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First Look: Canon HF10

Friday April 11, 2008
Written by Daniel Long
Tags: Canon | HF10
AUD
$1699
Price at time of review.
Canon are only the second manufacturer in the Australian market to provide a flash based video camera (Panasonic is the other). Daniel Long gives his first impressions.
Storage: Flash - SD / SDHC + 16GB Built In; Sensor: 1/3.2" CMOS (3.31 MP); Video: AVCHD 1080/50i. 1080/25P; 12x optical zoom, 200x digital zoom; Image Stabilisation; exposure compensation: ±11 steps via joystick; LED Video Light; Widescreen 2.7" LCD; Dolby Digital 2-ch (AC-3 2ch); Avg 55min, Max 90min, Intelligent Battery; Ports: USB 2.0 Hi Speed / mini HDMI / Component output / AV output / Microphone /Headphone; Dimensions (whd): 73 x 64 x 129; 430grams
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Comments: 3
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xaviergisz
Jun 22, 2008 4:35 PM
 Three small complaints about this camera:
-I found removing the SD card was very difficult (actually requires tweezers or something similar).
-a HDMI-mini cable is not provided.
-I haven't got the editing software provided with the camera to work (this may be because my computer needs an upgrade).

Otherwise a nice little camera


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First Look: Canon HF10?
Canon are only the second manufacturer in the Australian market to provide a flash based video camera (Panasonic is the other). Daniel Long gives his first impressions.

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geller
Jun 23, 2008 12:55 PM
 That's the flash card camera right? What's the storage capacity like? I'm curious about moving to flash - can you get 2 hours of video without swapping cards?
RockyOne
Jul 15, 2008 7:43 PM
 Sorry xav... Can't agree on card prob.. Just tried mine.. As per most SDHC & other ones, just press card into slot lightly and it pops right out, so even those who shamefully, chew their nails (not implying you do) can grab the card easily. Re HDMI cables, many of us won't even use one, so why bundling it in at an added cost? We just slot the card into a card reader (cheap as old boots now, thanks to China) and load up into our edit software, Final Cut Pro/Express, iMovie etc.. Hope you enjoy your adventure with this beautiful little cam.\:d/
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