JVC GZ-HD3

price, usability

design

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

portability, usability, image quality, color, durability

viewfinder, memory

60% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

100% des avis sur Amazon.fr donnent une note favorable à ce produit.

External mic jack, 'professional' design, image quality should impress most users

Minor performance issues, a bit bulky

The GZ-HD3 is a solid HDD camcorder that will satisfy in most of the areas that count. Despite a few design issues, it offers a respectable performance for the asking price.

The HD3 has a 60GB hard disk built in, again the same as the HD7, which is enough for five hours of recording in XP mode. There are two other recording modes on offer - a 1440CBR mode with the same data rate as XP but using a constant data rate for...

Mostly strong performance ; Sturdy build ; Great lens

Not very lightweight ; Not Full HD

Puts in a truly great performance, this HD cam ticks most boxes

Disgustingly good variable speed zoom focuses fast to shoot action like Michael Bay. Front-side light switches on in the dark for hot lights-out action. 5 hours video recording at max resolution. Loaded with outputs: HDMI, USB 2, i.Link (FireWire), and...

Dull HD video; we’ve seen pears that were crisper. We’d prefer one CMOS to three CCDs. Semi-proprietary MOD file-format a pain to use with many common video-editing apps. Just over one hour of battery life? We’re gonna need at least twice that to...

A quality camcorder which produces good picture quality, we had a couple of gripes with the JVC GZ-HD3, but were generally impressed.

Good-looking design ; High quality audio ; Low levels of noise in low light video

Low-resolution video ; Needs built-in neutral density (ND) filter ; No viewfinder

The Everio GZ-HD3 is significantly cheaper than the GZ-HD7 -- AU$1,999 versus AU$2,799. And while we bemoan the loss of the focus ring and the other button-based manual controls, the HD7's image-stabilisation and battery troubles, as well as its...

The GZ-HD3 is a step in the right direction for JVC, by most measures. Its first consumer high definition camcorder, the GZ-HD7 was simply too ambitious for the weekend shooter to afford or operate. But it wasn't producing video of a high enough...

A quality camcorder which produces good picture quality, we had a couple of gripes with the JVC GZ-HD3, but were generally impressed.

Built-in 60GB hard drive, full sounding stereo audio, footage clearer and cleaner than competing AVCHD devices, solid and well built with unusual features at a consumer level, including lens hood

HDMI lead and SD cards are optional yet (relatively) essential extras