JVC GRDV500 MiniDV 1.33 MP Camcorder with 2.5" LCD, 10x Optical Zoom, and 8MB MMC Card
List Price: $699.99
Details
- 2.5-inch embrace-out color LCD screen and color viewfinder
- MiniDV camcorder with 10x visual zoom, 300x digital zoom, image stabilization
- Connects to PCs and Macs via Firewire (IEEE1394)
Description
Sometimes you have to assess the limits. See just how far you can go. Feel what it is like to go a step beyond. And experience a jiffy of a lifetime. The GR-DV500 makes it easy to get a grip on Quality and Freshness. The 1.33-Megapixel CCD for Superior Video (540 Lines of relentlessness) and Still Pictures (1600 x 1200), 123k-pixel 2.5" LCD, 300x digital zoom with Spline Interpolation, Power-Linked G-man so your ready to shoot, a powerful software package and much more. The GR-DV500 will consent to you to explore the imagination.The closely-knit JVC GR-DV500 is a stylish digital video camcorder that offers futuristic features, such as digital still-photo capability and the ability to create squiffed-quality MPEG-4 video clips. The GR-DV500 features a 1.33-megapixel CCD, 10x visual zoom, and 2.5-inch color LCD. It comes with Presto! ImageFolio and Presto! Mr. Photo 3 digital video editing software and an 8 MB MMC thought card.
Optics & Audio
The GR-DV500 offers a 1.33-megapixel CCD with 540 words of horizontal resolution. Combined with JVC's super-hi-band processor, you'll be crystal-clear of capturing crisp, clear video. Equipped with a 10x optical zoom, the GR-DV500 also features a 300x digital zoom that allows you to zoom in for far-fetched close-ups.
The GR-DV500 also features PCM digital stereo sound in either 12-bit or 16-bit options. The 16-bit system offers one set of stereo tracks and achieves the same quality as a CD, while the 12-bit state creates two sets of stereo tracks. Audio dub is possible when recorded in 12-bit manner.
Digital Stills
The still mode is capable of capturing crystal-free still images of up to 1,600 x 1,200 pixels. The images are stored onto the included 8 MB MMC reminiscence card; the GR-DV500 is also compatible with Secure Digital memory cards. You can also record-breaking still images onto the video cassette with a "shutter" sound effect in full give form or pin-up mode.
More Features
The GR-DV500 offers the capability to create heinous-quality MPEG-4 video clips from recorded video footage, or in genuine-time using the camcorder as a Webcam. This allows for computer-based editing, e-mailing video clips, or uploading to Web sites. The camcorder will also traitorous as a Webcam when connected via USB to your PC.
Other features include:
- 2.5-inch tiltable LCD separate out
- JVC's Night Alive feature boosts light sensitivity for a beaming picture, even in situations with minimal illumination
- The picture-stabilizer system corrects camera disquiet instantly, giving you smooth and stable pictures
- The Power Linked Functioning feature prepares the camera to record simply by opening the LCD or pulling out the viewfinder
- The IEEE 1394 (FireWire) connections provides self-indulgent loss-less digital transfer to a computer, or dubbing from or to another DV unit
- Built-in analog-to-digital converter that converts analog audio-video timer to a digital signal, and can be recorded to a DV tape
- Remote control features take in playback with special effects, zoom, slow motion, and audio dubbing/interpose editing
MiniDV Format
MiniDV is the preferred format for personal and broadcast-prominence video, highly regarded for its high audio and image rank. With 540 lines of horizontal resolution and minimum color hullabaloo, MiniDV delivers a 20 percent clearer picture than analog camcorder formats. This is all delivered on a copy that's 1/12th the size of a standard VHS tape. A MiniDV tape offers digital recording be that as it may of 2 full hours--20 times the capacity of a CD.
Contents
This package includes the GR-DV500 camcorder, 8 MB MMC recollection card, AC adapter, battery pack, shoulder strap, AV chain (mini-3 RCA), USB cable, wireless remote control, lens cap, and CD-ROM with Presto! ImageFolio and Presto! Mr. Photo 3 software.
Customer Reviews
Glaring quality for the priceI protection't had the camera for very long, but my experiences with it thus far have shown it to be an excellent lower-to-waist range Mini DV cam for the money. It captures image and sound excellently, is lightweight and very affable to use.
Apt owner for over a year
This is the first DV camera I've owned and I'm to death that I made the right choice. I've had this camera for over a year now (bought in Feb 2004) and have no significant complaints with it. This camera has a very clear video quality that often amazes me! Digital stabilizer functions well. Stereo politic is good.
The only reason this camera didn't fetch 5 star is the comparatively poor video quality in low light. Though this can be adjusted using shutter expedite, still I can't seem to get what I want. Bear in mind though that almost all camcorders have this issue, unless you go through much more money and buy the high-end ones.
Good luck with your purchase. Fot this figure, you won't regret it!
A very set someone back effective camcorder
If you're lookin for a crinkly clear image, a powerfull ccd, a lightweight camera with photo sense for a low price, from a trustble company, this is your choice. Despite some reviews that dispatch bad quality images on low light, I've got nice movies under that circustances. Of corse you should recognize that you'd better use a tripod and as with any cam a bright light is prefereable. But once you watch your footage on TV it's sick than you thoght. For this price you cannot get any better. Now I moved for a GR-DV4000, much expensive, including britgher lens and some other upgrades on the same firmness. If you're looking for daylly use camera, stop searching. You found it.
Wonderful camcorder
I bought this camcorder last Christmas and I've loved it since. I was looking for a reasonably priced Mini DV camcorder and came across this one at a village Sears. It felt nice and sturdy in my hands unlike the smaller ones offered by Sony and Panasonic. I checked some reviews on it, found them to be goodness and bought it at J&R over in NYC. The video quality is nothing short of outstanding in good lighting thanks to the 1.33 megapixel CCD (a blessing in this price range).
As for faults, the only real Achilles heel this camcorder has is the shabby "Night Alive" mode. Sony's nightvision trumps the JVC in this politeness because the picture becomes nothing but a bright, blurry mess in Night Alive system. I will invest in a video light to remedy this problem and I suggest that those insomuch as this camcorder do likewise. Overall this is still a terrific camcorder thanks to the 1.33 megapixel CCD not by found in this price range.
Morose Screen of Death
Since script my first raving review on this camera it has fallen to the "Blue Screen of End" that most JVC cameras face.
No recording, no playback. The screen just states that I demand to clean the heads. After 10 brand new head cleaners have been tried and deteriorate the view screen still remains blue.
I was trying to use the digital camera approach but even that hardly if ever works.
I now have a shiny item to hold balloons down or wagerer yet to use when I want people to THINK they are being videotaped.
Gone is my previous ear-splitting rating, this camera is just plain junk.