Superb Mobility For Low-Angle Shots And Interviews; Manual Focus And Aperture Control; Focus Assist And Other Functions; Simplified Waveform And Vectorscope Display - Panasonic P2HD AG-HPX171 Manual

Superb Mobility for Low-Angle Shots and Interviews

• The 1.9 kilograms weight (lowest in the class) and comfortable
weight balance provide highly stable handheld shooting, while the
magnesium alloy diecast chassis boosts ruggedness and
durability.
• The upper part of the handle
grip contains both the Rec Start/
Stop button and a lens zoom
speed control (three speed).
This design assures easy
shooting even at low angles.
• The new LCD monitor mirror
mode is convenient when shooting interviews.
13x Cam-Driven Optical Zoom and 10x Digital Zoom
The cam-driven (mechanical) manual zoom ring provides the
same fast, precise zooming and feeling as cameras with
interchangeable lenses. The servo-driven zoom also allows slow
zooming. The AG-HPX171 is equipped with a digital zoom* that
instantly magnifies the image by any of three fixed values — 2x,
5x or 10x. Use it together with the 13x optical zoom lens,
and you get super-telephoto magnification equivalent to a 130x
zoom, without the drop in light intensity that happens when using
a lens extender.
* The image quality decreases as the digital zoom magnification increases.
Standard 13x optical zoom 13x optical zoom x
10x digital zoom (130x)

Manual Focus and Aperture Control

The manual focus ring, which gives you a level of operating ease
that approaches an interchangeable lens, can be used to control
the aperture too, by switching the Ring (Focus/Iris) selector. You
can also add backlight correction or spotlight correction to the
auto aperture function.

Focus Assist and Other Functions

A focus assist function with HD
Center Zoom Histogram
compatibility has also been
added to the AG-HPX171.
This is in addition to a center
zoom function that enlarges the
center of the frame, and a
histogram display. You can
select from three display modes:
center zoom, histogram, or
Focus Bar
combined center zoom and
Focus assist ON (BOTH Mode)
histogram. A focus bar display
further helps to speed up focusing by indicating the level of focus
by the length of the bar. An Electric View Finder (EVF) DTL (detail)
button has also been added that lets you emphasize the outline of
the image in either the EVF or the LCD monitor for easier viewing.

Simplified Waveform and Vectorscope Display

The AG-HPX171 has waveform and vectorscope display functions
as well. A single touch of the Waveform Monitoring (WFM) key
displays the waveform and vectors of the captured video signal on
the LCD monitor.
Excellent Operation,
Versatile Assist Functions,
and System Functions for
Broadcasting Work
Waveform Monitoring (WFM) VECTOR (Vector scope)