<<<-- Originally posted by Frank Granovski : 1) The GS400 has 3, 1/4.7" CCDs; the DV5000 has 3, 1/2" CCDs.
2) The DV5000 is big; the GS400 is not.
3) You can change lenses on the DV5000; with the GS400 you can't.
4) The DV5000 has a lot of manual controls for fine tuning.
5) The DV5000 is a pro cam; the GS400 is not---even though you might have bought the K-K version (black). :-)) -->>>

The question was really for Jon Kamps, who apparently had been using DV500s at work. Reliability is a key concern for JVC products.

The DV5000 apparently replaced the DV500, if I am not wrong.

What you listed I already know, and probably a lot more things. So I was rather more interested on direct comparison of these JVC models and other DV cameras, like GL2, XL1s, GS400 and PD150/170.


Carlos