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JVC GZ-MC500
2.8 stars
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Average Ratings for JVC GZ-MC500

  • Video Quality3.6 stars
  • Sound Quality3.7 stars
  • Battery Life1.4 stars
  • Features3.1 stars
  • Ease of Use3.4 stars
  • Value for Money2.9 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings2.9 stars
  • Overall Rating2.9 stars

5 Reviews For JVC GZ-MC500

  • googlegroups 6th Jul 2006

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    Good Points: Nothing useful. It was better than my oldest DVD-Cam


    Bad Points: The battery. It doesn't let you use the camera in all circumstance if you don't have with you a sufficient number.


    General comments: I've decided to buy the camcorder according to technical specifications that every product expose. All seem fine. Small, MicroDrive, record also on a SD card, 3 CCD sensor, nice zoom. Ah, that's the point.

    If you use the zoom, and I believe that everybody who buys a camcorder would like to use, the zoom to record scenes that isn't properly closed to the camera, the battery duration decrease its productivity switching from 1 hour to something near 20 minutes, according to how many times you use the zoom.

    Unfortunately this "characteristic" isn't specified on the technical sheet, but just on page 15 of Italian manual (I don't know on which page is for
    translated manual). So if you need to fit the Micro Drive shipped with your cam, you must to spend another 200 euros for two additional batteries.

    That's not what I call a worth.

    If anybody told me that when I asked, I wouldn't get that camera even if someone was trying to give me it for free.

    It's impossible to use. I just used that one time during a trip with my family and I've spent 1 and a half hours to recharge battery just for use it another 20 minutes. And all after the night before the battery was completely charged up.

    The most incredible thing about this trouble is that Italian technician, before you buy this product, is that they haven't informed you about this characteristic, and after they say that simply not use the zoom, and will get a full hour of recording. That's a shame. If I cannot use the zoom I guess that a Polaroid is more convenient.

    So don't buy the product if you don't want to spend more money on buing a sufficient number of batteries to assure you get at least one hour of recording.

  • Dingledoodie Rank: Corporal 22nd May 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    The JVC GZ-MC500 digital camcorder is small. It's sexy, and it does what it's supposed to. I love it!

    I knew this gizmo was small, but once delivered and in my hand I was amazed. It's tiny. The other selling point, obviously, is the micro drive. It's great not having to bother with tapes anymore. Take some footage, and within minutes it's transferred onto your PC to make a DVD or send to your mates. Video quality is fantastic, and as my last digital stills camera was only 2.1 mega-pixel ...

  • ALimaFan 23rd Nov 2005

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    I expected high quality from a 3CCD, and this is JVC's top-of-the-line Evario. Instead, the vids/pics look grainy with dark shadows and noise.

    I almost returned this until I re-sized the images to 320x240. It was then that the images (encoded as .mov files) looked fantastic.

    I am using this for multimedia, so that works for me. Were I expecting to create high-quality DVDs from this -- no way. I'd save my money for a Sony HD.

    After 4 days of owning this, it froze. It didn't restore un ...

  • ianux48 Rank: Sergeant 12th Jul 2005

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    JVC GZ-MC500 - I wanted to upgrade my Sony pc6 and shortlisted this and the Sony HC90. Although much more expensive, I was drawn to the small dimensions and sexy looks. The movie image quality is generally superb but the camera does not perform particlarly well in low light. Still images do look good at first but are not true 5 megapixel images, they are imterpolated and may produce a 5mp image size, but a £150 5mp digital camera will walk all over them. The biggest problem is the mpeg for ...

  • kranthipbl Rank: Lance Corporal 14th Jun 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I received my JVC GZ-MC500 camcorder today from BestCameras.co.uk and spent the whole day trying various options.
    Size of the Camera, is it's biggests plus point and ease of operation. Functional buttons are very well placed. Flash is excellent and I'm very much pleased with it.
    There is no degradation of video or images, as files are just copied like from a hard drive. I think, this is one of the biggest advantage of the Microdrive camcorder. With our PVGS70, We face lots of problems while co ...