Canon SCA60 Soft Carrying Case for most Canon Camcorders
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Manufacturer: Canon VideoModel: SC-A60
Product features:
- Professional-looking soft carrying case
- Designed for Optura 300, Optura Xi, Optura20, and Optura10
- Accessory compartments
- Genuine leather
- Sturdily constructed for years of use
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon SCA60 Soft Carrying Case for most Canon Camcorders
Customer Review: Exceeds expecations
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm new to video, but very particular that things work a certain way. I studied the different technologies for camcorders (flash, hard drive, tape...) and took a flyer on the hard drive technology. The key thing for me was easy transfer to PC for editing. And I have an audio flash recorder that just came back from warranty repair, so I'm a little cool on flash at the moment. It does have a built-in flash slot, primarily for holding photos, but you can shoot video to the flash, and photos to the hard drive. No restrictions either way, but they do warn you to get a flash SD card rated at a certain high speed if you intend to record video direct to flash. You can also shoot photos while in video mode - works like a champ.
They had me at "hello". The first intuitive setup feature -- what size FONT would you like -- small / LARGE. I picked LARGE due to my failing eyesight. FINALLY - someone in the digital world gets it -- stupid cell phone makers think everyone has the eyesight of a 13-year-old and can read mouse print on a grainy LCD screen. Thank you Canon for thinking about this.
The joystick control on the video panel is excellent. I have a little concern down the road that repeated use will wear it out, but for now it seems sturdy. Menus were intuitive. Settings (with a little explanation from the excellent printed manual - though they manual is in small font - they should make a large-print edition) were also intuitive once the symbols were explained. And it remembers your settings between power-downs. This is key.
Zoom - I wanted the best optical zoom I could get, but this camera only had 10x vs others which had 12 or 15x. It has digital zoom from 40 - 200x. Didn't want the graininess from digital zoom, until I tried it. If you select 40x digital zoom, you get optical zoom for the first 10x. Then it seamlessly kicks into digital mode for 11x - 40x. NO GRAININESS until you get very close to a subject. Then I tried the 200x -- still awesome technology - yes the graininess kicks in, but I was able to read a Schubert piano score, note by note, two rooms away.
There are multiple settings for zoom speed, so you can push the zoom lever full throttle, and it will only zoom at the max speed you've set. This is a great feature that avoids all jumpiness and fast-unfocused-zoom you get with amateur shots.
External mic input - also excellent. I have not used the built-in mic - I only feed it with external audio, but it is flawless. I record audio separately, then feed the signal to the camera. And once forgetting to hit record on my audio equipment I thought the track was lost. Until I retrieved it from the camera in all it's digital fullness. Never intended to use it as a backup audio device but it worked great.
I've played with its cinemode feature, 24fps, 30fps, 60i fps - all work great. I'm still deciding my preferred default settings, but it's by human choice, not because of any technical limitations of the camera. I film everything in HD mode, transfer in avchd format, but edit down to wide-screen DVD when done. I don't have an HD TV or blu-ray burner, so I can't comment on it's high-defness. But I bought the camera knowing someday I would get HD burning and viewing capabilities, and I wanted wide-screen, even at non-HD quality.
Transfer to PC is good. Software that comes with it is weak, but you can mount the camera as an external drive and copy files that way. The good part about the software is it knows which files have already been transferred, so you can tell it to only transfer new files.
On-camera editing is rough - the "divide" feature, which is used to split a scene, is handy but cumbersome. I like to get rid of the intros and outtros of a scene first, and only transfer the meat of the scene to PC. Once you're in this "play to splice" mode, you have to be really careful that you cut the right thing before deleting. But if you edit everything on a PC, this is a non-issue if you're OK transferring and editing larger files.
Like anything it will take some learning to get the controls down. The controls are different if you're in view, record-ready, or record mode, so you just have to be aware of different behaviors.
Camera mode - took great pictures - you can choose from many resolutions, but with a 120gb drive and flash available, no reason not to use the highest res all the time.
I got about 2 hours with the battery that comes with the unit. I purchased (2) 4-hour extended batteries from a 3rd party that are working fine.
Enough for now, but this camera had everything I wanted, and more, and I was impressed with its ease of use, clarity, and video quality. Plus it has a "drop feature" which is a setting you turn on or off -- I'm thinking - who goes around dropping their camera. It's supposed to sense a sudden change in "something" (altitude, speed, wind resistance :^) but it will safeguard the shutter and moving parts. Well I turned it on anyway. Sure enough, 3 days later as it was transferring files to my PC, my chair got stuck on the USB cable and the camera dropped 3' to the floor - with the video screen flipped open by the way. A few expletives later I crossed my fingers. If the read-heads on the drive were active during the fall -- which I think they were since I was transferring files -- the airbags must have deployed because there was absolutely no damage.
And if you're reading this on Amazon, they had the best price at the time I purchased in December 2008.
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