JVC Everio GZ-MG50 30GB Hard Drive Camera

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Can anyone give me some advice regarding this camera. I have never
owned a video camera and I will be getting one soon. I only need it
for family videos, as I will be getting married soon, and vactions. I
also have a separate digital still camera, so this is only for video.
I read alot about the CCDs and mpeg quality and all sort of stuff that
I dont fully understand. This camera seems like it should be pretty
easy for me to store all of my film on my computer, I have a huge HD,
and I wont have to purchase or carry around several tapes or dvds. I
will want to be able to edit the footage together, but again this wont
be anything fancy. The camera is very lightweight and compact but it
doesnt have an eyepiece, or a place to attach an additional light to
it. I dont know if the eyepiece is important or not, but I am
concerned about low light filming. Although I am under the impression
that every camera will have some issues with that. I have also heard
rumors about a very long, 14 second, boot time and the possiblity of
the camera getting very hot. Does anyone know if any of this is true?
I am looking to spend around $1,000 for a new camera, and if this is a
bad choice can anyone offer any good ideas and please tell me why.
Thanks in advance, I really appreciate the help.
 
You've made a good choice. Welcome to the 21st Century of family video.
One important precaution for your tape-less camcorder is to backup the
videos you want to keep on DVD, or another hard drive. That saved me
when I had my hard drive go bad and lost all of my video from my
tape-less camcorder. I had many, many hours of video of my
grandchildren that I was able to restore.

As for your buyer's remorse over spending $1,000 on a camcorder . . . .
get over it. Don't be paying attention to rumors you read in blogs or
forums. Pay attention to more authoritative sources, such as
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/JVC-Introduces-Four-Hard-Drive-Based-Everio-Camcorders.htm

I use Womble Video Wizard ( www.womble.com ) to edit the MPEG-2 video
from my tape-less camcorder. I highly recommend it.

Bye.

PS. I wasn 't kidding about making backups.
 
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