Hitachi: Digital Camcorders

Drive As A Volume

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Drive As A Volume

Drive As A Volume


It is not a low-battery warnings for a still camera, even in a pinch. The any dvd player well, but the midprice minidv camcorder for low light program autoexposure mode and manual focus can be difficult to use in the field. The DZ-GX3100A's video quality is about what you'd expect from a midprice MiniDV camcorder with an equivalent sensor . Colors were muted but accurate, and images were reasonably sharp, though not as sharp as those of Hitachi's step-up models. Of course, if you do not care much about stills and can sacrifice a little bit of sharpness in your video, then you may want to take a look at this camcorder's less-expensive sibling, the Hitachi DZ-GX3100A. performance of hitachi DZMV780A The Hitachi DZMV780A performs much better than Hitachi's similar problem. There's no FireWire output, but most users will probably just drop the mini DVD in their computer's Dvd drive to transfer their footage. That's still more expensive than competing entry-level minidv models , but you are paying the extra dough for the convenience of having your movies burned directly to a DVD inside the camera, albeit a mini DVD that stores only 18 minutes of video at the highest quality. It handles both 4:3 and 1-megapixel camcorder.

This difference in sensors ends up affecting still images more noticeably than video. This difference in sensors ends up affecting still images more noticeably than video. The auto white balance produced slightly warm results with our lab's tungsten lights but fared better than the tungsten white-balance mode, which had a magenta tinge. Other features include a 10X optical zoom lens, automatic and manual white balance and exposure options, as well as five preprogrammed autoexposure modes and three preset white-balance settings.

The downside to that is the handful of touch-sensitive buttons hidden behind the 2.7-inch, wide-screen LCD. Though it uses 1.1 megapixels to capture stills, it uses only 690,000 pixels for video. However, if you like to fiddle with the settings while you shoot, you may run into some snags.


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