Lookie here -- time for yet another
HD camcorder in the quickly expanding Everio family. Launched today in the Land of the Rising Sun, the
JVC Everio GZ-HM400 is a Full HD shooter with a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, 2.8-inch flip-out LCD, 32GB of built-in storage, an SD / SDHC expansion slot, HDMI output, a 10x optical zoom and a fairly preposterous (in a good way) 600fps slo-mo mode, just like that ultra-sleek
GZ-X900 we peeked back in March. The unit can also snap 9 megapixel still shots and hold nearly three hours of Full HD content before needing a USB-led cleansing. Indeed, this here camcorder mimics the aforesaid GZ-X900 in pretty much every way save for design, and it's expected on Japanese store shelves early next month for ¥110,000 ($1,157).
[Via
Akihabara News]
Read - JVC press release
Read - Hands-on shots
posted Jul 30th 2009 4:14AM
Frist!!!
What's full HD? 60i? 60p? Obviously 1080. I wish people would stop using the term HD since it can mean anything.
"HD" just refers to being capable of 720p, 1080i, and/or 1080p.
"Full HD" refers to at least 1080i, this was to differentiate between TVs that did 1024x768 or 1368x768 or whereabouts and TVs that actually had 1920x1080.
So, basically, they do have a meaning. And 1080/60p is something that's not really well supported. Better off just doing 1080/60i or 1080/30p.
So we just ignore 1080p? What about all the TV screens that support it, also BD disks, etc. My point is that the nomenclature is pretty stupid. Lets just start referring to things by their (vertical) resolution and scan style: 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc.
My old HF100 record in 1080p30
Won't upgrade till we get 1080p60 24mpbs 5.1 Sound and freaking Wide angle lens built it
Sony uses the term "Full HD" on its 1440x1080i camcorders, so horizontal resolution needs to be made explicit as well - otherwise some sneaky marketing man will con you...
My earlier post was a bit wonky, we should refer to things as 1080p60, 1080i60, 720p60, etc.
Full HD should be renamed Full of SHiTD
True HD
Full HD
1080p (can be something like 1024x1080p lol)
1080p! (1920x1080i converted to fake 1080p)
1080p can be upscaled from 720p
1080p HD READY ! (accepts 1080p signals but display 720p)
Big HDTVs (people assume it's 1080p)
Plasma-LED-LCD
Component HDMI etc
No wonder they can lie and get away with it most people do not want to get into all this crap
We should have 720p set and 1080p set and that's it and HDMI as standard
What res for the slowmo?
To see the money shot? So high that you can see sperm holding on for dear life.
600fps 640×72
300fps 480×116
120fps 480×270
It has a "read" link you know...
I wish a company would come out with a card-based HDMI input video switcher. I know that Black Magic makes a VERY rudimentary one, but I'm talking about a hub with 3-4 HDMI inputs on it, with some software that can live-switch between them. This would be very powerful, in that 3-4 HD camcorders with HDMI-out ($2500 total), a nice wireless mic set ($600), and a decent computer ($1500) could be combined to make a full live-production, HD studio, for less than $5,000. This would be absolutely unheard of even a decade ago.
So...yeah. Someone invent that. You'll make a lot of money.
Mode Capture Size Taking time Duration
600fps 640 × 72 About 2.4 sec About 24 seconds (10 times)
300fps 480 × 116 About 4 sec About 20 seconds (5 times)
120fps 480 × 270 About 4 sec About 8 seconds (2 times)
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32GB built-in memory, combined with commercial and 32GB SDHC cards can record about 29 hours total in 1080p/24 (Each EP recording mode)
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1/2.33 CCD with large-scale response, a newly developed optical lens help zoom in a compact size. Place the effective pieces of aspherical lenses, the aberration control, to every corner of the screen to provide a sense of high-resolution images.
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About maximum continuous shooting at full charge 2 hours, 25 minutes long.
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Inputs:
USB (Mini), HDMI output (Mini, CEC supported), component output, AV output (3.5mm mini plug), external microphone input, headphone output, DC input.
~Credit to the JVC press release read link above.
More detailed specs : http://bit.ly/gzhm400
According to the full specs it is a CMOS sensor.
Eugh!
Wobble on fast panning shots.
No thanks.
Other Victor cameras have multi language support. could you please tell whether the language can be changed or not in this particular model? Also is there a digital zooming function in this camera?