Are we being "HAD?"
 

If Panasonic buys its CCDs from Sony, wouldn't Pana's chips be HAD?

if DX10's CCDs are HAD... GS400 should be too...
are DX10's CCDs HAD?

JVC buys their CCD's from Sony. Panasonic makes their own. Kinda makes Matsushita a bit two-faced, eh?

I didn't know that. That's strange. So do I have a 1/3" HAD CCD in my JVC GR-DVL9500U cams? Maybe that's why they're good in low light? Hmmm, I wonder. The DVL9500 CCD is 380K with 360K video effective pixels---same as the VX2000's CCD's? Hmmm. :-))

damn I feel stupid....
I just checked that the DX10 has a total number of pixels the expected number of pix of each CCD of the GS400 =/
so It's different CCD for GS400

You mean the PDX10 correct?

yep =/
is there another Sony camcorder with 1/4.7" CCD?

There are several of 3CCD and single CCD.

TRV38, TRV950, TRV39, PC105...

well.. the CCD we are looking for is from a 3CCD cam, 1/4.7", and about 1megapix in size... =/
unless Pana is making again it's own CCDs =/

That would only be the TRV950 and PDX10 with 3CCD and 1070k pixels per each of their three 1/4.7" CCDs.

My bet is still on 1/6" CCDs for the GS400 but I'd like to be proven wrong.

so.. some hope shines trough again... =)
thats what I thought at first... that PDX10 had 3x1,070,000
but then some SONY page was saying "1070000" -TOTAL
... as you said they are each 1Mega (just saw it in another Sony page too).. now I feel stupid for feeling stupid before :)

It would be nice to have 1/4.7 HAD CCDs. =)

Tommy, all signs show that the new CCD will have more photosensors... more pixels... I REALY hope that it won't be 1/6"
since that means smaller photosensors leading to worse Lux sensitivity than ever before..
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<<<-- Originally posted by George Beck :

.. I REALY hope that it won't be 1/6"since that means smaller photosensors leading to worse Lux sensitivity than ever before..

The 3D noise reduction process of the Crystal Engine should compensate for that..somehow..:-)

and with the wider front lens element?

=) I think if you make them any smaller they wll be too small for a photon to sneak-in ;-)

when do you think the official specs will be available?

Full specs haven't yet been released. I'm still waiting as well. Summer's almost at our doorstep. I wonder what's taking Panasonical so long. (Give it up, please.)