JVC Ships Flagship GZ-HM1 HD Everio Camcorder

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Wayne, NJ—JVC’s top-end GZ-HM1 HD Everio video camera is now shipping. It features a full slate of new technologies to optimize picture quality, manual controls for creative flexibility, and performance improvements in three key areas—low-light performance, camera-shake compensation and digital still quality. 

Targeted at video enthusiasts and semiprofessionals, the GZ-HM1 takes 10 megapixel still images with ISO 6400 sensitivity and provides a 10x optical zoom Konica Minolta HD lens, 64GB of internal storage and an SD/SDHC card slot. Its low-light performance is enhanced with a new back-illuminated CMOS sensor that boosts sensitivity to four Lux (compared to nine Lux for the previous GZ-HM400), for recording 1,920×1,080 Full HD video, with 1080/60p output through its HDMI connection. 

To compensate for camera shake, JVC made improvements in wide-angle performance, with the use of prism technology to provide effective results at the wide-angle end of the zoom range. A new advanced optical image stabilization system is designed to provide effective camera-shake compensation in a variety of situations. 

For video enthusiast, the GZ-HM1 offers a selection of manual controls, such as a manual adjustment dial for precise manual focus, among other functions, shutter or aperture priority shooting, bracket shooting, and a user-programmable button for storing frequently used settings.

Other features include: a microphone input; audio level control; headphone output; a top-mounted accessory hot shoe; and a range of creative shooting functions, like time-lapse recording in intervals from one to 80 seconds (when played back, hours-long segments are reduced to seconds) and high-speed recording at 600 frames per second, allowing ultra-slow motion playback for observation and analysis, such as a golf swing. $1,199.95. jvc.com