Canon DC100 Digital Camcorder

The Canon DC100 delivers great video and makes it easy to capture the precious moments in your life. Canon digital camcorders include the latest advancement, a sophisticated and powerful DVD camcorders. The DC100 digital camcorder gives you all the convenience and functionality of DVD technology while letting you record directly to DVDs. With this innovative line, you experience all the image quality, convenience and compatibility of DVDs, in sleek and compactly designed camcorders. Get all the convenience and functionality of recording and sharing your videos with DVD technology. Shoot and share video through a variety of options. Only 3 inch (8cm) in diameter, the DC100's DVD-R & DVD-RW discs are compatible with most DVD players. With the DC100's DVD technology, you no longer have to worry about mistakenly taping over a once-in-a-lifetime piece of footage. You simply shoot, and the DC100 ensures that you are recording onto a blank part of the DVD. The DC100's DVD functionality also makes it possible for you to review your footage quickly and easily without the bother of rewind or fast-forward searching. With the camcorder's Visual Index, you can review your footage at a glance and play the selection you want. You can even select shots and arrange them into a playlist. The DC100 comes with a 25x optical zoom lens, precisely matched to the camcorder's CCD and featuring high-quality glass with a unique, super spectra coating developed exclusively by Canon to reduce flare and ghosting for a clean image

Product Features
* Digital video camera that records straight to 3-inch DVD-R/RW media
* 25x optical zoom with built-in image stabilizer; 2.7-inch LCD screen
* Canon's DIGIC DV image processor for vivid video and exceptional color quality
* Widescreen Button lets you switch from standard 4:3 to 16:9 Widescreen Mode
* Level Shot Control provides horizontal gridlines in the viewfinder for more professional framing

Product Specification
* Model number: DC100
* Image sensor: 1/6-inch CCD, approximately 680,000 pixels
* Effective still image resolution: Approximately 450,000 pixels
* Effective movie resolution: Approximately 340,000 pixels (4:3), 450,000 pixels (16:9 with image stabilization off), 400,000 pixels (16:9 with image stabilization on)
* Maximum recording time: Single-sided 1.4 GB: 20 minutes (XP), 30 minutes (SP), 60 minutes (LP); double-sided 2.8 GB: 40 minutes (XP), 60 minutes (SP), 120 minutes (LP)
* Lens: f=2.6 to 65 millimeters, f1.8
* Minimum illumination: 2 lux using night mode
* Recommended illumination: More than 100 lux
* Viewfinder: 0.3-inch TFT color, approximately 123,000 pixels
* LCD screen: 2.7-inch TFT color, approximately 112,000 pixels
* Recording media: DVD-R/RW
* Audio: Dolby Digital 2-channel (AC-3 2-channel)
* Digital video features: DIGIC DV, level shot control, smooth zoom control
* Zoom: 25x optical and 1000x digital
* Aspect ratio: True 16:9 widescreen
* Supported languages: English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Italian, Polish and Thai
* Dimensions: 2.4 x 3.4 x 5.0 inches / 60 x 87 x 126 millimeters (W x H x D) excluding protrusions
* Weight: 14.5 ounces / 410 grams (not including lens and battery pack)
* What's in the box: DC100 camcorder, CA-570 compact power adapter, BP-208 battery pack, STV-250 stereo/video cable.

Cheap Digital Video Camera - Camcorders

By Max Bellamy

There are various formats of camcorders www.smarter.com available in the market. The main ones are DV CAM, DV PRO and Mini DV. Out of these, DV CAM and DV PRO are in analogue formats while Mini DV is in digital format; it records video and sound on the tape digitally.

The Mini DV was made keeping in mind both the amateur and the serious enthusiast. Mini DV camcorders are hence the cheapest camcorders on the market.

What is however surprising is that it is also perhaps the best of the three formats, for a variety of reasons, the most important being that it is digital. What this means is that there is no noise introduced to the media. Additionally, since the recording is digital, the quality does not decrease over time. Also, copies of an original, keeping specified standards in mind, do no show a loss in quality like it does in analogue media. The digital format also shows a higher horizontal resolution than other consumer grade analogue camcorders.

Almost every format today, be it for sound, pictures or video, is digital. Thus having a digital format allows one the flexibility to convert, transfer, copy and store the media in a way that one wants. Hence, for most uses Mini DV camcorders are the cheapest and the best option.

There are many companies that make such cheap camcorders. Some companies that instantly come to mind are Sony, Panasonic and JVC. Sony was among the first to mass-market cheap camcorders; it still enjoys the lead position in the camcorder market today.

Among all the models of Sony Mini DV format, the Sony DCR-TRV17 is the cheapest. Sony also makes cheaper Digital 8 model of camcorders but Mini DV is the format that holds the most video. It is a compact and universal format.

While going in for a cheap camcorder, one needs to choose a format that is popular. From this point of view, it may be said that Mini DV has become an industry standard and is indisputably the most commonly used format for digital video. It is hence a good buy for anyone wanting a cheap camcorder.

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