[MacDV] Re: Panasonic PV-GS70 camcorder

[Norm Lamoureux]

Thank's Juan,

Will be using the camcorder primarily for video. At
this point the camera function would be an added
bonus. In other words, I'll be taking a lot more video
than pictures. Read good reviews about it's video
capabilities. Still waiting for Panasonic to reply
back to me about the "Analog to Digital passthrough".
I'll let you know how I make out.

Thank's 
Norm L.


--- Juan Mariscal <juanm at mac.com> wrote:
> Norm
> 
> 
> re; using a video camera as a still camera.
> 
> 
> keep in mind that virtually all digital video camera
> will produce low 
> resolution still photos.
> 
>  From what I read on Panasonic's page for the specs
> of the camera you 
> are looking at, this camera will produce a produce a
> photo of 1.2 
> megapixels. That is not very high quality AND it
> seems by the footnotes 
> on this spec that some digital hocus pocus may be
> involved to get you 
> that quality image.
> 
>   If you ONLY intention is to use these photos for
> insertion into 
> video's then that will be fine at 72 dpi. But you
> will NOT be able to 
> produce a good and crisp 5 x 7 photo. A 4 x 6 photo
> will be OK, though. 
> If you need to crop your photo which I almost always
> do, you will not 
> be working from the whole image and the amount of
> megapixels you 
> started with become even more important since you
> are only printing a 
> portion of the image
> (http://www.digital-camera-review.us/pixels.html)
> 
> A $200 still 2.0 megapixel digital camera will
> produce much better 
> quality stills that the panasonic Video camera
> 
> Don't expect to get two high quality cameras in one.
> 
> Perhaps others have a differing opinion.
> Again it depends on what you will do with the
> resutling photo 
> especially if you want to print it.
> 
> my 2 cents. good luck
> 
> Juan
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 06:46 PM, Norm
> Lamoureux wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ryan,
> >
> > I appreciate your feedback. I'm glad to hear you
> like
> > the camcorder so far. I to will be converting VHS
> to
> > DVD so let me know how that works out for you. As
> for
> > the USB connection for the digital stills, I don't
> > have a digital camera and was hopeing to use the
> > camcorder for that as well. I will be using it
> more
> > for it's video capabilities but would still like
> to
> > use it as a camera too. If you have any luck with
> that
> > let me know. I am waiting for a reply from
> Panasonic
> > for the same questions. I will foward the info
> when
> > and IF I get it. Thank's again,
> >
> > Norm L.
> 
> 
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