Capture up to 12 hours of HD video to a 32GB internal Flash drive as well as directly to removable SDHC memory cards
Genuine Canon 15x HD video lens; DIGIC DV III image processor
3.89 MP Full HD CMOS image sensor; 1920 x 1080 Full HD recording
SuperRange Optical Image Stabilizer; Genuine Canon Face Detection
HDMI terminal for easy, one-cable connectivity to your HDTV
This review is from: Canon VIXIA HF20 HD Dual Flash Memory w/32GB Internal Memory & 15x Optical Zoom - 2009 MODELI bought the HF10 from Amazon and love it; its amazing. The HF20 is the next generation of that camera line and it produces .MTS file format (AVCHD) high-definition files. I just want to warn all perspective buyers that what they state in the Pixela software manual about the minimum requirements in order to actually be able to watch/ edit the highest-res video that comes off this camera are true and cannot be ignored: I have a Pentium 4 @ 3.6Ghz and 2 GB RAM and a PCIx video card and it is not good enough to play the video back smoothly (using Pixela software player) wihtout dropping frames ! The amount of system or video RAM is not the key; you MUST have either a fast Pentium "D" class or a Pentium Core 2 Duo (at least) processor (with matching motherboard w/ Intel chipset) or you can't really play/edit the highest res of video that comes out of this camera! (Note that my PC can archive the video to hard drive, DVD etc , just not smoothly playback and edit). Playback and editing may be possible on a lesser system but the performace will leave you unhappy most likely. Hope this helps with your search....
This review is from: Canon VIXIA HF20 HD Dual Flash Memory w/32GB Internal Memory & 15x Optical Zoom - 2009 MODELFunctionally this camera is fantastic....lightweight, small and has incredible image quality. Well laid out controls. Just a caution is that most people will not be able to actually make use of its outstanding image quality without a Blu-ray burner and Blu-ray player as in iMovie and many other programs the quality is imported at a reduced quality and you cannot burn HD quality movies on regular DVD's. This is not this camera's fault however as all HD cameras are more technologically advanced than most people presently can make use of.My main gripe however, and why I subtracted one star, is in an otherwise incredibly engineered camera Canon used the "mini advanced accessory shoe" and NOT the "advanced accessory shoe" (and it took me about 15 minutes to discover there were two different kinds of shoes...who would have even imagined there could be two different kinds of accessory shoes for consumer products!!?). First this mini shoe is I believe only on a very few products and needless to say it is NOT compatible with anything using the "advanced accessory shoe". I found this out when I obviously mistakenly ordered the DM-50 microphone which does not fit.The mini shoe is a stupid idea in the first place, and more importantly Canon has intentionally engineered INcompatibility within their own product lines. Something like microphones, lights, flashes, etc should be cross compatible across all of their product lines and, if you own other Canon products, would, for example, force you to buy almost identical duplicates of accessories because you could not use them on different Canon cameras. Why they did this is something that defies understanding.Take Home Message: Choose you accessories carefully!...
This review is from: Canon VIXIA HF20 HD Dual Flash Memory w/32GB Internal Memory & 15x Optical Zoom - 2009 MODELVideo from HF20 is too good. Connected the camera to my 1080p TV, with a $5.00 HDMI cable, I could not believe the video quality.My grip is about the night shots, captured video is too noisy. The still images are also bad in low light. I know it does auto focus by sensing the reflected beam of IR or something from the subject. But in low light it seems to get lost or takes a long time.I have still not used the software provided by Canon. Windows Vista does not recognize .mts files. So I got Window-7 RC and it works great, as soon as the camera was connected to PC, Win-7 started copying the .mts and .jpg files to hard drive, then played them....
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