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SUPERB IMAGE AND
SOUND QUALITY
Breathtakingly beautiful moving and
still pictures
O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabiliser)
Clear, beautiful images - even with high-power zooming
MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabiliser)
High-precision shooting with hand-shake correction,
even for 4.0-megapixel still pictures
Cine-Like Mode
This mode boosts the luminance in darker scenes and lowers it in brighter scenes.
This gives moving pictures the same kind of look and tone you see in movies.
This system links four electret condenser microphones (ECM) with the lens
operation, so their directionality and sensitivity are adjusted as you zoom.
Directionality adjusts from Wide to Zoom, so voices and sounds correspond with
the images. Wide mode emphasises stereo ambience, while Zoom mode narrows
the range to capture monaural-like sound from distant subjects.
A digital circuit automatically detects the wind velocity and adjusts the directivity
of the microphones accordingly. This dramatically reduces both wind noise and
sound degradation in the low-frequency range.
With this new mode you can shoot pictures that look beautiful even on a large,
wide-screen TV. It uses the same aspect ratio as wide-screen TVs right from the
recording stage, and it minimises the vertical zoom ratio to boost vertical
resolution. As a result, the huge amount of signal information captured by the
3CCD camera system fills the entire viewing area of a large, wide-screen TV. And
there's virtually no picture quality degradation, so the viewing is extraordinary.
This function detects skin tones and softens the focus in those areas, making
complexions look more attractive. Wrinkles and lines seem to disappear.
The MEGA O.I.S. system takes O.I.S. technology a step further by adding a sensitivity
selector. This allows MEGA O.I.S. to provide about twice
*1
as much hand-shake
correction when shooting still pictures as conventional O.I.S. provides with moving
pictures. MEGA O.I.S. can even correct the hand-shake when you're shooting still
pictures with the zoom or macro function, or when shooting in dim lighting. The
GS400 also boasts a number of other functions that improve shooting ease, such as
one-touch Auto Focus
*2
, which activates the auto focus even during manual shooting.
*1 Measurements by Panasonic *2 Available in Card Slow Shutter mode only
Theatre movies are generally filmed at 24 frames per second (fps). The GS400's
Pro-Cinema mode shoots at a close 25 fps to give you movie-like motion.
Switching to Pro-Cinema mode also activates the High-Picture-Quality Wide mode
and Cine-Like mode (with special gamma curves). These help unleash the full
potential of the 3CCD camera system and let you
capture images that preserve the entire angle of
view on a wide-screen TV. This mode turns on the
Wind NR and Bass Enhancer functions, too, to
suppress wind noise and produce more dynamic
low-frequency sounds.
Professional Functions
A host of creative tools to enjoy
High-Picture-Quality Wide Mode (16:9)
Beautiful images, wide-screen impact
A host of professional-level functions let you capture shots
precisely as you see them in your mind’s eye. Also offering
a number of manual functions, the GS400 is an ideal tool
for capturing artistic, expressive images.
•Zebra-Pattern Over-Exposure Warning
•Picture Adjustment •Microphone Sensitivity Level
•Shooting Data Rec. •Bass Enhancer •Colour Bar
Tele Macro Mode
Take close-ups from a distance of 50 cm
Using the zoom at full magnification, you can shoot macro
close-ups while maintaining a distance of 50 cm from your
subject. This lets you capture extreme close-ups
equivalent to wide macro shots at 4 cm, while keeping the
background in soft focus.
Soft Skin Detail
Smoother looking skin
Compact 4-ECM Zoom Microphone
Creates movie-like sound field effects
Pro-Cinema Mode
Moving pictures with a rich, movie-like tone and true-to-life ambience
Smart Wind Cut
Captures a beautiful sound, even on windy days
2-Step Photoshot Button
Pressing the Photoshot button halfway activates auto focus and then locks in the
resulting focus.* It switches on the O.I.S. at the same time, letting you take the kind of
clear, beautiful still pictures you get with a digital still camera, with no focus blurring
or hand-shake. *Auto focus mode
.
Zebra-Pattern
Over-Exposure Warning
MEGA O.I.S. OFFMEGA O.I.S. ON
Flash ON
OFFON
O.I.S./MEGA O.I.S. Lenses
The lenses move
up/down or left/right and
bends the incoming light
to correct hand-shake.
The O.I.S. helps assuring clear, beautiful pictures by
compensating for any hand-shake that occurs as you
shoot. Gyrosensors detect the amount and direction of
hand-shake and a linear motor adjusts the lenses as
needed to compensate. All of this happens in an instant.
The GS400's system is optical. While electronic systems
correct the hand-shake in the CCD image itself, the
GS400's optical process takes place before the CCD
imaging stage – so there's virtually no effect on image
resolution or viewing angle. And because it's a real-time
process that operates 480 times per second, there are no
after-images or any of the unnatural feeling you get with
internal complementing methods. Instead, you get clear,
sharp images even in situations where hand-shake is
typically a problem, such as when taking wide-angle shots
or using the zoom at high magnification levels.