Great Deal on the JVC GZ-HD7 at FreshDV

Great Deal on the JVC GZ-HD7

Published by Matthew Jeppsen September 25th, 2007 in Cameras, Shopping

We’ve mentioned JVC’s GZ-HD7 several times before, a tiny package that packs a punch and generally seems to review well. As it should…it features 3-CCDs capable of capturing over 5 hours of (pixel-shifted) full-raster 1920×1080 HDV goodness to the onboard hard drive, decent manual controls, and a 10x lens designed by Fujinon. A formidable option in the high-end consumer market.

Matt over at DCN noted that over at Amazon the HD7 is now listed at $1,110.99, which is 35% off JVC’s MSRP and only a few dollars more than the slightly less-capable GZ-HD3. Not a bad deal, if you are in the market.

5 Responses to “Great Deal on the JVC GZ-HD7”

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1 Shane Ross Sep 25th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

OK…what EXACTLY does “pixel shifted full raster” mean? The new Sony XDCAM EX said this too…so what the heck does it mean? ANAMORPHIC? How can it be “full raster” and “pixel shifted?”

marketting people…gottta hate them.

So, AVCHD? Guess I should look into this format. I so despise MPEG-2 HDV…and I really like tapeless.

Not that I shoot or anything…but I want to…

Shane
2 Matthew Jeppsen Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:26 pm

I think “pixel-shifted full raster” here is the equivalent of the HVX200’s native chips requiring some “tweaking” to get full res HD. Not that this consumer camera is on par with the HVX, God Forbid. :-)

My personal opinion is that AVCHD is inferior to HDV in all the implementations I’ve seen to date, and not really an “editing codec” (just like HDV requires some hoop jumping for a good editing workflow). I do believe (from cursory reading) that the AVCHD codec is technically at least CAPABLE of delivering better quality than HDV, but nobody seems to be latching onto that with a solid camera + codec package.

-MJ
3 Rashed Albinali Sep 26th, 2007 at 7:36 am

“it features 3-CCDs capable of capturing over 5 hours of (pixel-shifted) full-raster 1920Ã—1080 HDV goodness to solid-state HDD”

I am not sure if you mean it accepts a solid state compact flash? Because I thought this is a Hard drive based model.

-Al
4 Matthew Jeppsen Sep 26th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

No, you are correct. It shoots to a hard drive. I guess I was using the term solid-state a bit loosely, and I apologize for that miscommunication. “Tapeless” is a better descriptor.

-MJ
5 Jamie Archer Jul 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am

It shoots to Class 6 SDHC cards chip but only at what JVC terms SP quality i.e. 1440 x 1080i (mines ntsc so 60i) You have to use the hard drive to get FHD 1920×1080i which apparently is the best quality footage you can get for fast moving subjects. I’ve been practising with it for a few days now its amazing and right now extremely cheap. will buy another if this documentary project goes well!