Poor quality still images, Short battery life, No viewfinder The Final Word A great little camcorder only let down by poor quality still images and below par battery life.
A great little camcorder only let down by poor quality still images and below par battery life.
Generally satisfying video and still-photo quality, Light and compact design, Appropriate and usable manual controls
No eye-level viewfinder, Requires a pass through the manual to understand operation, No internal lens cover, Renders reds poorly, Video looks washed out on computer
A well-designed hard-disk-based camcorder, the JVC Everio GZ-MG505 produces video and stills that look great on TV. But its price might make you hit Pause. ...
3CCDs. Long recording time. Adequate software. Pleasant in the hand. Simplicity of controls. Cold shoe and microphone socket. Relatively sophisticated still camera functions; nice pictures.
Slow to focus on zooming. No headphone socket. Drop-off in available pixels in 16:9.On-the-camera battery charging. Lack of optical image stabilisation.
I didn?t think it would happen (myself not being a great fan of MPEG video cameras), but if someone was entering video ? especially if they were intending to travel and wanted a convenient, simple camera with a lot of storage for under $2000 ? then I w...
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Published: 2007-08-25, Author: Karl , review by: macworld.co.uk
Built-in 30GB hard drive, easy file manipulation and transfer, compact if a little weighty, good control layout, acceptable picture quality, quick startup
No built-in lens cover, no electronic viewfinder for eye-level shooting, relatively short battery life, no manual focus ring
Proprietary video codec makes using third-party editing tools problematic
Although the hard-disk format has yet to come of age, theres plenty to recommend here. The MG505 is a solid and impressively specced camcorder that pushes the format that little bit closer to superseding tape ...
Abstract: The GZ-MG505 is the flagship model in a range of JVC camcorders that generate compressed Mpeg-2 video streams in addition to Jpeg digital still images, and write them to a 1.8in 30GB non-removable hard disk drive (although an optional SD card can also ...
qualité dimage (vidéo et photo) globalement satisfaisante ; format léger et compact ; commandes manuelles appropriés et utiles, prise micro.
pas de viseur optique ; lecture du manuel indispensable pour comprendre son fonctionnement ; pas de cache dobjectif interne ; piètre restitution des rouges ; vidéo délavée sur un moniteur.
caméscope à disque dur bien conçu, le JVC Everio GZ-MG505 produit une vidéo et des clichés remarquables sur un écran de téléviseur, mais vous serez peut-être freiné par son prix.
qualité dimage (vidéo et photo) globalement satisfaisante ; format léger et compact ; commandes manuelles appropriés et utiles, prise micro.
pas de viseur optique ; lecture du manuel indispensable pour comprendre son fonctionnement ; pas de cache dobjectif interne ; piètre restitution des rouges ; vidéo délavée sur un moniteur.
caméscope à disque dur bien conçu, le JVC Everio GZ-MG505 produit une vidéo et des clichés remarquables sur un écran de téléviseur, mais vous serez peut-être freiné par son prix. ...
