JVC Everio GZMG555 HDD Camcorder

Pros: Small, light, compact. Easy navigation through the menus.
Cons: Mediocre image quality. Horrible(!) proprietary software. Unable to use own software.

There were just too many frustrations to have to tolerate. I felt relieved, disburdened, when I decided to return it. The camera had heavy saturation on the greens – greens come out mildly fluorescent. The camera cannot handle mid-level light ...

Pros: -uses a harddrive, not tape or a disc, so you can have long recording sessions
Cons: -image quality is just par -poor image stabilization -expensive -poor bundled software

when I first heard about this camcorder, I was really excited to see what it could do. The Harddrive medium is an amazing idea, something never before done (to my knowledge), and is an excellent choice. When using the camera I noticed two major pluses ...

Pros: it's compact, light weight, and the camera itself is easy to function
Cons: software program is horrible, is not user friendly at all. doesn't take good still pictures.

The camera is a nice camera and works like any other camcorder pretty much. We thought a nice feature would be that it's put on a hard drive and not a tape and we could put it all on dvd and send them to family and it would be wonderful. However, even ...