Today @ PC World Blog - Three New Three-CCD Camcorders

Today @ PC World - Three New Three-CCD Camcorders: "Try as I might, I couldn’t find any consumer-level high-definition camcorders on the CES show floor (vendors say that’s “next year’s story”). This year’s “story,” if you ask Panasonic, seems to be compact consumer camcorders with three CCDs. The company introduced three new camcorders with three imagers, and they’re surprisingly inexpensive, and surprisingly small.

The least-expensive three-CCD model, the PV-GS65, costs $599, and takes 1.2-megapixel stills, too. The PV-GS150 costs $699; it adds a Leica lens, 2.3-megapixel stills, USB 2.0 transfers to your computer (for the stills; the camcorder still uses FireWire for video transfers). The PV-GS250 (below) costs $999; it takes 3.1-megapixel stills and adds optical image stabilization (the less expensive models use digital stabilization). The PV-GS400, an older model, is still available; it takes 4-megapixel stills and costs $1400. "



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