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JVC JVC GZ-MG155 30GB Hard Drive Camcorder

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Pros
High video quality
One-button video transfer to PC
Cons
Low-quality still images

Performance
Video image quality	Very Good
Still image quality	Poor
Battery lifeTime for the camcorder's battery to go from fully charged to exhausted while recording to tape or disc with the LCD active.	Good (102 minutes)
Overall design	Very Good
Video/still image recording media types	30GB hard drive, SD Card
Image stabilization type	Electronic
Electric viewfinder	No
Manual focus	Yes
Remote	Yes
Flash shoe	No
Inputs/outputs	A/V in, A/V out, FireWire, S-Video in, S-Video out, USB
Weight (ounces)	12
Dimensions (inches)	2.8 by 2.6 by 4.4

User Reviews for JVC JVC GZ-MG155 30GB Hard Drive Camcorder

Reviewed by: LAHERI

Duration of ownership: 6 Months

Strengths: easy menu,good picture quality,no need of disc or tapes,reasonable price

Weaknesses: poor picture quality in low light,illumination light rarely help almost ineffective,lack of optical stabilisation,digital stabilisation is not effective like optical stabilisation of panasonic.poor still photo

Overall Evaluation: I am using this camcorder since nov 2007.Its menu are easy and no need to preserve disc or tapes as it has 30gb hard drive.good optical zoom of 34x. I have purchased extra battery of jvc brand 823 which last for almost 4 hrs. bottom line is that you need extra battery, poor still photo,lack of optical stabilisation,for using 34x zoom you need tripod, I would suggest panasonic sdr h 200 in this place as it has 3 ccd system and O.I.S.which this jvc has not.
Reviewed by: mikek753

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: small, not so expensive, HDD 7 hours video in SP

Weaknesses: DIS doesn't help much - have to use tripod, compression brings artifacts for any motions, AF depends on light conditions, built in Lamp doesn't help at all. Long start up time. Battery dries in a hour

Overall Evaluation: Overall it's a good camera that uses HDD, where you have plenty of space, but battery put limit on it.Even it can run for more then hour on included battery in real life you can't make 1 hour recording as you stop / start recording from time to time, but have to keep camera on it would result in 30 min total recording time. So, make sure you have charger with you all the time or extra battery.Now, about DIS - it helps, but not much. You have to use tripod if you want to get good video.1 mp camera image is very bad, after I took two shots I stopped using it, even my cell phone does it with better quality - so don't count on it.I don't know why I don't have many colors as I liked, could be due to run time compression to mpeg2! Again what do you expect from $500 camera. But, that's $500 anyway - so I'd like to get better video quality at this price.I hope you'll get better luck with this camera.