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It's too bad they don't have nightshot, but I can get past that.

About the wide angle problem, does anyone know why that is? That might be a deal breaker for me, since 16:9 is pretty much made for shooting WIDEscreen content (landscapes, etc...)

I'm just wondering if it's a limitation of the technology, if they tried to cram too much in, or what?]]>Aug 14th 2006 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/These are simple things all cameras should have standard by now. ]]>Aug 14th 2006 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/
No deal.]]>Aug 14th 2006 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/
I'm thinking it's just poorly written and meant to refer to the viewfinder/LCD in 16:9. That would make sense since no HD resolution is going to be very pretty on a 3" LCD]]>Aug 14th 2006 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/
from the article:

"...a really pathetic wide-angle view. Even at the most zoomed-out setting, these camcorders are zoomed in, if that makes any sense; in camera terms, its zoom range is 43 to 436 millimeters. Fitting a whole six-foot person into the frame involves backing up 15 feet, which often puts you into the street, the sea or the restroom."

bummer]]>Aug 14th 2006 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/
It's much easier to do a standard (50mm) to telephoto (300mm or so) zoom in that size package.

I "think" they could do a 24mm to 100mm pretty easily in that package or close to it but then it would only have 4x zoom which marketing would get pissed about.

Too many products' engineering is controlled by the marketing people, IMO. That's the biggest problem with any new gear.]]>Aug 14th 2006 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/
"And here we have the bottom half of the tree..."]]>Aug 15th 2006 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/hdv-showdown-canon-hv10-vs-sony-hc3/
So the newer HC3, besides being smaller, is worse than the HC1 in every other way. Given the choice I would probably go with the Canon. Also, the optical stabilisation in the Canon is much better,

However, I live in Japan, and discontinued stuff here is stuff no one wants, so I grabbed the HC1 for about 800 US and it really is a very nice camera in every way.

For those of you interested in seeing what these high def video cams can do there is a short sample of the HC1 on my web site in the travel video section. It is compressed using h.264 codec, but you can still easily see how amazing the clarity is.

peace

waddo
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