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2/3 Inch Panasonic 1080i HD Camera before the Vari cam Help me Jan
Jan or anyone else who can help, I’m looking for info about the DVCProHD 1080i 2/3 inch ccd camera that Panasonic made before the varicam. I am going to be shooting a project on it coming up soon and I’m not able to get the model number from anywhere else. One really distinguishing factor is that I was told it has 3 2.5 million pixel ccds in it. The guy that I’m going to be working with said that he wished panasonic still made it, because it gave such a good picture. The body of the camera looks just like a varicam, but supposedly it was made before the varicam. Does anyone know what model this was and where I can read up about it? Thanks
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Steve:
That camera was the AJ-HDC20A, it was a 1080i DVCPRO HD camcorder and as you state used 3 x 2.2M pixel (1920 x 1080) FIT imagers. The camera made nice pictures, but as it was an interlaced imgaer lacked any 24p features. It also predated the VariCam’s CineGamma features set. The camera went out of production about five years ago. Here is a link to the operating manual, it’s a 3MB PDF.
https://service.us.panasonic.com/operman/findmanual.aspx?model=AJHDC20A
Good luck, it’s a nice camera, let us know if you need help with menus etc.
Steve Mahrer (Panasonic) in Vegas!)
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Thank you, that is it. I’ll be second camera with a guy that is really good, so I’m sure he can help teach me the menu system. The project is a pilot for a cooking show, kind of like Food 911 on the food channel, so the cinegamma and 24p don’t really matter for this project. Anyway, thanks so much for the help.
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Steve:
Have fun, the menu is similar to the VariCam, just missing the VFR / Gamma stuff. Anybody familiar with the VariCam shoudl feel right at home.
Shoot good stuff!
Steve
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