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4.0 stars
"Excellent value for your money, but lacks mic input."
Pros: Very good picture quality, plenty of options.
Cons: No microphone input or headphone output.
Summary: The PV-GS320 seems to be the same camera as the NV-GS320, which I bought.
If image quality is your primary concern, this is the camera for you. In low light, too, it remains very usable. The picture stabilizer works pretty good. But don't buy this camera to take still photographs.
Audio quality is decent, but the mic picks up sound from all around the camera. The lack of a microphone input is a severe shortcoming.
The rest of the feature set is excellent, and the backlight compensation and night shot are nice additions. Remember to buy a FireWire cable if you intend to use anything but the accompanying software.
On the usability front, this camera is decent, but not excellent. If you're afraid of buttons and menus I'd recommend looking elsewhere, but anyone with a little bit of technical experience will have no problem controlling this camera.
My full in-depth review of this camera can be found here:
http://typethinker.blogspot.com/2007/04/panasonic-nv-gs320-review.html
