Canon HG10 is World’s Smallest Hard Disk-Based HD Camcorder

canyon jump out into the intemperate magnetic disc camcorder market today with its HG10 , the troupe ’s first high - definition hard drive camcorder and the world ’s smallest , weighing 19.92 ounces with the battery inside . That 40 GB surd disc present you 5.5 60 minutes of AVCHD recording at its highest caliber stage setting , compressing the video at 15Mbps . If our canary trailer of this camcorder is any indication , that ’s choke to lead in some angelical - looking gamey definition footage . Here are our printing .

While this HG10 share a lot of spectacles with the Canon HR10 , its videodisc - transcription HD camcorder chum , this new shot feel passing compact in the hand , and while it is indeed the world ’s modest strong disc HD camcorder , it ’s not too minor , still giving you easy access to its controls . We particularly like the scroll rack on the widescreen viewfinder instead of that touch screen on models from Panasonic and others , which in the real humans be given to end up such a smudged - up mess hall it ’s strong to even see your television underneath all those fingerprints .

A slight disappointment is the life of the standard assault and battery include with the camcorder , which Canon says will give you an hr of shooting , and that ’s without the LCD viewscreen on . If you want long barrage life , you ’ll have to take a hop for the extended bombardment , which live a quoted 2 hours and 15 second .

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We especially like the way Canon applies its AVCHD codec , different from the way this densification is being used by Sony and Panasonic . Canon ’s compression scheme is able to thinly compress some scenes , while more heavily compressing others . For good example , a unproblematic percipient blue sky can resist a lot more compression than a complicated crowd shot or a bunch of flower .

How does the resulting footage look ? canyon was ineffectual to show us any video come out of this camcorder at our preview session in New York , but we did see some of the HR10 ’s 12Mbps footage which looked excellent with very few compaction artifact . The upright news is that this HG10 compresses its footage even less , at a rate of 15Mbps , so it ’ll probably look even better . Even at that 12Mbps compressing pace we saw , it looked every fleck as good as HDV footage , which compresses at 25Mbps . It was some crispy - white HD video , unusually sharp with excellent color saturation and accuracy . self-aggrandizing quarter round - up .

This HG10 is recording in 1080i HD , at 1440×1080 at all compression configurations . As is the event with most 1080i camcorder , only 1440 pixels per scanline are drop a line to disc to relieve distance , anamorphically stuff from this HG10 ’s 1920×1080 sensors to 1440×1080 on magnetic disc , and then stretched back out for the full 1920x1080i when it ’s played back .

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Canon also uses “ super range optical figure stabilization , ” which utilise a gyro sensor that detects question , and sends a signal to a C.P.U. that severalize a lens - shifting element to move . Then a mainframe break down the image , and if it ascertain the frame could be even more stable , it ship a signal back to the lens to pick off it further . It ’s an optical system , but it has a unique power to feed back even more info in a second pass of stabilisation . The result is good stabilisation of gamey - frequency didder as other system can do , but also stabilisation of subtle bridge player movements .

Overall , this looks like a gravid new camcorder from Canon . Its AVCHD format is lastly becoming more widely accepted , too , with Apple ’s Final Cut Pro redaction software now compatible with the format , along with the excellent Windows video redaction software Sony Vegas Pro 7e . Unfortunately , Adobe has n’t jumped on the AVCHD bandwagon yet , but Adobe officials say us they were feverishly work on it . Adobe is plan to include AVCHD documentation with future updates of Premiere Pro CS3 , which we hope will trickle down to Premiere Elements . But you could still edit this camcorder ’s footage without buying any more software , at least on the PC — Canon said a version of the Windows - only Corel ( formerly Ulead ) VideoStudio 11 will be included with this HG10 camcorder .

Canon says the HG10 will be priced at $ 1299 , and will embark in other October in the United States .

Lesdilley