AG-DVX100A Mini DV Panasonic Digital Camcorder

"Find a niche and fill it," the old saying goes, "and you will succeed." Panasonic's professional/industrial division had something like this in mind when it released the Panasonic AG-DVX100 digital camcorder about a year ago. The niche: a growing number of low-budget filmmakers--yes, that's right, film, not video--using digital video equipment to shoot and edit their works. Panasonic, along with a handful of other manufacturers, saw this opportunity and created a camera around the needs and wishes of low-budget digital filmmakers. Chief among these was a set of CCDs and a recording system capable of shooting directly to tape in a way that makes it easy to transfer directly to film without any loss of quality -24 frames per second, progressive scan, as opposed to 60 fields per second interlaced (the norm for NTSC video). Add in audio level controls, a very nice Leica lens, dual XLR inputs and various other fancy features, and you've got a camera that's ready to compete with the Sony VX-2100 and the Canon XL1S on both video and film. After releasing the camera to the marketplace, a host of very picky cinematographers and videographers made some very precise suggestions to improve the next Panasonic digital camcorder. To the company's credit, it has addressed a number of these concerns in a recent re-release of the camera. As a result, we now have the AG-DVX100A Panasonic digital camcorder, the new and improved version of this popular, powerful niche-filler.
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