Canon's iVIS HG10 AVCHD camcorder packs a 40GB disk

Not to be outdone by Panasonic's flurry, Canon just announced their iVIS HG10 camcorder set to roll in September. Unlike their first AVCHD recorder (the HR10) the HG10 records 1,920 x 1,080 video to a 40GB disk drive instead of a DVD platter. While the HG10 does bump recordings to 15Mbps at maximum setting (compared to the HR10's 12Mbps), the two camcorders are pretty much feature-for-feature identical right on down to the ¥140,000 (about $1,188) price tag. Fortunately, the good folks at Impress do a good side-by-side comparison with Sony's disk-based HDR-SR7/SR8 jobbies if the decision process is causing you too much grief.

[Via Impress]

[logic368 Posted Aug 1st 2007 7:19AM]

oh damn... why does canon always one up everyone else? i've been waiting for something like this for the longest time!

[BuddhaBlessed Posted Aug 1st 2007 3:12PM]

Sumimasen, eigo ga arimasu ka?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 1st 2007 11:59AM]

15 MB p/s...does that equate to about 45 minutes of video? I wonder if you could buy additional hard drives.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 2nd 2007 2:08AM]

No that is 6 hours of HD video. You mixed Mb with MB.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 2nd 2007 1:23PM]

You're absolutely right. My horrible, horrible mistake. I knew it sounded funny to me. What a newbie error, my apologies.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 2nd 2007 1:45PM]

Don't waste your money on a Hard Disk Drive Camera. If you drop it or the drive fails, the entire camera is toast. I HIGHLY recommend a flash memory card version like this Panasonic AVCHD video camera that records to SDHC memory cards.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000LO92EK/ref=ord_cart_shr/105-3683040-6310053?tag=freeplefav-20&%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

You can get an 8GB card for about $65 and it will hold 2 hours of video. PLUS, you can swap in new memory cards at any point. Can't do that with a hard drive!