correct itself. After it's done with it's blurry seizure you are ticked that your son's graduation is really blurry so you set it to manual focus which is controlled by it's joystick and is completely useless for keeping any moving object in focus.
If you want to produce any video beyond that of small, placid, family events then do NOT buy this camera. The clarity of it's picture is overshadowed by it's inability to control it.
Customer rating is 1 of 5  Another Vote to Avoid this Camera   2008-09-16
By D. Kase
I agree with the previous reviews that my camera acquired serious focus problems after about 15 months, in every video we own you can hear me complaining about the focus. More $$$ down the tubes, worse yet, all the video of my 4th child is blurred.
Customer rating is 2 of 5  After one year camera began showing error messages   2008-07-08
By A. Whitney (Texas)
The camera is very good for a year after that it just stops working showing "Push the Reset Switch" error message. If you google that message you will find out that almost all the results are for this kind of camera. My advice as an owner, DO NOT buy this camera.
Customer rating is 1 of 5  Never Again!   2008-03-20
By Patrick Beart (Portland, OR USA)
I really enjoy my Panasonic power tools. They are (surprisingly) the best. I can't say as much for the camcorders. ...

First, this "3CCD" thing is a joke! Panasonic puts the tiniest CCD chips - which feel like grains of sand when you actually view the footage - into their camcorders and hype it as something better. I've seen Panasonic camcorders with a SINGLE CCD chip provide much better color-rendering and contrast than the (so-called) "3CCD" models. That's a side-by-side comparison of camcorders from the same company!

Second, I had my PV-GS150 for about a year, and it took passable footage (in spite of the poor color rendering and contrast). Then, suddenly, the focus went haywire. Both the "auto-focus" and the manual focus no longer hold. The image blurs in and out of focus. This is not an isolated experience, either. Check the online experiences of others and you will find this issue mentioned. The camcorder becomes useless and the "support" charges $261 (flat rate) to fix any hardware issue that is more than a year old!
So, now I have a camcorder that is barely 15 months old and can't be used because the focus won't hold in either mode. ... anyone interested in buying lenses and filters, camera bag, and accessories?!? ... because at least $300 of my investment just became junk!!



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