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4.0 stars
"Pretty Decent Camera"
Pros: Small and easy to use
Cons: Poor low light video, Poor still photo resolution
Summary: I settled and purchased the Everio after fondling many other cameras. After purchasing I came home and read c|net's review and thought I had made a horrible chose. I don't know if the reviewer was shooting video in the highest quality mode because the quality I am getting is very good, in good lighting. In dim lighting sessions the quality is reduced (as were numerous other cameras I tried).
The camera is small like the review states but I've got "normal" sized man hands and the camera fits and functions just fine. The steady shot handles just fine when I zoom out to 64x. Of course if you zoom out further you're going to have to use a tripod to hold any camera steady but it isn't as bad as the c|net reviewer made it sound. But then again any digital zoom begins to get grainy so zooming out to the extremes is not something one does all the time.
The transfer of video from the camera to your PC is a snap but the obscure MPEG-2 format (.MOD extension) is a drawback since video-editing software will not recognize it. With the camera comes software for burning DVDs and editing video but the video editing software does not run on my home PC (laptop yes) and it?s been 4 days now waiting for a technical support answer. You can change the MOD extension to MPG and if you have a MPEG-2 decoder installed you can view the file in Windows Media but again cannot edit it in most editing software.
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JVC Everio GZ-MG27:
$523.99
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