Quality Professional Camera for Corporate Video Production
Introducing the Panasonic AG-HMC80PJ, a shoulder-mount camcorder from the popular electronics company that is ideally suited to corporate video production. Panasonic has recently announced it will lower the price of the AG-HMC80PJ, making it even more suited to the budgets of corporate video production companies. Professional video production companies and people that create content for businesses, charities and organizations need the best technology they can afford in order to develop the best quality end product for their clients.
The Panasonic AG-HMC80PJ camera is one of many shoulder-mount camcorders on the market today but it has specifications that make it particularly suitable for the corporate video business. The camera is a 3MOS AVCCAM HD camcorder with both HD and SD recording capabilities. Where many camcorders offer only one option, this Panasonic model gives the flexibility of two. This makes it good value for videographers that need to use both formats. The HMC80 camera boasts a high-resolution imager with three megapixels. This format offers a number of AVCCAM recording formats as well as an enhanced capability for stable and safe shoulder-mount filming.
The HMC80 camera comes with a MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 configuration for high profile encoding. This system allows for the doubling of its bandwidth efficiency as well as an improvement in the overall performance of the camera as compared to MPEG-2 compression-based systems, such as HDV. All this technology ensures that all your recordings are crisp and sharp, even when you are filming fast motion footage. The quality is sustained without the degradation of the image or any dropouts.
The HMC80 offers a number of recording functions for convenience and performance. These functions include a pre-record mode, interval recording, metadata capture and a shot marker. There are many additional features included in the HMC80 camera. These features include a waveform monitor display, a mode display, a zebra display and colour bars. Also included are focus-assist features like a focus bar display as well as an enlarged display, plus the capabilities of auto focus complete with face detection. The camera has white balance, tally lamps, a smooth zoom with a soft landing and enhanced show shutter and new synchro-scan shutter systems. There are three individually programmable user buttons and the camera also comes complete with a wireless remote.
The camera can take still images at 10.6 megapixels each and will store these images as standard JPEGs in the solid state card. You can play back AVCHD recordings as well as stills directly from the solid state card on viewing equipment such as BluRay players, laptops and game consoles.
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