Hitachi DZ-GX3200A

The Hitachi DZ-GX3200A offers 2.12-megapixel resolution, with a maximum resolution of 1600 x 1200. The camcorder also supports the following four formats: DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM. As well, there’s support for SD memory cards.

Other features include:

* Video-to-Photo Frame Grab tool
* Sleep/Restart feature
* record in either 4:3 standard aspect ratio or in 16:9 widescreen ratio

Hitachi DZ-GX3200A Reviews

CNET has a review of the Hitachi DZ-GX3200A and writes, “The DZ-GX3200A’s video quality is about what you’d expect from a midprice MiniDV camcorder. At low compression, video was sharp with some motion artifacts and edge crawl, along with a bit of blooming. At higher compression levels, banding showed up more often in areas with significant gradations in brightness. … Still images were impressive for a camcorder, though the auto white balance produced extremely warm results with our lab’s tungsten lights. The tungsten white-balance mode worked better, but we had to set white balance manually to get truly neutral results.”

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