Panasonic NV-GS400 Camcorder User Manual


 
The joystick makes the camera much easier to use,
letting you control all basic operations with one
hand. As you shoot, just watch the image in the
monitor and follow the instruction guide. You can
handle a number of operations quickly and easily,
without even taking your eye off the subject.
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CREATIVITY
This function detects skin tones and softens the focus in those areas, making complexions look
more attractive. Wrinkles and lines seem to disappear.
Just press a button and you're ready to shoot macro close-ups of
subjects a mere 40 cm from the lens. The subject will have a clear,
sharp focus, while the background focus is softened.
OFFON
Give your subjects smoother looking skin
Soft Skin Detail
Take close-ups from a distance of 40 cm*
Tele Macro Mode
HIGH-QUALITY PICTURES
Positioned at the front of the lens barrel, the manual
focus ring has a non-slip, sure-grip surface for easy
operation and quick response when a photo opportunity
pops up. It ensures professional-style operation and
enhances creativity.
Adjust the focus manually if you prefer
Manual Focus Ring
Clear, beautiful images, even with high-power
zooming — O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabiliser)
High-precision shooting with hand-shake correction,
even for megapixel still pictures — MEGA O.I.S.
GS150
GS250
Slant Grip
Built-in Flash
Intelligent AI LCD
Hot Shoe
Free-Style Remote Controller with Mic
One-Touch Free-Style Grip Belt
1.7 sec Quick Start
10x Optical Zoom
Easy-to-understand icons indicate the modes for both tape and card
recording and playback. Just rotate the dial with your fingertip to select the
icon that corresponds to the mode you want.
Dial design of GS250/GS150/GS75/GS35/GS25
Easy-to-use universal design:
Direct Mode Dial
OPERATING EASE
Check the image in the monitor as you shoot:
One-Touch Navigation & Joystick Control
GS75
GS250 GS150 GS75
GS400 GS250 GS150
GS400 GS250 GS150
GS400 GS250 GS150
GS400 GS250 GS150
GS75GS400 GS250 GS150
GS75GS400 GS250 GS150
GS75GS250 GS150
GS75GS400 GS250 GS150
GS75GS250 GS150
GS75GS400 GS250 GS150
Simultaneous Motion Video & Still Picture Recording (VGA)
Colour Night View
Scene Mode
The lens cover is built right into the
camera body; simply turn the lens ring
to open or close it. You're ready to
shoot in an instant and you never have
to worry about losing the lens cover.
Open and close easily
Built-in Lens Cover
Tape Recording
Mode
Tape Playback
Mode
Card
Recording Mode
Picture Playback
Mode
PC
Mode
Easy to see — even outdoors
Power LCD
GS250
GS75
GS400
GS150
GS250
GS75
GS400
GS150
GS250
GS75
GS400
GS150
GS250
GS150
GS75
GS400
GS250
GS400
GS250
Simply press the Power LCD button and the LCD becomes brighter, making it
easier to see outdoors or in other bright locations. Also, a new scanning
technology allows the LCD to show diagonal lines more sharply.
OFF (Daylight Condition)
ON (180% Brightness)
Power LCD Button
The menu can be displayed in any of five languages, including English,
Russian and Arabic. You can switch it to view all menus in the language
you prefer for easy, comfortable operation.
(English/Russian/Arabic/Persian/Chinese)
Multilingual Menu
Press the centre of the joystick to
display icons on the screen.
Control buttons are
centrally arranged
for easier use.
Joystick
Operation Icon Examples
Tele Macro Mode
Soft Skin Detail
FadeIN/FadeOUT
Backlight Compensation
GS250
(without
Mic)
GS400: 12x Optical Zoom
GS400: 1.2-Megapixel
MEGA O.I.S. OFFMEGA O.I.S. ON Flash ON
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 assure 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. While electronic systems correct the hand-
shake in the CCD image itself, the 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 500 times* per second, there are no afterimages or any of the unnatural
feeling you get with internal complementing methods. Instead, you get clear, sharp images even
when taking wide-angle shots or using the zoom at high magnification levels.
*GS400: 480 times
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
*
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
for hand-shake when shooting still pictures with the zoom or macro function, or when shooting
in dim lighting.
*Measurements by
Panasonic
GS400: GN6 GS250: GN5.5 GS150: GN4
GS250GS400
GS75
GS150
GS400
*GS400: 50 cm