JVC Digital Camcorder

My first digital camcorder was a JVC minidv digital camera. I got it for Christmas, and I was really excited. Within minutes after unwrapping it I was testing it out by filming everyone and everything around me. My wife was being her normal, camera-shy self, so she was less than happy (even though she’s the one that gave me the JVC minidv camera). Words just can’t describe how much she hates it!

But, even she had to agree that my new JVC digital camcorder was a wise gift when she saw the results. All of the special moments of the day with the kids were perfectly preserved for posterity. Once I figured out how to convert it to VHS, we could watch all of my JVC digital camcorder recordings on the family TV together.

Of course, family movies weren’t the only things I taped with my JVC digital camcorder. After the holidays, I recorded all kinds of things. When I first got my JVC digital camcorder, we would simply get together with friends and record whatever we were doing. I made quite a few second and third rate tapes of hockey games and other sporting events on the JVC digital camcorder and later dubbed them with music. I would even record us just hanging out and throwing the frisbee around, or trips to the park with the kids. Anything to get a little experience filming with the JVC digital camcorder.

As I got more serious about film making, though, I began filming narrated tours of historical buildings and Civil War battlefields. With a little home editing on my computer, I’ve begun to put together quite a collection of home-grown documentaries that my kids will be able to use for their school studies. Editing on the computer is fun for me (just for the learning experience), but my favorite place to be was still behind the lens of my JVC digital camcorder. As I get better, the movies I make get more elaborate and ambitious. I got a sound boom to hook up to the JVC digital camcorder, and even got lenses to use effects like optical zoom.

So far, most everything I’ve learned about using my JVC digital camcorder has come from reading the manual and through a log of experimentation, but I’m thinking about taking a night course on filmmaking at the local community college to see if I can get even better at making the movies.