Getting the camera

Today in our lesson we were handed the new camera's that we will be using. It's called the JVC Everio GZ-HD40.Each group was asigned one of these. It's very hi-tech for our level so we had time to play around with it to learn how to use the camera and it's features. We then started to record various camera shots and angles as a test which I will upload in a later post. It has a large hard-drive so we can record lots of different cut's/scenes without having to worry about not having enough memory for leanghty recordings. It also records in HD so our production will be the same quality programs are broadcast at.

Here are the specifications of the camera :

Recording Format:
Hard Drive
Optical Zoom:
10x
HDD Size:
120 GB
Weight:
0.54 kg
Audio format:
5.1 Surround Sound
Optical Zoom:
10x
Digital Zoom:
200x
Lens Focal Length:
4.5 - 45 mm
Filter Diameter:
43 mm