all articles tagged 'AVCHD'

Canon U.S.A. introduces the EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera featuring 1920×1080 HD video capture

Josh’s bottom line:

This still camera is exciting because it has a single large CMOS imaging sensor, which means the depth-of-field is similar to a film camera rather than a typical camcorder with small chips.

And it records Quicktime 1080p HD at 30 fps, around 48 minutes to a 16 GB card, or, output through HDMI (no audio though) to a portable recording device (which one?). The format is H.264 at 38.6 Mbits/sec, which should look amazing.

And, the low light performance looks great. It will be around $3500 with one lens, more as you add lenses.

There …



Three new HD AVC format camcorders from Canon

cCanon announced the VIXIA HF11 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder, and the VIXIA HG21 and VIXIA HG20 Hard Disk Drive camcorders.

The newest members to the VIXIA HD camcorder family incorporate 24Mbps bit rate recording - the highest possible bit rate in the AVCHD format.

The VIXIA HF11 Dual Flash Memory camcorder can record up to 12 hours of High-Definition video to a 32GB internal Flash drive, as well as record directly to a removable SDHC card for expanded recording time.

The VIXIA HG21 and VIXIA HG20 camcorders feature 120GB and 60GB Hard Disk Drives, respectively, for recording …