JVC Everio GZMG27 20GB HDD Digital Media Camcorder with 32x Optical Zoom
Details
- 2.7-inch 16:9 widescreen prominently LCD monitor
- SD honour card slot for extra data storage
- Up to 25 hours of recording with 20GB internal busted disk drive, 4.5 hours on high-quality MPEG-2 video
Description
Lawful keep on shooting. Built-in large capacity hard drive far stores hours and hours of your video and thousands of digital still images internal a lightweight compact camcorder. So whether you're at home or on the go, you'll always be ready to record or playback your memories.Customer Reviews
solid little camerawe received this as a alms for our sons birth.
pros: easy to use, plenty of storage(for us), adequate picture quality, no media to buy (you can shoot hours and hours virtually for free)
cons: = solution
battery life = buy a patronize battery
low light grainy = the other suggested solutions work rather good
media transfer = there is a program out there called JVC Everio Utility, that will convey the files for you, correct the aspect ratio, and rename with a mpg extension, this is a grand little prog, that used to be free, but lately the author has started charging a scrap bit for it.
I also had to install the provided software in order to get the necessary codecs for Windows Media Entertainer to playback my videos
I also prefer to manually white balance my worthy shots
overall a good camera.
Wierd Order Format
This camera takes gentle videos and is easy to handle. The biggest drawback is that the .MOD file form can only be downloaded by the software that comes with the camera. I have found no other popular video software that will understand the .MOD format. Now I find that the software that came with the camera seems to have "RUN OUT", like most demo software that comes with mat. Now I either buy the "upgraded" version of the download software, or buy another camera (different label) JVC has had it with me, NEVER AGAIN!
Spotlight Needed
Unforgivable camera- if you never intend to shoot a video inside. The lowlight problems mentioned in some other reviews are worse than I imagined. I helpful the workaround discussed above, tried out hundreds of combinations of my own, and followed JVC bloke support instructions, all to no avail. Any video shot inside, or otherwise with lowlight, is grainy, sleepy, shadowy and the colors are false. I tried returning the camera to amazon/J&R Music and to JVC, but none of the above would take it back being defunct the 30 day return policy. I am incredibly disappointed in this camera. When put up next to a 5 year old sony vhs camcorder (a budget epitome at that) I realized the low light quality is even worse than my old one! This was a huge waste of affluent - don't buy it.
Noteworthy product
This expose little camera is excellent for the money! I would strongly recommend it to anyone looking for an weak to use digital camcorder.
A scarcely disappointed
I recently purchsased the JVC Everio GZMG27 after much analysis and thought about which platform to get....hard drive vs. mini DV tapes vs. mini DVD discs. I tested the cam yesterday and it was credulous to use, very user friendly (don't really need to read the manual to get it working) and took a superb video. Overall a very good purchase over the Sony which generally payment about $100 more. However, what I do not like about the camera and will be the reason why I am going to return it and securing the DVD mini disc format is the time it takes to create a DVD. Last blackness I copied the test video from the Cam to my hard drive and I discovered the later. The files are some weird MOI type which cannot be opened using any standard video software. You must use the disc that comes with the camcorder. The software does permit you to convert to AVI which would then have to be converted to DVD format. This of course is in real time, so if your video is 2 hours, you must perform back the video for 2 hours and then wait for the computer to first convert to AVI. After that I could rip it to disc in about 45 more minutes. Although there is an opportunity of directly ripping to DVD, I do not like this option since I would like to have a back up (in DVD file composition) on my harddrive along with a copy of the DVD.
With the mini DVD camcorders, it is so easy to make a echo and keep a copy on your computer's harddrive for future editing/copies. Much less time unbearable for sure. The drawback is of course that the discs are only good for about 30 minutes of footage, but that is choice with me.
Hope this saves you some time.