Superb Image and Sound Quality

SUPERB IMAGE AND SOUND QUALITY

Breathtakingly beautiful moving and still pictures

Clear, beautiful images - even with high-power zooming

O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabiliser)

A host of creative tools to enjoy

Professional Functions

The O.I.S. helps assuring clear, beautiful pictures by compensating for any hand-shake that occurs as you shoot. Gyrosensors detect the amount and direction of hand-shake and a linear motor adjusts the lenses as needed to compensate. All of this happens in an instant. The GS400's system is optical. While electronic systems correct the hand-shake in the CCD image itself, the GS400's optical process takes place before the CCD imaging stage – so there's virtually no effect on image resolution or viewing angle. And because it's a real-time process that operates 480 times per second, there are no after-images or any of the unnatural feeling you get with internal complementing methods. Instead, you get clear, sharp images even in situations where hand-shake is typically a problem, such as when taking wide-angle shots or using the zoom at high magnification levels.

O.I.S./MEGA O.I.S. Lenses

The lenses move up/down or left/right and bends the incoming light to correct hand-shake.

	A host of professional-level functions let you capture shots
	precisely as you see them in your mind’s eye. Also offering
	a number of manual functions, the GS400 is an ideal tool
	for capturing artistic, expressive images.
	•Zebra-Pattern Over-Exposure Warning
	•Picture Adjustment •Microphone Sensitivity Level	Zebra-Pattern
	•Shooting Data Rec. •Bass Enhancer •Colour Bar	Zebra-Pattern
	•Shooting Data Rec. •Bass Enhancer •Colour Bar	Over-Exposure Warning

Beautiful images, wide-screen impact

High-Picture-Quality Wide Mode (16:9)

With this new mode you can shoot pictures that look beautiful even on a large, wide-screen TV. It uses the same aspect ratio as wide-screen TVs right from the recording stage, and it minimises the vertical zoom ratio to boost vertical resolution. As a result, the huge amount of signal information captured by the 3CCD camera system fills the entire viewing area of a large, wide-screen TV. And there's virtually no picture quality degradation, so the viewing is extraordinary.

High-precision shooting with hand-shake correction, even for 4.0-megapixel still pictures

MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabiliser)

The MEGA O.I.S. system takes O.I.S. technology a step further by adding a sensitivity selector. This allows MEGA O.I.S. to provide about twice*1 as much hand-shake correction when shooting still pictures as conventional O.I.S. provides with moving pictures. MEGA O.I.S. can even correct the hand-shake when you're shooting still pictures with the zoom or macro function, or when shooting in dim lighting. The GS400 also boasts a number of other functions that improve shooting ease, such as one-touch Auto Focus*2, which activates the auto focus even during manual shooting.

*1 Measurements by Panasonic *2 Available in Card Slow Shutter mode only

2-Step Photoshot Button

Pressing the Photoshot button halfway activates auto focus and then locks in the resulting focus.* It switches on the O.I.S. at the same time, letting you take the kind of clear, beautiful still pictures you get with a digital still camera, with no focus blurring

or hand-shake.

*Auto focus mode.

MEGA O.I.S. ON

Flash ON

MEGA O.I.S. OFF

Moving pictures with a rich, movie-like tone and true-to-life ambience

Pro-Cinema Mode

Theatre movies are generally filmed at 24 frames per second (fps). The GS400's Pro-Cinema mode shoots at a close 25 fps to give you movie-like motion. Switching to Pro-Cinema mode also activates the High-Picture-Quality Wide mode and Cine-Like mode (with special gamma curves). These help unleash the full potential of the 3CCD camera system and let you

capture images that preserve the entire angle of view on a wide-screen TV. This mode turns on the Wind NR and Bass Enhancer functions, too, to suppress wind noise and produce more dynamic low-frequency sounds.

Cine-Like Mode

This mode boosts the luminance in darker scenes and lowers it in brighter scenes. This gives moving pictures the same kind of look and tone you see in movies.

Take close-ups from a distance of 50 cm

Tele Macro Mode

Using the zoom at full magnification, you can shoot macro close-ups while maintaining a distance of 50 cm from your subject. This lets you capture extreme close-ups equivalent to wide macro shots at 4 cm, while keeping the background in soft focus.

Smoother looking skin

Soft Skin Detail

This function detects skin tones and softens the focus in those areas, making complexions look more attractive. Wrinkles and lines seem to disappear.

ONOFF

Creates movie-like sound field effects

Compact 4-ECM Zoom Microphone

This system links four electret condenser microphones (ECM) with the lens operation, so their directionality and sensitivity are adjusted as you zoom. Directionality adjusts from Wide to Zoom, so voices and sounds correspond with the images. Wide mode emphasises stereo ambience, while Zoom mode narrows the range to capture monaural-like sound from distant subjects.

Captures a beautiful sound, even on windy days

Smart Wind Cut

A digital circuit automatically detects the wind velocity and adjusts the directivity of the microphones accordingly. This dramatically reduces both wind noise and sound degradation in the low-frequency range.