JVC Everio GZ-MG50 1.33 MP 30 GB Hard Disk Drive Camcorder w/15x Optical Zoom

Review: I bought this to my broken Sony Digital8 camcorder and the same name “guy who sold me the Sony to replace 6 years ago advised me to buy the JVC, on a single criterion: the almost infinite disk storage. That was about the only demand that wurde.Zusammenfassung actually met: unlimited recording time, disappointing image quality and control for the price, painful cut. Not for the average user iMovie.Positive points: – The storage capacity: a dream. I thought that 7 hours of high quality video would hardly last two weeks of leave. Actually it took me months to fill them. Especially because, as with digital cameras, you will throw away all the bad takes. I decided to keep all of my previous good lasts until I really need the space, good. . . I still have my very best clips from five months in the camcorder, which means that I can always show them to family and friends on the spot, even if I did not have my computer or DVD copies means to me .- size, weight and shape : perfect. You can use these camcorders everywhere and without packaging looks serious decisions. It’s small, feels fairly robust. I added a wide-angle lens and the optional larger battery, the camera to be 50% thicker, but still manageable. The shape is great, at least for my hand size. I really can grab the camera properly in different situations of verticality and roughness. . . The microphones are not as good but I often asked, and cover it with my fingers .- Image stabilization: very good. By chance I shot a clip with my wide angle lens in the way that gave me a good solid reference to see how the animal is quickly and smoothly at correcting undesirable tremor .- combination of lightness: the USB2 connection is OK. I would prefer firewire, but here we are not dealing with video streams, but video files. BTW enable such transfer faster than real time. A FireWire connection on your camcorder as a hard drive would have been great. . . OK points: user interface, response time (even if it takes a long time to get ready), optics, battery life is (3 hours by Batt. – Actually, a first five hours). Negative points: – Image quality: Given the price, the picture quality disappointing. Honestly. The viewfinder is flattering, but the color saturation is indeed low, and video clips filmed on sunny days when they seem even more sad when I found out that after the shooting for a whole week in Yucatan. Clips shot on my digital camera (Canon IXUS 60) look better. There is also a lack of control over image quality .- Digital camera: simply forgotten. My cell phone has better pictures. I would advise you to buy a phone + 2Mpix and enjoy the advantage of sending your pictures and videos instantly to distant family and pals .- file transfer and processing: pretty awful with the originally supplied software. In copy marketing, MPEG2 files could appear as target format Nice, but we always have to edit our videos, and this is very painful, what could you say power users. You are in hours of conversion, unless you burn your RAW takes to write the risk of boring your Publikum.Ich did not want to “buy when you are that a Mac user.” This is NOT available in iMovie. I have both PCs and Macs, it also painful and disappointing, unless you buy a real video-editing Suite.Still, if you have a Mac and an Everio Get the wonderful MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5 free utility . It enables batch conversion of the Everio. MOD files into usable formats. You have to buy the MPEG2 component from Apple and change the first. MOD extensions. MPG before conversions. Time and storage space but it’s worth it, because the picture quality is better than that of the JVC-supplied software generiert.Neat thing: Leave your computer to HauseObwohl you can not use the camcorder as an external hard drive (it is read-only) can to the photos from the SD card to the hard drive, which means that with the Everio, you need to bring your computer wont to copy means a trip to only the images from your digital camera speichern.Fazit: Given the choice I will not buy this camcorder, especially for the under-par image quality, as I prepared to have done with the complications of converting and editing. But I would seriously miss the storage capacity. Rating: 5.2