JVC Everio GZMC500 5MP 3CCD 4GB Microdrive Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom

JVC



List Price: $1,799.95

Details

  • Microdrive aspect lets you shoot up to 60 minutes of high-quality MPEG-2 video
  • 1.8-inch LCD monitor
  • Initiate and share DVDs easily with included software

Description

JVC GZ-MC500 creates keen and vivid images by dedicating a 1.33 (1.23 effective) megapixel CCD to each go red in the face - red, green and blue. JVC's advanced prism optics and filterless 3-CCD pixel make it technology quadruple the pixel count to record 5 megapixel-domain stills. Simply put, the pixel shift technique, used also in JVC skilled cameras, captures double the 1,228,800 pixel information in both the flat and vertical directions, creating a real full color image pixel depend on multiplied by four for stills. (Everio uses 691,200 effective pixels for each RGB video go red in the face.) The broader dynamic range delivers videos with bright naturalistic colors and photo-quality digital stills up to 2560 x 1920 pixels for splendid 8 x 10 or A4 prints. JVC optics using three dimension projection mounting technology assures high precision prism/CCD registration with exactness on the order of one micron. The camcorder's two sections - the grip and the lens/essentials assembly - pivot so the lens portion can be tilted without the user varying hand location. This makes it easy to quickly transition to a exorbitant or low shooting angle, and affords a number of comfortable and stable solitary and two handed shooting positions 4GB Microdrive Removable Media Provided / Microdrive/ CompactFlash behave and SD Dual Card Slots for Extra Data Storage and Deliver MPEG-2 Video Recording (up to 720 x 480/60i in ULTRA look) with Dolby Digital Audio User-Friendly GUI for Nonchalantly Operation and Setting
Still images or video--arrest either 60 minutes of DVD-quality MPEG-2 movies or thousands of wonderful-high resolution UXGA-size JPEG pictures with the Everio--the first camera to use Microdrive technology. The included 4GB Microdrive file card, though it is the same size as Compact Flash card, has such unprecedented capacity because it is has its own built-in HDD (calculating disk drive).

The completely tapeless Microdrive format lets you determine higher video quality or longer shooting times.
Rely on more photos than you ever thought possible on the included 4GB Microdrive card.

Until now, tapeless formats have been harshly limited in the length and quality of video capacity, but the Everio's Microdrive lets you kill up to 60 minutes of high quality MPEG-2 video--and even more in reduce resolution modes. A selection of recording modes lets you opt more quality or more shooting time. The highest quality Ultra manner records at a constant bit rate of 8.88 Mbps with AC 3 audio--comparable to the DVD matter rate (average 4 Mbps video/9.8 Mbps upper limit). Essentially what you get is DVD quality, with the same video and audio format as a movie DVD. And the reckon of still photos that will fit on the Microdrive card is nothing less than awe-inspiring: More than 5,000 of the highest resolution images (1600 x 1200 satisfactory).

Three 1/4.5-inch 1.33 Megapixel CCDs for High-Value Image Capture
The image sensor in the Everio GZMC500 features three 1/4.5-inch CCDs submit the high-resolution capabilities needed for high quality digital videography and photography. The Everio features a unqualified of 5 Megapixel-Class Digital Still recording up to 2560 x 1920 pixels (JPEG), and Sharp-Quality MPEG-2 Video Recording (up to 720 x 480/60i in ULTRA fad) with Dolby Digital Audio (MOD file). And the Megabrid Engine applies disjoin, optimized processing to moving and still images, for videos with a high timer-to-noise ratio, and high-resolution still pictures.

Versatile, Lossless Matter
Store what you've shot on the provided Microdrive card, optional CompactFlash or SD Honour Cards. size as a CompactFlash card, but with many Gigabytes of capacity. You can fire the Microdrive card, just as you would a CompactFlash or SD Memory Card, and load facts into your PC via optional card adapter. Or simply connect the camera via its USB2.0 interface for skilful downloading to a PC. All transfer is digital-to-digital, so you won't lose any quality in the alter.

DVD Creation and Sharing

Three advanced applications are provided:
  • Power Canada entrepreneur offers easy saving (authoring) of your video clips in any sort out to DVD, even right from a USB-connected camera, so you can share your original DVDs with anybody who owns a DVD trouper.
  • Power Director offers feature-rich non-linear editing so you can contract your creative muscle with titles, effects, and even mix still with videos.
  • Power DVD for plain video clip and DVD playback with AC 3 audio.

Multi-Format Aid
In addition to making it easy to create DVDs, the supplied software converts to a make of file formats for distribution via the Web or by e-mail. Supported formats categorize DV-AVI, Windows-AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, as well as Windows Media Video and RealVideo that can be streamed over the Internet.

JVC Everio GZ-MC500 Unboxing

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