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

by Thomas Ricker, posted Aug 1st 2007 at 4:09AM

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]

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Tags: avchd, camcorder, canon, hg10, ivis, ivis hg10, IvisHg10

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Joe Smith @ 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!

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HektikLyfe @ 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.

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allspam @ Aug 2nd 2007 2:08AM

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

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HektikLyfe @ 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.

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Kelly Nair @ Aug 1st 2007 3:12PM

Sumimasen, eigo ga arimasu ka?

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Joe @ 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!

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