Panasonic PV-GS320 3CCD MiniDV Camcorder Review

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So my name is Angela and what I have here today is the Panasonic PV-GS320. This is a 3 CCD mini DV camcorder and I just recently bought it and so let's start with the pro and the cons. First the pros it got rally good picture quality and of course like very clear and crisp and very sharp looking images and it's nice and compact and small easy to hold easy to maneuver and stuff. It's got a let's see it's got a pretty decent LCD screen here and this is the only 3CCD mini camcorder that Panasonic ___ and it's about 500 dollars that's the average price but I purchase this when I best buy for 600 bucks with all the tax and that is the tax. And it's pretty ___ camera it's pretty cheap for 3CCD camcorder so those are basically all the pros. And then the cons well bad things about this camcorder is that sound wise you can't add an external mic you can't put a microphone and there's no place for headphone so you can't hear how the sound's gonna come out once you've recorded. So if you recorded it on a windy day but you sound also it's gonna be pretty difficult to see whether it's gonna turn out okay so that's the bad thing about this camcorder I mean you bought it just for so I can use for the visual part of video part of video production but so that's one of the bad things. And then another bad thing about this camcorder is here's where you put the battery and the battery is about this big fits right in there. Sometimes little difficult to put in but that's where the battery goes but that's not just for the battery. Bad thing about the battery going there is the placement of the ports when you're playing it into your computer. So there is the DV port where you plug into import video for camcorder and then onto computer and then there's the plug for just the pictures coz it also has a 3.1 mega pixel camera on it and it says it right there. The very bad thing about that is when you are plugging in to upload stuff from your camcorder onto your computer you don't have power source so you have to plug in the charger here and then this is the plug right here and a wire connects from here to this part of your camcorder and it's kind of a hassle coz most camcorders the plugs are normally on the side like right here and so you can battery in if you don't have your battery with you or what not and it's not terrible but it's inconvenient. And then the placement of the SD card if you wanna take pictures or something like that but you have your camera on a tripod you have to take off the little tripod piece which goes right there and then you need to slide it back in and then put the tripod piece back in again it's not terrible but it's inconvenient. The worst thing I think about this camera is the no headphone jacks because you wont be able to tell how your sound will come out before you record it or even after you the only time you can tell how the sound would be when you're on location or wherever you are is if you record and then play bit back and then you just turn the volume and it will play the sound but it's not as good as it could be. If there was a headphone jack this camera would be much better. But then again it comes at a very cheap price the cheapest price I've found on line lately is 385 dollars but then again I paid for 600 dollars for this. So if you go shopping around you can find a really cheap prize. So this is a good camera for amateur filmmakers who are just starting out brand new. If you're like intermediate I would suggest something little higher than this but if it fits your price range if can't go more than a thousand dollars then I would recommend this camera to beginning filmmakers so yeah and that's just I would recommend this camera to filmmakers who are do more visual projects and anything that has to do with sounds and if you are doing documentary where you need interviews and stuff I would recommend to get a better camera than this but for visuals this is a very very good camera so that's it.