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Panasonic PV-GS39

Panasonic PV-GS39
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alaScore 80

74 reviews

Nov, 2024

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 74 reviews of Panasonic PV-GS39. The average rating for this product is 3.6/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other Camcorders for all reviews. Comments about the design and image quality are overall positive. The usability and portability also get good feedback.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Camcorders the Panasonic PV-GS39 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 80/100 = Very good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Panasonic PV-GS39

 

alaTest has collected and analyzed 58 user reviews of Panasonic PV-GS39 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.8/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other Camcorders on Amazon.com. People are impressed by the design and image quality. The usability and portability also get good feedback.

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84% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Nov, 2024

Expert review by : Denny Atkin (cnet.com)

Panasonic PV-GS39 review: Panasonic PV-GS39

 

Panasonic PV-GS39

Superb zoom reach; excellent battery life; simple controls; true wide-screen recording.

Poor still quality; nonintuitive icons for manual settings; grainy footage.

With its extreme zoom range and its low price, the Panasonic PV-GS39 is a good choice for shooting distant subjects.

May, 2006
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Expert review by : Denny Atkin (cnet.com.au)

Panasonic PV-GS39

 

Superb zoom reach; excellent battery life; simple controls; true wide-screen recording.

Poor still quality; nonintuitive icons for manual settings; grainy footage.

With its extreme zoom range and its low price, the Panasonic PV-GS39 is a good choice for shooting distant subjects.

May, 2006
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Expert review by : Easy Camcorder (easycamcorders.com)

Expert Review

 

With an MSRP of $349, the Panasonic PV-GS39 provides an immense number of manual controls without breaking the bank. This 1 chip camcorder allows control over focus, exposure, white balance, gain, and aperture – the gamut of controls Panasonic always...

Joystick navigation of the linear and well structured menu, -Native 16:9 chip for true widescreen, -Manual controls and the extensive number of settings available in each option, -Side loading tape compartment will allow users to switch tapes without...

Manual controls are hard to navigate due to the need to press the joystick each time a new step was engaged within a manual control setting, -Zoom slider snaps too quickly and doesn't provide smooth transitions or slower speeds, -No Microphone Port,...

Feb, 2006
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Expert review by : James Murray (camcorderinfo.com)

Panasonic PV-GS39 Camcorder Review

 

The new Panasonic PV-GS39 (MSRP $349), which was unveiled at CES less than a month ago, aims to uphold the high standards that Panasonic set forth in their 2005 PV-GS series. As a 1 chip camcorder standing smack in the middle between the new GS19 and...

As our first full review of 2006, we're glad to see that the feature-heavy traditions of lower-end MiniDV Panasonics have not been lost. Of course, we always like to see improvements, but the PV-GS35 was a big favorite of ours last year, as was the...

Jan, 2006
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Expert review by : James Murray (reviewed.com)

Panasonic PV-GS39

 

The PV-GS39 offers a native 16:9 1/6" CCD with a 800K gross pixel count (290K effective pixels in 4:3 and 380K effective pixels in 16:9). The F values for the iris are the same as the PV-GS31, which this is replacing– f/1.8 to 3.9 – but the focal...

Jan, 2006
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Awesome Camera, Buy this

 

get the panasonic DVtapes, there only like 12.99, normally at a store you can get 2 minidv tapes for that much, and I have a 1gb memory card, and the most ive ever used was 90mb, and that was like 400 pictures or somthing, so like a 128 stick is...

Very good quality videos, you can take like 10 pictures supa-fast, in the mode called burst, its really cool for like whatever, the camera is really easy to use, while your reveiwing footage on the tape, you can take pictures of whatever frame is on...

Pictures arn't that great, and i dont think you can record video on an sd card. It seems liek the lcd screen is a little wobbly, buit i doubt it will break uinless i pull it off, and you cant adjust the eyepeaice angle, liek you cant move it up and...

Aug, 2006
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Consumer review (epinions.com)

My humble opinion

 

After reading many reviews of the gs (29 to 59) series, I was surprised to see such problems by the other epinions reviewers when connecting to Windows XP Home. I purchased a used gs39 one from EBAY a few days ago, and I needed to check out all the ...

Impressive zoom numbers, small, light, well made, convenient control, good manual override

Slightly grainy, sparkly video, microphone sensitive to camera handling, operator breathing

Jul, 2007
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Consumer review (radioshack.com)

This is a great ...

 

This is a great camcorder/camera. Can't beat the price i got it for and the features and all too easy, can't wait to take it with me on a summer vacation. So light to travel with. It's exactly what i was looking for. Thanks Radio Shack!

Apr, 2007
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Consumer review (epinions.com)

Don't buy

 

It's easy to use

everything that has to do with downloading and transferring images

Mar, 2007
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