Canon announces new iVIS DVD camcorders

by Donald Melanson, posted Jan 31st 2007 at 1:59PM

Canon may not have been able to keep its new HV20 HD camcorder under wraps, but it seems to have fared better with its announcement of this new pair of DVD camcorders in its iVIS line, revealing details on them on its own terms. The iVIS DC50 looks to be the more capable of the two, with a 5 megapixel CCD, 10x optical zoom, 2.7-inch widescreen LCD, and a miniSD slot, although it appears to be for still pictures only. The iVIS DC200 takes things down a notch to a 680,000 pixel CCD, but increases the optical zoom to 35x, with the camcorder packing the same 2.7-inch widescreen display and still picture-only miniSD slot. Look for both to hit Japan sometime next month, with the DC50 expected to come in around 100,000 Yen ($830) and the DC200 running about 60,000 Yen ($500).

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Tags: camcorder, canon, dc200, dc50, dvd camcorder, DvdCamcorder, ivis

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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ELQ @ Jan 31st 2007 8:51PM

Thank god for HDMI and mic-in. Canon now offers what the users wanted from the previous model.

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WillTheSecond @ Feb 1st 2007 3:41PM

Pft... give me miniDV any day. If you want home movies, then sure, these are fine, but HDD (eventually and MiniDV (for the moment) are the way to go.

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