Canon updates Vixia line: HV40, HF S10/100/HF20/200

Jack Daniel Stanley said:
DVX100b kicks the Canon's asses in low light as of right now.
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as does my xl1s, over my hf11... but this HF S10/HF S100 stuff is the best cmos sensors that canon has ever put in a consumer camcorder, so we keep our fingers crossed.

better not ignore sony in any of this either, i bet that their upcoming 24Mbps camcorders are going to rock, i can't see 'em giving up all of this market share to canon.
 
Ian Slessor said:
Still, what if you could record from the HDMI pre-compression? Not likely but would be all kinds of awesome.
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Why would you think it "not likely"? Any HD camcorder with an HDMI output allows this; all you need is something like a BlackMagic Intensity card to capture the footage live. Of course, that means being tethered to a computer, but how else would you expect to capture uncompressed HD? :thumbsup:
 
I think Barry Ian was referring directly to the cam's hard drive. And i agree...that's not likely.
 
What an exciting time we are in right now! The brink...we are on the brink. Now if I could just finish that script!
 
Barry_Green said:
Why would you think it "not likely"? Any HD camcorder with an HDMI output allows this; all you need is something like a BlackMagic Intensity card to capture the footage live. Of course, that means being tethered to a computer, but how else would you expect to capture uncompressed HD? :thumbsup:
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Cool.

I did not know that.

Very nice.:thumbup:

ian

:)
 
I just picked up a Canon HV30 with a Handy35 adapter and 50mm f2 Nikon SLR lens and a Manfrotto 701 tripod. I already have Aspect HD so it is easy for me to pull down on capture, and I wanted to have the ability to archive tape of my daughter without having to download to computer unless I wanted to. The solid state seems great but I miss the ability to shoot something like a christmas party with the family and just take the tape out and store it in a nice cool place. No hard drive space, and a nice way to store family videos, but also the 24p ability and dof to allow me to start filming some shorts again.

Some of these videos of the HV30 in action sold me. I got it for 533.00 new from www.buydig.com

http://www.vimeo.com/1415388

http://www.vimeo.com/431500

http://www.vimeo.com/756506

http://www.vimeo.com/1041492

http://www.vimeo.com/1659093
 
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Matt Sconce said:
The solid state seems great but I miss the ability to shoot something like a christmas party with the family and just take the tape out and store it in a nice cool place.
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you can't go wrong for $533, but it's only fair to mention that you can shoot directly to sd cards, just like you can with tape, and the cards take up a heck of a lot less space than tape does... in fact, you can copy the entire file structure over to hdd, then back it up to another sd card, and still never approach the storage overhead that you have with tape.

still, if somebody had told me back in the hi8 days that this is where we'd be in 2009, i would have found it hard to believe.

at this rate, it won't be long before solid state memory is cheaper than hard drives.
 
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