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(More customer reviews)I moved up from a MiniDV camcorder to this one because of the hard-drive recording. It was a *great* purchasing decision. My personal favorite features:
- Plug it into your computer, drag and drop the clips to your computer, rename them from .MOD to .MPG, and then author a DVD. NO CONVERSION NECESSARY! Records AC-3 audio.
- Easy manual control
- Intuitive navigation of the menu structure (MG21 has a 'stick' control while the MG20 did not)
- 16:9 recording! Fills up my HDTV.
- 32x OPTICAL zoom
- ~5 hours of recording time even in the highest quality setting
Downsides:
- Quality out of the box is not so good, BUT with a few adjustments it is much better
How I get good low-light/indoors video (do the following steps indoors with the camera in capture mode):
1) Disable the "Gain Up" feature (major contributor to the grainy low-light video)
2) Turn on "Manual" mode (via AUTO button)
3) Go to the manual control menu (down on the 'stick')
4) Set AE to '+2'
5) Highlight 'MWB' in the WB menu, point the camera at a sheet of paper (position the camera so the sheet of paper fills the view of the camera) and press and hold the middle of the 'stick' until 'MWB' stops blinking (about 5-10 seconds).
6) Set S.sp. to 1/60
7) Press down on the 'stick' to exit the manual control menu
After doing this, my indoors video quality is MUCH better (no more noise/grainy video). The settings will be saved, even if the battery is removed or depleted; they will return even if you switch to AUTO mode then back to MANUAL.
I am really happy with this camcorder.
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Go Digital, Go Hard Drive! The JVC GZ-MG21 eliminates the need to carry tapes, discs, or any media at all. It can record up to four and a half hours of DVD movie-quality video to a built-in hard disk drive and offers unprecedented features and camcorder storage capacity.
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