informer wrote:
"LHW" wrote in message
m...

I have been looking for a new camcorder; I quite like the sony HC90
which strongly features 'true widescreen' as its major selling feature
(to me), but I have since found out that the new 3ccd panasonic
cameras may be cheaper. My question is simple (!) Do the new 3ccd
panasonic cameras offer a real increase in quality over single ccd,
and if so what is the real problem with not having true widescreen.


Read in one of the reviews of the camera that it has poor low light
performance which was put down to the Panasonic having 3 chips.



I don't know that having 3 chips would cause it to function worse in low
light. That's more likely to be down to bad design, or a bad choice for
the 3 chips.

Personally I wouldn't go for a Panasonic camera. Sony or Ikegami for
Broadcast works, Sony or JVC for Semi-Pro. The Canon XL range is nice to
but hugely overpriced.