AG-AF100 Professional Micro 4/3 HD Camcorder

I sold my $25,000 pro video camera and bought this with extra lenses, matte box, slider, lights, even a Steadicam, etc. A great move. I've had this for about five months now. Shot docs, commercials, small features. It's much smaller size makes it far easier to travel with, and it's great depth of field gives you lots of creative options. Great bang for the buck.

I have bought this video camera three days after it was available in the market, though it took me sometime to receive it. It has excellent futures, 2x XLR inputs for professional stereo sound. Very good in low light conditions and it doesn't have the antialiasing problems that DSLR's got. I also owe a Canon 5D but if you are more into filming than photography it is thumbs up from me!

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This Panasonic camera is a real breakthrough. I used to work for Sony in Japan, who are the other leaders in professional video cameras, but I really don't think they can compete with the AF100 on price, or specifications.

I would advise potential customers to be careful where they buy this camera. I have never felt ripped-off by Amazon, even if a few other companies can equal or better the price. If I want to get this review published, it seems I have to be careful about how I refer to competitors. A New York company that considers itself to offer the best price photo equipment (put in capital letters and you'll know who I'm talking about) offers this camera for a few hundred dollars less. Be warned. Unless you are very strong-willed you will be talked into buying hundreds of unspecified extra dollars and receive an un-itemized receipt, if you specifically ask for it. The advertised camera price does not appear anywhere on the invoice. Not like Amazon, unfortunately. As I said, I have never had a bad buying experience with Amazon. Beware of shady cut-price dealers, unusually common in New York in my experience. When I actually named that company and listed what they did to me, Amazon blocked my write-up. So read between the lines.

BTW it's a fabulous camera and worth every penny that Amazon charges.

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I'm old school, I'm all about film. Real film! However, I had to make the jump into digital video. I've played around with various cameras, but never was comfortable. I love the image and ease of shooting. Downloading footage is simple and easy despite the warnings for FCP users like myself. Besides, I'm not throwing down $90K for an Arri Alex so this camera is perfect for my needs of short films and a features. The one thing that one must be aware of is that the sensor size doubles the focal length of whatever lens you use, i.e. 45-200mm lens becomes a 90-400 mm lens. I haven't seen it projected on a wide screen yet, but that is my next test. Enjoy!

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I am shooting feature doc and bought this camera for shooting it. I also own a canon 7D and have had MANY issues with the 7D (aliasing!!! and generally a lack of film friendly functions). The AF100 has all the usual camera functions anyone who used the HVX is used to but the image is far superior. Out of the box the image was quite noisy even at low ISO's but with a bit of research and tweeking of the menus (and doing a few black balances) the image is now very crisp and not noisy anymore. I recommend this camera!

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