The Canon LEGRIA HFG10 features a professional HD CMOS Pro Sensor and a 30mm optical wide angle lens with an 8 blade iris as seen on some of Canon's professional video cameras. It delivers outstanding HD quality with wide dynamic range even in low light situations. Offering plenty of manual and creative control the HFG10 is a perfect creaitve tool for the promising videographer. Plus you can shoot for hours with the 32GB internal memory and expand the memory capacity with the dual card slots.

Features

30mm Wide Angle f/1.8 HD Video Lens
Capture more with a 30mm optical wide angle lens delivering amazing depth of field

HD CMOS PRO Sensor for Professional Quality
Delivers superb Full HD video in low light situations with a wide dynamic range.

HD Video Lens
A 10x Optical Zoom Canon HD video lens with an 8 bladed iris for creative depth of field control.

Manual Controls
Outstanding manual controls including - Focus Ring, Custom Keys and Assignable buttons.

3.5 inch Touch Wide LCD + Viewfinder
Large High Definition LCD or the traditional viewfinder giving you the options on how you prefer to shoot.

Powered Optical Image Stabiliser
Powered IS compensates for camera shake during telephoto video capture.

Instant Auto Focus
Instantly re-focuses when subjects change even in low light situations or at low shutter speeds.

High Quality Microphone
Get quality sound capture with a built-in high quality microphone or choose from a range of optional microphones for even better sound capture.

Cinema Filters
Get creative with a broad selection of cinema style filters to expand your movie making

Technical Specifications

Video System

• Format Type: Dual Flash Memory (32GB internal + SD / SDHC / SDXC Dual Card Slot)
• Sensor: 1/3-inch, total pixels 2.37 MP Canon HD CMOS PRO sensor, pixel size 2.75µm
• Image Processor: DiG!C DV III
• Video Data: AVCHD 1080/50i. 1080/25P (Maximum AVCHD 24Mbps)
• Recording Modes: MXP 24Mbps / FXP 17Mbps / XP+ 12Mbps / SP 7Mbps / LP 5Mbps

Image Pixels

• Total Pixels: 2.37 Megapixels
• Effective Pixels: 2.07 Megapixels (Movie and Photos)

Lens

• Optical / Digital: 10x / 200x
• Focal Length: 4.25 - 42.5 mm
• Maximum Aperture: f/1.8 to f/2.8 (Iris diaphragm 8 leaves)
• Minimum Focusing Distance: 20mm (Wide), 60cm (Tele)
• 35mm equivalent focal length:Approx 30.4 - 304mm (Movie and Photos)
• Filter Diameter: 58mm
• Shutter Speed: 1/6 - 1/2,000 sec. (Maximum) / 1/2sec (Low Light Mode)
• Image Stabilizer: Optical Image Stabiliser (Powered IS and Dynamic IS)
• Lens Cover Built-in Automatic

Focusing

• Focusing Range: Auto / Manual

• Control: Auto: Face priority AF / Instant AF / Medium / Normal / TV AF

      Manual: Touch Panel / Focus Ring / Assign Buttons
  

• Face Detection: Yes

Control/Balance

• Light Metering Method: Evaluative / Centre-weighted average
• Exposure Compensation: ±12 steps
• White Balance Mode: Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H

Illumination

• Min Illumination: TBC
• Low Light Mode: Yes (1/2 sec)
• Flash: No
• Video Light: Yes (via optional external video lights VL-5, VFL-2)

LCD

• View Screen / Pixels: Widescreen 3.5" Touch TFT / 920,000 Wide View Angle & Wide colour range
• Viewfinder (Colour): 0.24" / 260,000

Filming Models & Controls

• AE Program Modes: Intelligent Auto (38 scenes) / P / TV / Av / M / SCN / CINE progressive 25P
• Scene Modes:Portrait / Sports / Snow / Beach / Sunset / Night / Low light / Spotlight / Fireworks
• Digital Effects: Auto Fade / Wipe
• Cinema-Look Filters: Cinema Standard, Vivid, Dream, Cool, Nostalgic, Sepia, Old Movies, Memory, Dramatic B&W
• Easy Web Upload: Yes with HD to SD conversion
• Other Features: Pre-Record / Relay Recording / Touch & Track (Face and Objects) / Video Snapshot / Touch Decorations / Eye-Fi compatible / Zebra Pattern / Colour Bar
• Photo Button: No (Touch Panel Operation)

Audio

• Audio Data: Dolby Digital 2-ch (AC-3 2ch). 5.1ch surround sound (via Optional SM-V1 mic)
• Audio Level Metering: Yes
• Wind Screen: Auto / Off

Video Rec on 32 GB memory

• 1920 x 1080 (MXP): 2 hour 55 minutes @ 24Mbps
• 1920 x 1080 (FXP): 4 hour 10 minutes @ 17Mbps
• 1440 x 1080 (XP+): 5 hour 45 minutes @ 12Mbps
• 1440 x 1080 (SP): 9 hour 35 minutes @ 7Mbps
• 1440 x 1080 (LP): 12 hour 15 minutes @ 5Mbps

Power

• Battery: BP808
• Quick Start/Power Save: Yes, linked with LCD
• Built-in Charger: Yes

Interface

• Terminals: USB 2.0 Hi Speed / mini HDMI / Component output / AV output
• Accessory Shoe: Yes
• Operating Platforms: PC: Windows XP SP2/SP3, Vista (including SP1/SP2), Windows 7

Mac: OS X 10.4 to 10.6

• Application Software: Pixela ImageMixer 3 SE Software (PC only: Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1/SP2, Windows 7)

General

• Search: Date / Index / Timeline / 3D Flip
• Dimensions W x H x D: 77 x 78 x 151mm