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Summary: nice nice
Review: has great quality not professional but nice video clips can be taken and nice still pictures remote very net and to down load photos is nice has great zoom in and out and the light you can actually make it better after words with the own fitures buy it is nice if you need a video cam and then some pictures so you dont need to carry both video and photo cams
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Summary: Only Bad For Pros
Review: Hi...I had been wanting this camera for such a long time, but didn't know if it was the right way to go. I looked at other reviews, and there were many complaints about terrible picture quality. That discouraged me, but when I went to Circuit City and tried it out, it was awesome! It is very stylish, and an excellent camera. Outdoors, the picture quality is excellent. Indoors it's excellent too, except when in low lighting conditions, the picture is slightly (and I mean very slightly) off-color. This (or so I believe) should only have impact on your choice if you're a professional (or really obsessed with perfect graphics...). The bad thing about this camera is the digital stills. I mean, they're not terrible, but you're much better off just buying a regular digital camera for those purposes (like myself). But that doesn't have any impact on my feeling toward the camera, because I don't plan on using it for still photos. In conclusion, the JVC GR-D90US is an excellent, easy to use video camera that anyone can enjoy! This is a great buy!!!!
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Summary: horrible night shooting, bad microphones, bad pic quality..
Review: I bought my JVC GRD90 last week.... which I promptly returned after few days. I got Sony's DCR-TRV19 instead.
JVC GRD90 claims that it's got all the nice features, yeah, maybe it does have the features, but the qualities are really bad. I'd rather get Sony's DCR-TRV19 which is in the same price range. Sony might have less features but they have better qualities....
For example, the night shooting of JVC GRD90, so called "night-alive" vision sucks... "night alive" is supposed to give you a colorful vision as to sony's green screened "night shooting", but trust me, you rather have a sony's quality green-screened night shooting than JVC's horrible horrible "night alive" shooting.
The pic qualities of JVC, especially in indoor or in low-light condition are very poor. Even in outdoor the images are very gray and dark.
The microphones aren't as good as sony's either.
Oh, and when i was buying this model at the good-guys store in emeryville, CA there were so many opened-box items of this model. I should have initially suspected as to why so many people returned this item.
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Summary: Unacceptable indoors
Review: I bought this camcorder despite concerns about poor indoor performance with the thought that if I tape indoors I'll just turn up the lights. Doesn't work. The amount of graininess is simply unacceptable, and seems to be accentuated on my 32" HDTV. No adjustments to the camera could remedy this. It's embarrassing to show this when my 11 year old Sony Hi8 camcorder does such a better job.
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Summary: whats the point?
Review: I bought this camera for the novelty of putting videos of my kids into the computer. this camera wont do that! I also wanted a webcam, this camera wont do that either! I thought at least i wouldnt have to lug around two cameras on outings, one video, and one still. well, its ok if you dont mind dark, extremely grainy photos. even once you take the time to lighten them up in your pc, they are still terribly grainy. compared to my $200 cannon hi-8 (ES-75) this camera is garbage. the video is grainy when you record indoors, which is bad unless you are homeless and do most of your recording of the kids outside anyways. but we live in a house like most people so the quality of video sucks. NO FLASH for the digital still camera, NO LIGHT for the video camera. "night-alive" is horrible. its like turning on a strobe light, the frame rate is like 3 per second, so you get blurry smeared people flashing on the screen 3 times a second.
whats the point of having a digital video camera, if you cant do anything digital with it? DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!
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Summary: BEWARE, many flaws with this product.
Review: I bought this hoping that i would get a decent camcorder that worked. Well unfortunately it worked for about two or three weeks and it died. The battery was fully charged and i took very good care of it, still it is now a paperweight, since i lost my reicept i'm out the cash. Don't make the same mistake i did. And the quality of the indoor shooting sucks as well
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Summary: Excellent zoom and great picture
Review: I found the GRD90 very easy to use.The picture quality came out great.I also liked the 3.5" lcd. I could never see myself going to anything smaller.Also the size of the camera was important to me.Overall, I would have to say that JVC made a great and easy camera for me.Thank you.
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Summary: Nice compact camera, but...
Review: I just bought this camcorder, thinking I got a really good deal for it. I took it home and wanted to try it out. Like the previous review said, "it does not shoot well indoors". Well, that is true! I took a few pictures indoors with the lights on (it was nighttime) and when I downloaded it to my computer, I saw that the pictures were very poor. It was fairly well-lit indoors, yet the pictures were very dark. The LCD display is very poor as well. When moving the camera, the image was very hazy and the resolution seemed poor. It also says that you can shoot at night. I tried taking a picture of my daughter in a dim room and even when I set it on "Twilight" the picture was very dark. The retail price for this model was ... and I got it at an even lower price because it was an open box model (sales person said there were no mechanical defects and there were only minor cosmetic flaws). It was not even worth that lower price. I will be returning it tomorrow. I advise anyone looking to shoot anything indoors, not to purchase this camcorder. I will be looking at other manufacturers.
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Summary: Good camera with a couple of flaws
Review: I just bought this video camera from Costco at a good price. Got it home and tried it out immediatley. I love the small size and it's so light weight. Also, for a non-tech person likle myself it was very easy to use. We had no problem playing it back on our tv through the VCR and software installtion to download the pictures from the digital camera function was good. Two complaints: I don't like the black and white viewfinder and the pictures from the digital camera function are very grainy but otherwise it seems great.
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Summary: Great Picture, Easy to Use, Works Flawless w/ my Apple!!
Review: I just purchased this camcorder and love the 3.5" screen. I can video my kids at their eye-level instead of hovering over them. Compared to a 2.5" screen this is much easier to use. The color quality is excellent, and the picture looks great on my 36" TV. I also have a new Macintosh computer and it plugged right in with the firewire and I can edit videos. The stabilizer stays on in the automatic mode, which my old JVC didn't do.
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