I bought it - PV-GS150

I just realized that this is my third post in a row about camcorders. Seems like I am INTO camcorders now. It's a seasonal thing I guess. May be not. Just that when I make up my mind to buy something, that's all I think, see, read and write (only thing I write is this blog other than documents at my work) about. But this post is to say that I was not just preaching, if you bothered to read my previous post; I bought it. A Panasonic PV-GS150 3CCD camcorder. I bought it during Thanksgiving and I think I got a good deal. There might be people around who got better deals. But I am happy, with the deal and with what I bought.

Here are a couple of pictures of my own Panasonic PV-GS150:



I Left all the junk on my table so that you get an idea of its size.

The camcorder (Palmcoder? for Panasonics) came on UPS yesterday and lo, it was a snow day today in Seattle. Captured a lot of snowfall, not as great videos, but as a test to the new camcorder. It did very well. I even transferred those videos to my PC with the USB cable that comes in the box. The only complaint I have is the MotionDV Studio software that comes with it. It was a real disappointment.

If you have Windows XP or later OS, don't even bother to install this software. The Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP is an amazing piece of software, at least for tranferring videos from MiniDVs. The Windows Movie Maker lets you preview, control the connected camcorder (forward, rewind, pause...) and Start and Stop capture from the tape positions that you want to. Don't know the MAC Equivalent of this, but I bet there would be something as good or better on MAC.

That's it. Got to sleep now. It's past 12:00 midnight.