Memory Card Camera-Recorder: High Image Quality and Advanced Functions in an AVCCAM ... The powerful new tapeless AG-HMC150 joins the Panasonic ... camcorder features highly-acclaimed functions for the ... tapeless HD recording. Using the cost-saving AVCHD format ...
It doesn't matter one way or the other since it all comes out of your editing program the same way...Heck, the HVX200 uses a 'lowly' 960x540 sensor simply upscaling the video to 1920x1080 during recording and people rave about the quality since the glass is good and you can use much lower compression settings...Their only good HD cameras use the P2 cards (which are overpriced...
In about 6 months, we'll be in a better position to judge the HMC-150...So, there's reason for me to believe that the CCDs found in the HMC-150 will perform reasonably well and produce good images...However, MPEG-2 as good as it has gotten, is about at the limit...
Sorry for being slow on the NAB reports but here is the Panasonic announcements for new camcorders...The good news is that the Equinox have already an underwater housing for Panasonic HMC-150...
Panasonic thought it was April and NAB time today, and so they had a bunch of press releases...The AG-HMC150 sounds sweet with its 3.5? LCD screen, but two things really bug me to the point that I want to throw this camera to the head of its product manager...Rather, the AG-HMC150 is the successor to the DVX-100… or the HD (non tape) version of the DVX-100...2:2...
It has everyting a creative videographer like me wants...I declare I will be abandoning my all-time-favorite Sony camcorders for now till they come up with a better CMOS technolgy that works in low light...
