This looks like a great little camcorder. Its main features are:
* Extended field of vision with a 2.7-inch, 16:9 widescreen LCD monitor
* Check exact time left for recording with this 115-minute data battery
* Images can be enlarged up to 800X with this powerful Konica Minolta 35x optical zoom
* More accurate noise reduction with the 3-Dimension Noise Reduction (3D NR) feature
* Includes Night Alive for improved low-light recording
'xeolvoid' at Amazon gave it 5 stars out of 5 and said:
The sound and video quality is amazing! I am very impressed by the quality of the image and sound even at night. There is no blurring when panning around either, but at night its performance slightly suffers. Sometimes it takes a few seconds to focus correctly at night from switching from close to distant objects, but it is crystal clear. The sound is GREAT. Its easy to use, easy to hold.
In order to place taped videos to the PC, you need a Fire Wire port on your computer, a 6pin to 4pin fire wire cable, and a lot of hard drive space. One hour is about 14 gigs when transfered 100% uncompressed. After editing and compression though the file size is very manageable.
**For every minute you record it takes one minute to transfer to the PC**
If I had payed 350 dollars for this, I would still be amazed. Its the steal of the year, so cheap yet so good...! I bought the camera, firewire cable, three Fuji Film MiniDV's with tax didnt break 300 dollars!
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JVC GR-D850 MiniDV Camcorder with 35x Optical Zoom
