Bidding farewell to the bulky video cameras with boxy look, JVC has come up with its new model JVC Everio GZ-X900 to attract the shooters for whom compactness is the main concern. Deviating radically from its earlier versions, this camcorder looks incredibly small, delivers exceptionally brilliant videos and doesn’t come cheap at all. The new look along with its new features does demand you to put down extra bucks and it truly deserves what all you might be spending on it. This little wonder is equipped with a host of features like: 1/22.3 CMOS Sensor, HDMI output, 9 megapixels still images, 3 high-speed recording modes, 5x optical zoom, laser touch operation.

The fact that the JVC has managed to fit in large sensor into that tiny body is definitely a heroic feat that deserves our accolades and it is here that the revolutionary innovation of JVC comes into play. The extreme compactness of the camcorder means that you will have to cram in all your features and technologies in that limited space alone and this calls for a sacrifice in the areas of optical zoom and the internal memory. There is no hand strap and external mic in this model. These drawbacks seem trivial when compared to the overall functioning of the camcorder.

Even when you shoot still images, the pictures are largely shake-free giving a major relief to the user.  It is in the low-light shooting venture the flaws hidden in this camcorder’s closet come into the fore; the pictures shot in dark are grainy and noisy and will put you off if you had great expectations from this feature. There’s nothing praise-worthy about the device’s laser-touch feature as it doesn’t function properly. More often than not you will end up pressing the wrong button or using the mode you haven’t asked for.