JVCHC500
significant weight and ruggedness to it. It’s meant to be tough, and has a splash-proof bodymade out of magnesium. The JVC-branded lens has a decent amount of glass in it in order to be useable inmanual focus mode, as well as provide a fast maximumaperture and an image circle large enough to cover the one- inch CMOS sensor. What reallymakes the HC500 special is its connectivity, and JVC has gone to extreme lengths to ensure it comes with themost number of options compared to its rivals, allowing streaming via a range of networks tomost of the popular streaming services, including Facebook and YouTube. To stream, you can either plug the camera into a wired network via its ethernet socket, or use an inexpensive plug-inWi-Fi or 4G dongle. The camera’s big brother, themore expensive HC550, comes with its ownWi-Fi built in. It also has the TV-standardMXF format, GPS
“The HC500 can stream inHD or SD at up to 24Mbps with very low latency” The HC500 camera can stream in HD or SD at up to 24Mbps with very low latency of around 0.5secs. That’s a very high bit rate for streaming, as Facebook Live only runs at 5Mbps and Sky Sports transmits live football at 12Mbps. So 24Mbps is way above what anyone currently needs and is a great future-proofing option. When the camera is connected to a network, its controls can be altered remotely via a smartphone or PC, and there’s an auto FTPmode, so as soon as each clip is shot, it automatically transfers to an FTP server ready and broadcast overlays, so is more suitable for TV use.
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