White Paper 034 Addendum 3: Menu settings for Panasonic DVCProHD (AJ-HDC27A 720/59.94 Hz proscan)

Alan Roberts

Abstract

Assessment was made on a prototype model of the AJ-HDC27V, 720-lineprogressive variable frame-rate camera, and all menu items refer tothis camera only. This camera has 3 ccds, each of 1280x720 pixels. Itis a fixed-frame rate version of the AJ-HDC27V, and is almost identicalto it.

The camera is smaller and lighter than the familiar Beta camcorder andis useful mostly for portable, single-camera work. It has many internalmenus for setting the performance, such that it can then be usedwithout external controls. It is not well suited to multi-cameraoperation.

In this setup, gamma correction and knee are adjusted to capture about2.5 stops of overload, and 1 stop of underexposure, to mimic filmperformance.

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