Canon FS10 Flash Memory Camcorder with 8GB Internal Flash Memory and 48x Advanced Zoom
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Manufacturer: CanonRelease Date: 2009-11-30
Model: FS10
Product features:
- Capture video to 8 GB hard drive or SDHC cards
- 48x Advanced Zoom; image stabilizer
- Widescreen HR recording
- 2.7-inch widescreen LCD
- USB 2.0 compatible for fast file transfer
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon FS10 Flash Memory Camcorder with 8GB Internal Flash Memory and 48x Advanced Zoom
Customer Review: My Experiences With the Canon FS10, Mac w/iMovie 08, and DW-100 stand alone burner are Great
Summary: 5 Stars
I did lots of research, and am happy I chose this one. I got this for my wife for Christmas08, so we have lots of experience with it now to review. I also realize there are newer options on the market now to consider before you make your purchase. If your expectations are for perfection in video, then buy something costing three to five times more. For my needs and expectations as a sophisticated hobbyist, the FS10/FS11/FS100 is exactly perfect price vs performance ratio.
If you are going digital, why would you buy a camera with a hard drive (HDD) or a mini-DVD burner on board? A HUGE point of failure and battery suck. In my opinion, with the low-cost SDHC (SD HighCapacity), this solid-state camera technology is the ONLY way to go. Before you buy HDD/Mini-DV, see what steps and time you have to go through to get video on your computer, edit it, and burn a DVD. Makes some other reviewer complaints on this camera pale.
FS10 FS11 and the FS100 are identical except they have different amounts of memory. To me the FS10 is the sweetspot. Enough onboard memory to be functional, then copy over to the SDHC for redundancy (corruption happens) and to quickly pop into a cardreader on my computer. OR use multiple SDHC's for high capacity or redundancy til you download to your computer or make your DVD. Show me someone who is committed to ALWAYS having data in two places, and I will show you someone who has felt the pain of lost data (damaged/corrupted SDHC/hard-drive-crash, motherboard failure, etc).
My wife and I do not have an HD TV to view High Def on, and the files are HUGE. I will start looking at HD in another 5 years. No Hurry. I've got a great looking Panasonic TV that has lots more years in it. So, for what we want this Canon FS10 is ideal.
My wife likes her camera, so it was a great gift. I have used it too, and I really like it. The coup de gras was at my brother-in-law's retirement-party and wedding where I shot lots of footage. I burned a bunch of DVD's for folks to take home with them, from the raw footage on the camera straight to the DW-100 stand alone burner. The footage looked GREAT when we viewed it on TV and a standard DVD player. Received lots of unsolicited positive compliments about the appearance of the recordings. Said it looked semi-professional.
NOTE: I was using the highest-quality setting, NOT the default setting it comes out of the box with. The highest quality setting makes a little larger file, which consumes your memory a little faster, but the result IS WORTH IT, if you are shooting archival footage. For just average video or to throw something up on Youtube, the lowest quality smallest-filesize setting will work fine. You probably don't even need the middle quality setting.
MUCH of our wedding recording was shot in pretty low light (think the inside of a dimly lit church). I can only assume that the persons posting problems shooting in low light either 1)have different settings on their camera (I am using the EASY BUTTON!) or 2) The got a lemon of a camera, or 3) they have unreasonable expectations of how low light that they can/should shoot video under.
I saw that the image on the flip-out screen while I was recording, did look grainy, and showed a lot of shake while I was recording. BUT the processed image did not show as much grain in low light, or as much shake, when replayed on the big screen tv. It even kept the wide-screen format of the camera recording when viewing on tv, as black bars were present above and below the image on the tv screen.
Connection to my wife's Mac is simple, as long as you have iMovie 08 or newer (09). See more here: [...] The only reason to put it in iMovie is to edit. If you don't need to edit in or edit out portions within scenes or sounds, or don't want to make the time or hassle to edit, just burn straight to DW-100 stand alone burner. Haven't tried downloading videos directly to my pc laptop.
My only complaint about the DW-100 stand alone burner is that it is MUCH larger than I expected, and I believe MUCH larger than it needed to be. The camera is so tiny, I expected the DW-100 stand alone burner to be small also. Don't expect the DW-100 stand alone burner to fit in your other pocket. But if you simply use an inexpensive Power Inverter in your car, you can take videos in remote locations, and send DVD's home with all your friends/family after events like concerts, plays, weddings, family reunions...etc. Logically, instead of considering a video recorder that makes on-board DVD's (actually mini-DVD's), the DW-100 stand alone burner is a MUCH more functional, convenient, and elegant solution. The on-board models suck MUCH more battery life, are prone to failure due to many more moving parts, and by necessity must be much larger/bulkier.
The grainy-ness and camera shake looked bad on the screen as I shot video. But looked great after on DVD. I have not seen the types of poor video complaints of some other reviewers. I wonder if some reviewers are seeing compression artifacts of repeated recompression of editing? Don't know what they are using. I use iMovie 08, so far, so good.
