JVC Everio GZHD3 3CCD 60GB Hard Disk Drive High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom | 
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| Brand: JVC
Category: Photography
List Price: $1,312.28
Buy New: $779.00
You Save: $533.28 (41%)
New (6) Used (5) from $425.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3860
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Optical Zoom: 10
Display Size: 2.8
Maximum Focal Length: 32
Minimum Focal Length: 3.2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 5.7 x 3.2
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: GZHD3
Model: GZ-HD3
UPC: 046838031441
EAN: 0046838031441
ASIN: B000TRBD3M
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Capture and share home movies in full HD | | • | Built-in 60 GB hard disk drive; SD/SDHC memory card slot | | • | Three 1/5-inch CCDs with 1440 x 1080 (square) pixels | | • | Fujinon 10x optical zoom lens | | • | Optical image stabilization; Focal Assist function |
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Product Description
The art and practicality of the HD video camcorder has reached a convenient size for simple everyday use with the JVC Everio GZ-HD3. With recording capability of up to 1440x1080 resolution, your vids can fill the high performance screen of your new widescreen HDTV for a new era of viewing pleasure. The lens of the GZ-HD3 was developed by KonicaMinolta and delivers an extremely detailed picture with clear contrast and strong presence throughout the image ? the type of stable and consistent performance that becomes essential when recording images at HD specifications. For bright, realistic colors the it uses three 1/5-inch CCDs - one each for red, green and blue - for natural, vivid images.
It's designed for friendly use. Focus Assist outlines in-focus image contours in color so you can easily tell which parts of the image are in or out of focus. A full array of effects is available so you can choose the right exposure or shutter speed automatically according to the scene you're shooting. Easily accessible via visual menu dial. Go creative with the Zebra Function that sisplays a striped pattern across highlight areas on the image, making it easier to manually set the exposure. Moving to HD MPEG2 video recording offers pro quality. With JVC GZ-HD3 in your hand, it's simple to be a pro for all you and your family's video camcorder needs - ready for viewing on your widescreen HDTV. Video Record Modes - FHD (1920x1080i, 26.6Mbps) / SP (1440x1080i, 19Mbps) / 1440CBR (1440x1080i, 27Mbps [CBR]) XP (1440x1080i, Max. 30Mbps, Ave. 26.6Mbps) Connections - USB 2.0/1.1, HDMI Out, iLINK Out, Component Video Out, S-Video Out, AV Out, SD/SDHC Memory Card Slot, DC In Still Image Res [4 - 3] 1440x1080 / 1024x768 / 640x480; [16 - 9] 1920x1080 Unit Dimensions - 3-1/4 x 3 x 6-1/8 (82mm x 75mm x 154mm) / About 20 ounces Includes battery and charger / Video and still transfer software Easily transfer video and still cont
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
High quality camcorder, but lack viewfinder October 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Impressive fit and finish, easy-to-use features, image quality is good under daylight, but poor in a low-light environment. I paid $530 on Amazon in August '08 so it's a good value.
 JVC Hd3 August 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Camcorder is pathethic.... First off, Digital Stabilization is the worst Idea Next to Intrapolated Pictures for higher Megapixels on your digital camera.... and it works about the same... Unfortunately you can't turn that off in Auto Mode, and Manual mode is too hard for anyone who doesn't know the camera to use... Lack of viewfinder is a lost cause if you plan on shooting anything at higher speeds... Like rc airplanes....
and why the heck would they force interlaced video... It sucks... it Looks terrible viewed on my 50" lcd hdtv.... I have to first convert everything over to deinterlaced... Also to strip the extra byte off their format to make it reg mpg you need to import it into powerdirector it will conver/strip the encoding off and leave you with a regular mpg (no conversion or re-compression)
I would have bought the Canon hd10, but the speed of the zoom on the canon was slower than a snail, but video on the canon looked much better... I should have just put up with the slow zoom... at least the canon stays in focus that way...
PS, the $400 minidvd camcorders Have Way better stabilization... this camera just isn't very usable... it prob isn't worth a dime... Skip JVC and buy the canon...
