"xray" <notreally@hotmail.invalid> wrote in message news:sciumv4j4hhgm046hqco52v73mc4un11aj@4ax.com...

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:57:57 -0400, "David Ruether"

> <rpn1@no-junk.cornell.edu> wrote:

> >> Panasonic sells a 3-CCD camcorder that lists for $1000 -- and sells for a

> >> couple hundred less -- the PV-GS70.

> >Trouble is, they do not appear to be very good...

> >Which is better - a good used camera, or a poor new one...? ;-)

> What makes you say that? References to reviews, please?

>

> Everything I have read about PV-GS70 sounds pretty good, although it

> might not have all the features of higher-end cameras and is not great

> in low-light. Is there something else I have missed?

These are really terrible in even "medium" light - and

the frame-grab examples I've seen at the Haru site

(http://www4.big.or.jp/~a_haru/index.html) of the

Panasonic "sub-DVX100" (the DVX100 is an excellent

camera) do not look better even in good light than a

good 1-chipper (or good used 3-chipper...). I've also

owned the expensive (at the time) 3-CCD EZ30U, which

I sold due to image-quality issues (newer good 1-chippers

had better pictures [and better controls]). BTW, in

general, "reviews", if attached to a magazine or

commercial website, will have little but praise for *any*

product reviewed, so a good review may have little

meaning (which is not to say that I cannot be wrong

about the GS-70, since I have not tried it...;-).