Panasonic confirms 27 december, delivery date, the price at $ 4995 AF100 AG, micro four thirds camera

The title says everything here Panasonic finally explained that micro four thirds camera AG AF100 will begin shipping December 27 and take appropriate professional $ 4995. If you have forgotten, because it's debut back in April that the camera offers a range of high-end capabilities, including native record 1080/24 p, variable frequency and advanced audio capabilities, and the $ 5,000-not exactly a good market worth more than a series of micro four thirds standard lenses, filters and adapter will sit. Along the break the full press release. Show full PR TextPanasonic delivery Announces prices for AG AF100 4/3 "high definition professional camcorder» december

Best in class 3/4 "sensor offers the depth of field and field of view similar to that of 35 mm film camera, camcorder style camera lenses and film yet low-cost used"

SECAUCUS, n.j.--(BUSINESS_WIRE)-Panasonic solutions company, today announced that AF100 AG, optimized for high-definition video recording of the first micro 4/3-inch video camcorder professional industry, browse by 27 december at a list price of $ 4995.The long-awaited, since it was first introduced at NAB earlier this year, AF100 ready to set new standards for digital cinema.

Addressed to Community video and film offers production AF100, shallow depth of field and wide field of view of the great advantages of flexibility and shaper of the cost of growing line of professional quality, industry standard micro 4/3-inch lenses, filters, and adapter. Full HD 1080 and 720 camera provides excellent video production management, 1080/24 p native registry variable frequency, professional audio and multimedia features and compatibility SDXC.

The design of the sensor 4/3-inch, best in class in the depth of field and field of view similar AF100 35 mm film camera, the camera offers convenient, "said Jan Crittenden Livingston, product manager, decisions, directions, Panasonic."Moreover, Panasonic has helped solve engineering ingenuity and smoothing moiré is DSLR shooters "actually based on what we heard and saw clients make proof of concept AF100: come up with affordable high-definition recording of compulsory acquisition of DSLR cameras because they like the look of the image and then thought about all the solutions. "

AF100 includes great 4/3-inch, MOS imager 16: 9, which minimizes shearing fast scanning Imager with low-pass filter for smoothing and moiré.Besides, it has a built-in optical filter ND. cameras record 1080 60i, 30 p, 50i (own), 25 p and 24 p (mother) and 720 p 60, 50 p, 30 p, 25 p and 24 p native, high-quality PH AVCHD mode (up to 24) the AF100 pulls in HA AVCCAM (17 Mbps) and he (MB), only 1080i. ready for global production standards is switchable camcorder, 60 Hz and 50 Hz. equipped with micro 4/3-inch removable, you can create a matrix of available AF100 at low cost, but the camera lenses and film style fixed-focal lenses and the first.

Variable frequency in 1080p, selectable in 20 stages 12 p, 60 p @ 60 Hz and 50 p 20 steps 12, at a professional level 50 Hz interfaces include uncompressed 4: 2: 2, 8-bit HD-SDI out, HDMI output, USB 2.0. es pulls the SMPTE time code and time code display output code temporary video synchronization ausführen. es has a built-in stereo microphone and two mic/line input, switchable inputs XLR

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Important Part of Buying a Digital Camera

The most important part of buying a digital camera is making sure that
the one you select meets all of your needs.

Digital Camera 101

Better digital cameras uses a chip called a "Charged Coupled Device"
(CCD) instead of film. Light enters the camera, through the open
shutter, and strikes the CCD where it is converted to digital data
before being stored in the camera's memory.

While that is the simple description, things can get pretty
complicated from there.

Megapixels & Resolution

Resolution is a measure of how many pixels are used to make a digital
copy of an image. Pixels are tiny dots of light that make up a digital
image.

The quality of a digital camera's image is usually measured in
'Megapixels' where each megapixel represents one million pixels.

Here's how to determine how many megapixels you'll need depending upon
the type of photos you will be taking and what you intend to do with
them.

1 megapixel

Almost obsolete, you might still find these in cell phones, PDAs, and
desktop "web" cameras. They're OK if you only intend to email pictures
to other people and those people aren't going to be printing them.

1.1 to 2 megapixels

Only slightly better than the 1.0, this resolution is OK for an average
4x6 snapshot, but it isn't going to be a production quality image.

2.1 to 3 megapixels

This is the beginning of the decent camera range. You get very good 4x6
images and reasonably good 5x7 images. These cameras are low cost and
provide a good platform for beginners.

3.1 to 4 megapixels

You are qualified to say that you have a "pretty good" camera. You get
professional quality 4x6 images, real good 5x7 and 6x9 shots, and
somewhat decent, but not great 8x10 images.

4.1 to 5 megapixels and up

People will be saying "Hey, great pictures!". You can count on
professional images all the way up to 8x10's. Of course, as the
megapixel count goes up, so does the price.

If you are only going to be viewing your pictures online, such as
posting them at a photo site or using them on your web pages, keep your
money in your pocket and pick yourself up something in the 1.5 megapixel
range.

If you will be shooting pictures that will be printed at a print house,
such as for brochures, postcards, etc, then you will need at least a 5
megapixel camera if not higher. Of course, you'll also need to have a
fat wallet or a lot of open to buy on your credit card because, even
thought prices are steadily falling, these puppies aren't cheap!

Once you've solved the megapixel puzzle, the rest of a digital camera's
features, such as lens types, storage capacity and shutter speed are
pretty routine and easy to understand. You shouldn't have a problem
deciding on those features.

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