I recommend using two hands to help stabilize...I mean the left hand/fingers grasping the viewscreen, especially at max zoom. The intelligent anti-shake can only do so much. The camera is so tiny that it WILL move with every movement of your shaky hand. It does not have the bulk and mass of a big VHS camcorder to stabilize it. Remember the tiny size and weight are a feature, and if that feature appeals to you, you must be mindful to hold it steady when shooting. I think a uni-pod (like a hiking staff, smaller/lighter than a tripod) is ideal.
*Tiny size, fits in my palm, and in my front pants pocket. Amazing.
*Fast-on, and EASY BUTTON are convenient.
*Battery life is excellent.
*The DW-100 stand alone burner is not cheap, but it is a really nice and convenient guilty pleasure (although bigger than wanted/necessary). Think of it like this: It's like buying a miniDV video camera with the DVD-writer portion separate, which gives you greater camera battery life, lets you use cheap standard widely-available DVD-R (compared to expensive and fewer-minutes on miniDV), fewer moving parts in the camera to break, tremendous reliability against disc-write errors due to jarring or drops.
*Make SURE if you use the DW-100 stand alone burner for recording, that your DVD-R's are VERBATIM brand for greatest reliability.
*I expect long-life and reliability because there are so few moving parts (no hard-drive HDD, no miniDV burner, just a zoom lens).
*The stabilization feature worked well (just don't expect miracles).
*The lowest-light shots were a touch grainy but not nearly as bad as expected after reading some bad reviews (again I used the highest quality setting, and Easy Button). The focus was sometimes in/out when in low light and extreme zoom. If you need NO GRAIN, and PERFECT FOCUS, get a big light, or spend a LOT more on a different camera.
*Mac compatible for simple/easy editing in iMovie 08 or newer.
*Uses standard removable media SDHC (why would you buy one that didn't? OR that had only built-in and none removable?).
*I don't know about still-photos. Didn't buy it for that. But I imagine it would work in a pinch...hey, most folks use the camera on their cell phone for crying-out-loud.
*Dual memory: Onboard memory plus SDHC. Redundancy to guard against data loss, unlimited capacity using removable SDHC, and quick/easy download to computer using card-readers(at least on a Mac via iMovie 08 or later).
*Excellent zoom.
*Do make SURE any SDHC card you buy has a speed class 2 or higher. If you can not confirm that specification, keep looking. The manual also recommends to stick with Sandisk, Panasonic, or Toshiba brand cards.
*Make SURE any card reader you intend to use to read SDHC cards directly to your computer (as as a fast and convenient option/alternative to the usb connection) are specifically able to read the HighCapicity version (SDHC vs SD). Good SDHC card readers are available for [...] dollars.
I've already gone on very long. I will post a comment that has LOTS of additional information gleaned from snippets that hundreds of other reviewers have posted. I hope you find it helpful.
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Description of Canon FS10 Flash Memory Camcorder with 8GB Internal Flash Memory and 48x Advanced Zoom
Canon FS10 Standard Definition 8GB Flash Memory Camcorder From their long history of optical excellence, advanced image processing, superb performance and technological innovation in photographic and broadcast television cameras comes the Canon FS10 Standard Definition 8GB Flash Memory Camcorder! With the light, compact Canon FS10, you can have stunning video with the ease and numerous benefits of flash memory. Canon offers the best in flash memory with their Dual Flash Memory technology. Record to both the camcorder's 8GB internal memory and a removable SD/SDHC card, extending your available recording space and offering added flexibility in file transfer and playback. The Canon FS10 Standard Definition 8GB Flash Memory Camcorder is just the thing for catching more of your life's most special moments! Specifications 1/6" CCD image sensor 2.7" widescreen 123K LCD display Aspect ratio: 16:9 widescreen 1152x864 maximum resolution 8GB internal flash memory SD/SDHC memory card slot Zoom ratio: 48x advanced zoom (16:9 mode), 37x optical zoom, and 2000x digital zoom Zoom speed: Variable, 3 fixed zoom speeds Focal Length: f=2.6-96.2mm Minimum focusing distance: 10 mm (wide)/1m (tele) Programmed AE: Auto, Program, TV, Portrait, Sports, Night, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Spotlight, and Fireworks White balance: Daylight, Tungsten, Auto, and Manual Electronic image stabilization Audio: Dolby Digital 2ch (AC-3 2) 3.5 mm Stereo mini-jack microphone terminal USB 2.0 out Includes Lithium coin battery (CR2025) Battery pack (BP-808) Wireless controller (WL-D88) Compact power adapter (CA-590) Stereo video cable (STV-250N) Wrist strap (WS-30) AC cable Interface cable Pixela ImageMixer 3SE disc Digital video solutions disc for Windows and Macintosh Dimens 2.4"H x 4.9"D x 2.3"W Weight: 9.2 oz. Vendor warranty: One yearCamcorders
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