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ricmupindu 8 September 2010
Good: handy flexible eye viewfinder & smart
Bad: the LCD panel always looks like its goin to break & firewire port(1394) is not firmeasily breakable
Comment: i own a Panasonic NVGS500 the LCD is having some squiky sounds one of the pin on 1394 connection has bend.
Shohei Kobayashi 28 September 2008
Good: Wonderful borderline-professional image quality, easy to use, lovely looking, lightweight, pro-sumer pricetag!!!
Bad: Firewire and usb port behind flip-out screen
Comment: An attractive 3CCD minidv camcorder for under £1000? Woah! When I bought my GS500 I was looking for the catch, there wasn't one... and I've bought a lot of expensive cameras in recent times (mainly as part of my job.) The GS500 came out a couple of years ago, a smaller lighter version of the GS400 (which I have also owned) and I must say it's a big improvement in terms of practicality. To have the amount of image quality the GS500 has in such a light, compact, functional camera is nothing short of exceptional.
Me and my GS500 are coming up to our 12 month anniversary and it's in such good condition, although I must confess to dropping it onto concrete more than once (who'd think I worked with these things, eh?) but it's so robust, I honestly can't report a blip in functionailty, and it looks great; that combination is a definate indicator of high-class product design.
PS. I bought my NV-GS500 in Japan so it's NTSC, but that's the only difference to the UK model.