In the last issue we looked at the JVC GY-DV500 camcorder from the perspective of two other quite different cameras.
Cameramen are notorious for their personal foibles, one man's meat etc.
T here are several other reviews currently in print of these cameras, and I would particularly recommend readers to look at the one in the May edition of our US cousin, DV Magazine . These will give the features and basic performance descriptions, but I would like to concentrate first on the actual image quality. Sony DSR-300 B oth cameras claim 800 lines resolution, and a sensitivity of f11 at 2000lux. The sensors principally determine the basic imaging performance, and both cameras use 3 of half-inch CCD chips, apparently both made by Sony and with the same pixel count of 752x582. This gives a useful amount of oversampling to derive the DV line sample rate of 720.