JVC's GR-D750 camcorder with "world's highest" 34x optical zoom: for moms and creepy men

Look, we don't want to know how you're going to use a 34x optical zoom on a camcorder, just know that such a beast is now available. That's right, JVC's latest consumer camcorder -- the GR-D750 -- brings what JVC claims to be a "world's highest" optical zoom to the game. It also packs more mundane features such as recording to miniDV in 16:9 or 4:3 formats, a 2.7-inch LCD, and the low-light shooting capabilities JVC is known for. As a member of the "baby movie" series, we guess that zoom is meant to keep tabs on the the robots we use to babysit our kids and light the menorahkinaratree. However, we'll have to wait for 'em to hit Japan first, starting mid-January for an expected ¥50,000 or about $425.

[Via Impress]

[Alex3305 @ Dec 14th 2006 9:08AM]

Title is wrong... It is 34x optical zoom

[Chris C @ Dec 14th 2006 9:08AM]

"32 optical zoom" while it has x34 on the camcorder lol..

typo?

[Aaron Robinson @ Dec 14th 2006 9:10AM]

Hmmm..You guys are always on it, but 32x is last year, and the model displayed has a 34x. Hmmm... check that one out, oooh, a bit 2x more. And on the bottom of the line models. All companies do that with their crap models and then witht he real nice models it's 1-12x zoom. No news here.

[Rick Lyon @ Dec 14th 2006 9:50AM]

Whoa, about time. Now, JVC needs to put the 34x zoom on CAMERAS. I don't need 10 megapixels, but I want to take pictures of objects more then 10 feet away from me. Hopefully, they'll update their camera line. DO they have a camera line?

[chych @ Dec 14th 2006 10:16AM]

Probably the sensor size in a camcorder is much smaller than that in a camera, so the lens itself can be smaller; this is probably why you don't see superzoom lenses in point and shoot cameras, or they would be large. Also bigger sensors in cameras generally correlate to higher picture quality, so its best not to shrink them, especially when the density of pixels is so high already.

[nick @ Dec 14th 2006 3:53PM]

As chynch said: It's not a bigger/more powerful lens, It's a tiny sensor.

[strider_mt2k @ Dec 14th 2006 10:18AM]

Yep, and with all that optical zoom it'll probably end up being used by some of the creepiest folks around: Technical Investigators!

[trebor @ Dec 14th 2006 1:57PM]

Be positive, creepy men is what keeps this industry going.

[Pete @ Dec 14th 2006 3:48PM]

Why do you hate men? Why no mention of psycho stalker women?

You are implying that men are creepy and women are concerned. Put simply, you hate men.

[Mistoffeles @ Feb 11th 2007 7:51PM]

What I want to know is, how do you get this piece of junk to go out of demo mode.

After 5 minutes of streaming live video to my computer, all of these cameras (1 D350 and 2 D750s) go into some stupid store-demo mode where they start showing off their special effects.

Of course, there is no manual available on the website, and the rental company didn't provide paper copies.

Help!

[K @ Nov 19th 2007 4:47AM]

I was just wondering if there is a way I can use a mic with the JVC D750?