JVC’s GZ-HM400 – first impressions

JVC Everio GZ-HM400 AVCHD Camcorder

JVC’s impressive new Everio GZ-HM400 full-HD camcorder boasts a generous 1/2.33″ progressive CMOS image sensor that produces impressive images at up to 10.3 megapixels (movies and JPG stills) whilst writing MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format video sequences to flash memory at a choice of four recording modes.

When recording and playing back at the highest UXP quality setting, the HM400 makes use of the maximum 24Mbps data rate possible under the current AVCHD specification and provides almost 3 hours’ recording and playback on the camcorder’s 32Gb internal memory, meaning that a total of 64Gb is available when a 32Gb SDHC memory card is also inserted.

In an exclusive review of JVC’s latest addition to its growing AVCHD family of full-specification HD camcorders, we consider how it will received by the more serious video-making enthusiasts looking for full connectivity in addition to good form factor and manual controllability.

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