Latest JVC Everio GZ-MG670 80GB HDD Camcorder Review: Features, Specs and Price
September 10, 2009 by eCamera Talk
Filed under Camcorder
Today we are going to introduce JVC Everio GZ-MG670, which is an 80GB HDD Camcorder with a HD up-convert with HDMI for 1920×1080/60P output, 40x Dynamic Zoom with Konica Minolta lens and laser-touch operation.
The JVC Everio GZ-MG670 camcorder uses a Konica Minolta lens with a 40x dynamic zoom and 800x digital zoom. Dynamic zoom achieves up to 40x magnification by using nearly all of the CCD’s effective pixels without any picture quality degradation. For sharing, the Everio MG670 makes it easy to watch videos on an iPod or iPhone by exporting videos to the user’s iTunes library with the new One Touch Export function provided by bundled software for Windows.
TheJVC Everio GZ-MG670 is the rare camcorder that could serve both beginners and advanced users well. If you’ve never dealt with a camcorder before, the MG670 is still ready to roll straight out of the box. Just turn it on, set the date, and hit record. The huge 35x optical zoom is fun, but we recommend going easy on it, lest you give your audience motion sickness.
As a popular JVC camcorder, the JVC Everio GZ-MG670 offers a lot of amazing features, let’s take a look at them.
Features:
- Pressing the button will launch the appropriate Windows PC application that comes bundled with Everio, and the user simply follows the simple on-screen prompts. With just a few mouse clicks the process of uploading to YouTube, exporting to iTunes, burning to disc or transferring to an external hard disk drive will be completed.
- For disc based archiving, there is an alternative to using a PC. JVC offers the CU-VD50 Direct DVD Burner/Player as an option, which allows burning of Everio videos to a DVD disc without having to use a PC.
- The new Everio MediaBrowser software supplied with all Everio models is a Windows application providing an easy-to-search calendar-type graphical interface for indexing and finding video files. Thumbnail images of recorded videos and stills are superimposed on the calendar so it’s easy to see when any scene was recorded.
- Digest Playback offers an easy and entertaining way to check the content residing on Everio’s HDD or SD/SDHC card. The function automatically selects highlight scenes from among the recorded content using JVC’s proprietary algorithm and plays back what looks like a “coming attractions” trailer for a movie. Sixty minutes of footage is condensed into five minutes of highlight scenes.
- Laser Touch Operation has been updated to allow control of zooming and recording using either the Laser Touch scroll bar or buttons next to the LCD screen, as well as by the standard zoom lever and REC button. And as before, Laser Touch makes it easy to browse through thumbnail images of recorded scenes and access menu selection.
These are just the key features this JVC camcorder has, you’ll find out more when you get the camcorder.
Specs:
- 80 GB HDD for up to 100 hours of recording
- HD up-convert with HDMI for 1920×1080/60P output
- 40x Dynamic Zoom with Konica Minolta lens
- Laser-touch operation with sub-trigger and zoom; one-touch upload to YouTube
- One-touch upload to YouTube
Price as Reviewed: $404.95 (on Amazon)
This is a very affordable price for such a cool JVC camcorder, no wonder so many people are choosing it.
So what do you think about the JVC Everio GZ-MG670 80GB HDD Camcorder?
If you want to learn more about the JVC Everio GZ-MG670 80GB HDD Camcorder and get it, you can find it on Amazon and eBay.