 Great item, great price. July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This camera is absolute quality. I love the large lens, the great features, the comfortable handling, and the sharpenss of the footage. 60gb allows for up to 5 hours of HD footage, which is incredible. The stock battery may only last about 1-2 hours of use, but I'm surprised how long the first charge actually lasted. Quality, even at 10x zoom is great, and there is some noise in low-light conditions, but filming without proper lighting is asking a little much.
Overall, I'm very happy about this purchase, and I would recommend it for anyone looking to buy a great camera for every day use, or even for filming small movies for fun.
Excellent digital camera/camcorder!! June 6, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love this camera!! It's very simple to use and has many features to support most video/photo adjustments the average person would want to make to take a great shot. My wife likes it and she's not particularly tech-savvy. I'm a software developer so I tend to do well with technology.
I was drawn to the camera because of the HDD digital storage and it seemed to be high quality when compared with others that I experimented with in it's class without being bulky, or having an awkward or complicated user interface. Once I discovered this unit at my favorite technology retail store, I did a lot of research on the device - its features and usability, and tried to find it's weaknesses from any professional review I could locate. I did all my searching on the Internet. What I found was that nearly all the reviews were raving when compared with others (it was a leader in major publishers). The weakness that was pointed out by only a few reviews was that it seems to have an ever so slight difficulty managing orange toned colors. Particularly in bad lighting. This was an acceptable downside to me considering how well it outperformed many other areas in autofocus, zoom, anti-wobble (stabilization for shaky hands), shutter speed, backlighting, flash (with anti-red-eye), color accuracy (despite the orange issue), viewfinder, user interface, digital storage speed, and quality of resulting video. The photography aspect doesn't come lacking either. However, the orange issue applies also to stills. BTW, (reviewer note) this is more apparent to me since the interior of my house is painted with earth tones. The camera doesn't have any trouble at all in natural (outdoor) lighting.
The camera's hard drive also has a shock-proof feature to protect the hard drive in a fall, an input jack for an optional external microphone, 10x/40x/300x zoom, and several other features. Another professional review was displeased with the built in microphone (I haven't noticed this problem). But that's certainly eliminated with the optional external microphone and mount-point. Another great usability feature is that the most common scene capture adjustments you would want to make can be set from a mini on-screen popup menu, the more uncommonly used adjustments are made via the main menu. The popup menu can be accessed and adjusted during video recording (which would also be noticed on the resulting video).
One downside I have encountered is that the file output is not a common output format (perhaps it is to support higher quality video recordings). MOD is this file format. I don't know what that is so I end up converting all my movies to MPG. If I didn't have a way to record a script on my computer this batch conversion process would have been very frustrating and time consuming.
The user manual was straight-forward and thorough. I read the whole thing in a few sittings when I bought it and have been very glad I did. I couldn't have gotten up to speed with it nearly so fast. Firstly, the user interface has very few controls, very few buttons. That's what I wanted, but it meant that I would have to learn to navigate the menus in order to know where to find what I wanted to execute it quickly in live action. The manual certainly met my needs in that area. So there is a learning curve. It's been 15 months (birth of our first-born) since I bought it and I'll be returning to the manual for a refresher on those infrequently used features which could be helping me and I've simply forgotten.
Overall, the camera is easy to adjust and get into the action quickly. I personnally dislike having to make a party wait for the camera man to adjust his (complicated) camera. I didn't want to be that camera man. This camera has been an excellent fit.
I know the 3CCD is a major innovation but I don't remember much about it - but it takes great videos and pictures. I certainly recommend it, but I
can't give it 5 stars for the orange tone management. Probably a 4.5!!
Easy to use May 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bought the camera 1 month ago from Amazon. Easy to use and download software (I'm not a techi). I needed to spend some time to get used to the editing software with the camera, but now I can use most basic functions. Microphone can pick up any adjustments you make to the camera while filming, so just try to use adjustments sparingly. Excellent HD camera for the price. Happy with the purchase and will probably upgrade camera with microphone to help pick up speeches etc...
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