JVC Everio GZ-MG27

usability, portability, price, image quality, design

size, battery, reliability

84% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

The harddrive based camcorder is the best idea single the USB flash stick design, but this model really kills that notion

Horrible video quality results in almost black and white imagery ; Nasty, crude, unfinished menus

Very good feature set. HDD recording is a great concept. Size is perfect

I was surprised by the poor quality video. I tried many different options, lighting - even in daylight - it is not below par

Please note I bought this for my wife and her number one criteria was it must work in the stables where the lighting is poor - this was the only one I found with a wide aperture (at a price I was willing to pay!), and it does the job very well.

Down side for me when I use it is that there is no viewfinder, but that was a "price" worth paying to get the wide aperture.

easy to use video, camra shots a little more tricky.. Battery life with the standard one is OK, but better with a bigger long lift battery.. images are good , and for the price you would struggle to get better.

Standard battery poor

This is a good all rounder, 40 GB HD is more than enough,Video images and color are very good,as are the photo's

Battery life could be a bit better

Compact and fairly light

Slow to power up Auto focus often sluggish

Being able to burn all that is recorded directly onto a DVD is great

Trying to find all the items in the menu was a bit difficult at first

The picture, build and sound quality are all excellent.

On the camera you can link together different scenes to make a simgle playback list, however the PC software which comes with the camera doesn't recognise these playback lists so you can't just choose to commit a single playback list to the PC, instead...