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I have been using this camcorder for almost two weeks now. And here are my impressions:

PROS:

A) This is a diminutive camcorder and I can easily carry it in my pocket everyday.

B) It records directly on a 20GB harddrive. This is probably the most astounding feature of this camera. It has the following fabulous benefits:

(1) A enormous recording location

(2) Random access to recorded videos when browsing

(through a thumblist of videos)

(3) Neat rapidly transfer onto your computer through USB 2.0.

(4) No tapes, no CDs, no DVDs to trouble about while recording video.

(5) Facilitates easy archiving/organizing . For example, all the recorded files on the camera's harddrive have "creation date"s as a allotment of their file information. When the camera is connected to your computer, you can sort all files by date and easily separate all recordings by date to different folders by simply selecting and dragging. (This is extra, but if you want to index and be able to search your video files, say with google desktop, simply enter a list of keywords in the file name about the contents of the file.)

(6) The harddrive on your camera can double as additional portable storage media- this is unlikely but If you wanted you could even install linux on it and carry with you an operating system on your camera.

C) Video quality is satisfactory for a consumer level video camera. The sound quality recorded through the internal microphone is good: i can hear the lectures I picture very clearly and there is no annoying noise generated by the camera.

D) The charger that comes with this camera is very exiguous. So you can carry that around as well and distress less about running out of battery.

CONS:

A) No mic jacks.

B) manual focus and light adjustments are done through menus.

C) The editing software that comes with it is miniature.

D) The battery life is a mere hour(but you can rob a 3 hour battery for 70-80 dollars) .

As with all camcorders, the quiet images shot with this camera are not at the level of quality you can net from a righteous unruffled camera. It produces reasonable snapshots in well lit situations.

The video files recorded by this camera have a ".MOD" extension in their name. I replace ".MOD" with ".MPG" and most of my standard video viewing software automatically gape the files.

I really like the long report time of this camera. I bought this camera for my dawdle to Europe, and it was large. It's little, yet much. I could characterize off and on for days before having to dump the movies on my laptop. I would suggest getting a second battery, preferably the 3 hour. The 5 hour is almost the size of the camcorder itself, and made it heavier.

It was hard to rep a case that is microscopic enough for it, yet titanic enough to believe extra stuff like batteries. I bought the: CASE LOGIC TSC-4BLUE Sport Compact Camcorder Case. It doesn't even search for like a camcorder case, which I also like.

The software that comes with it takes some getting obsolete to, but I believe it works well.

Night recording is a runt grainy, but not too terrible. I fancy that it has a wide cloak option. The stability software works well; the hand shaking is greatly reduced.

I don't like the quality of the mild pictures it takes, but I have a separate 8mp camera.

This camera is easy to operate but when it comes to getting the footage on the camera turned into a DVD it is not so easy. I am a fairly comfortable and experienced computer user but not an expert. The software included has very inadequate instructions. For example it says "never race the camera into the computer while the camera is turned on". Later it says "don't ever turn the camera on or off with it plugged into the computer". Hmmm, this makes it awfully hard to transfer files! An email to JVC customer service received no respond!

Then the files near in multiple folders with weird names and extensions. The default file names are actually hexadecimal numbers! Sterling lord! How about using date and time instead?

It's not definite if I can fair put the .MOD files and delete the rest or not. Then when I burn files to DVD's they invariably have skips, even though when I play them on my computer they peer substantial. Maybe this isn't the camera's fault, maybe my DVD's are cheap. Regardless i may acquire myself playing the camera assist onto my TV and recording simultaneously onto VHS tapes if I can't figure it all out!! At this point I have lots of nice videos on my hard drive with peculiar names and no DVD's that I can play on my TV!

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