A new Canon in the family
My Canon collection grew today with the addition of this lovely Canon HF100. It is an HD camcorder that records to SDHC memory cards. No tapes, no spinning hard-drives and no DVDs. Size wise it is close to a can of Coke in your hand and a bit lighter. The quality seems excellent though I’ve really only seen it piped out via component cable to my Sony HD television. I need to get a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable tomorrow to get the full HD experience.
The memory-card may be a great idea but AVCHD is a difficult format, especially on Mac. So far I’ve managed to half-play some clips and unreliably convert them to MPEG4 using VLC (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.) I’ve ordered Final Cut Express which supports AVCHD but that hasn’t arrived yet and since I don’t even have iMovie on my MacBook Pro I can’t use VoltaicHD. The video software that comes with the HF100 is Windows only, not very helpful.
So that brings my Canon collection to; Canon EOS 300v, Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8, Canon EOS 20D, Canon IXUS 860 IS and this Canon HF 100.
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