The DVL9800 also comes with a pop-up flash that you can use to brighten up the images especially when you shoot indoors. Unfortunately, the flash only works for shooting still images. It would have been better if JVC squeezed a video flash into the digicam. Quality Unlike other dual-mode cameras, the DVL9800 can capture still images at a high resolution of 1,024x768 pixels. Similarly, video quality is excellent if you shoot outdoors.
Colours are bright, vivid and life-like.
But shooting indoors, I noticed a slight degradation of colour quality. This is probably where a built-in video flash would come in handy. I find the positioning of the connection ports on the left flank of the DVL9800 rather inconvenient. To access the connection ports, you would have to flip open the LCD viewfinder. It also offers direct connection to the PC for editing, still photo transfer or video capture.