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Canon HF10 High Definition Camcorder - 12x Optical Zoom with 2.7" Widescreen Multi-angle Vivid LCD | 
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| Brand: Canon
Category: CE
Buy New: £549.99
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 597
Media: Electronics
Optical Zoom: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 7.1 x 6.4
MPN: 2574B006AA
Model: 2574B006AA
EAN: 8714574516141
ASIN: B0012BC054
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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HF10 -The Best so Far!!! December 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was contemplating about buying a camcorder for a while & settled for the Canon HF10-not minding the price tag. And boy, what a choice that turned out to be! It is everything you'd expect from a consumer camcorder. I cannot fault it in any way. It has settings for most recording conditions you'd find yourself in. Software is spot on. I was able to write DVD on my Vista within 2 days of purchase(just to be sure every thing's working OK). However, be informed that AVCHD only supports DVD -R. I had loads of DVD +R which are now useless to me. An extra battery should suffice for those heavy users- I am not, so don't need it. charging time is quick too. Camcorder feels really sleek in my hand and the stills are better than most with a reasonable 3.2MP lens. I am better equipped with additional 16GB SDHC card which I reckon will go on for as long as I want. The joy stick & instruction manual are straight forward & easy to follow. I think this is an excellent piece of kit that will give a special touch to those special family or personal moments. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Amazon did a great job of delivery 2 days after I placed the order, in time for Xmas -excellent!
Best HD camcorder by far December 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bought this HD camcorder begining of November so i can capture my son's second birthday, and the picture quality is amazing. I wasn't even watching via a mini hd, i just took the sd card and pluged it straight into my blue ray player. The sound and picture is as good as watching a hd movie. Make sure you use a class 6 sd card for ultimate results. The manual is so easy to follow and everything is where is suppose to be. The quality of this camcorder is excellent. Canon was late on the game in HD camcorders, but was worth the wait. At the moment this camcorder is the best by far.
Fantastic Product August 8, 2008
44 out of 45 found this review helpful
I did quite a bit of research before buying this product (I actually bought a HF100 which is identical apart from the lack of built-in memory) and was very encouraged by all of the glowing reviews, all of which seemed to say that this is the best of the bunch of current consumer HD camcorders. My experience with the product has largely confirmed these verdicts. The camera is compact, a joy to handle, and produces pretty good results in almost all circumstances, except low light conditions.
The only significant downside is that the battery life with the standard battery is less than ideal. When fully charged it promises about 60mins of usage, but this is reduced by using the standby facility to more like 40mins or so of active filming. I would recommend the purchase of a second standard or extended life battery if this is going to be an issue.
Another thing to beware of is that although the sound quality from the built-in microphone is generally excellent, it is prone to overloading in a very unpleasant way in the presence of loud sounds (such as near to the stage at WOMAD, which is where I belatedly discovered this problem!). I don't know why it doesn't have some sort of limited to guard against this problem. You can alter the sensitivity of the mic, which should address the problem, but you need to be monitoring the sound with headphones at the time of recording to know that this is necessary.
Editing with iMovie on an Apple MacBook is very straightforward with no issues whatsoever like any Apple product - it just works. As one other reviewer has mentioned, you do get a warning dialog when you first start transferring to the Mac, but this is simply a standard warning for any 1080i video which gives you the option of importing at full or quarter resolution, and warns you that full resolution will use more disk space and take longer (what a surprise!).
A word on the choice between the HF10 and HF100. I would always choose the HF100 (without the built-in flash memory) as the built-in memory is much more expensive than buying a couple of 8GB SD cards (I got mine for about 16 each - make sure you get Class 6 speed). Also, SD cards can be put into a flash card reader and the transfer speed of these (assuming you get a relatively decent one) is much faster than the camera itself via USB2, which is the only way of transferring video from the built-in memory. I personally feel the flexibility of the cards is much better than the built-in memory, and I just can't envisage any reason why the built-in memory might be better.
All in all I am extremely pleased with this product and feel confident that I have chosen well for my camcorder for the next few years. The last one lasted seven years before I felt that things had moved on enough to make it worthwhile changing - I wonder what will be around in another seven years?
Canon HF10 High Definition Camcorder - user review June 21, 2008
44 out of 44 found this review helpful
Bought this about a month ago to replace my old DV tape camcorder that's a few years old now. First of all the size....its small as it does not have a hard disc drive and relies on in built flash memory (16gb) that is good enough for 2hrs to capture HD quality movie or 6hrs at lesser resolution. You can capture data on a SDHC card and potentially add a further 16gb.
I am one of the few without a HD TV yet but even on a standard CRT TV the HD picture is simply amazing. There is a simple one button setup if you do not want to play with individual settings but even that is pretty easy to manipulate and use. Transfering the recorded pictures to DVD is fairly straight forward....if you like me are not into fancy editing and are initally careful about what you are recording then a 'dump' on to a DVD is easy but you will need a good spec PC to handle the data. Stills are captured at 3M pixles though I for one will rely on my Canon ixus 960iS to do that.
In summary am really pleased with my purchase..I looked at other brand comparable HD camcorders but the Canon HF10 is the best in my opinion for the price ...and flash memory is the way of the future.
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