Typical price: £800
What is it: Pocket-sized, 3CCD, hard-disk DV camera
What we think: Miraculous. It seems like only yesterday that 3CCD camcorders were the size of tanks, but JVC has stuffed one into a chassis no larger than a mini-bar can of Coke
Average user rating
6.0
good
Average user rating from 3 users
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JVC Everio GZ-MC500 user reviews
July 9, 2006
Posted by: Karen Smith
"Not for the lay person"
What I like:
Tiny machine, all on a hard drive
What I don't like:
Found the computer software very difficult to operate, it took a year to burn my first DVD and that was only after I called in a computer expert to help me
Review:
You need to be very comfortable with computers to buy this machine. It's all very well taking the video but its very frustrating not being able to handle the software.
I don't think the still picture quality is very good. It's also frustrating that the battery time only lasts for 40mins and the machine gets very hot
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