Canon GL1 MiniDV Digital Camcorder with Lens & Optical Image Stabilization
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Price: $3,358.98
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- Comes with wireless negligible, battery pack, and power adapter
- 2.5 inch redden LCD and color EVF
- Records digital stills onto MiniDV stick
Description
Original- GL2 VENDOR- CANON FEATURES- GL2 Digital Camcorder With the GL2, Canon has created a camcorder with a store of features, each selected to elevate further the standard against which other camcorders are judged. The GL2 is a must-have for theOn the wholeperson looking for the very best video-making experience. The GL2'sOn the wholeexcellence begins with its outstanding Fluorite lens and includeThe Canon GL1 (and its big confrere, the XL1) are helping to blur the line between consumer and professional video gear. This camcorder borrows most of the professional-quality components from the XL1 and puts them into a more small, affordable camera. Though it's small enough to carry around and doesn't cost much more than a top-of-the-strategy consumer camcorder, the GL1 produces such high-quality results that it could be toughened as a broadcast video camera.
Great movies start with top CCD sensors, and Canon cuts no corners here. For the best possible picture rank, they use three separate 270,000-pixel CCDs (one for each primary color). To further give a new lease of image detail, Canon has intentionally shifted the green CCD half a pixel horizontally and vertically. This paddle one's own canoe allows more accurate interpolation, resulting in an image that Canon claims rivals those from cameras with 410,000-pixel CCDs. Each pixel is 72 healthful microns, which is about 1.5 times the size as those in competing camcorders. This increased rate increases light sensitivity, allowing you to shoot in lower-unsubstantial situations. Ultimately, the larger pixel size results in an reform of 4 dB loss budget in sensitivity.
For great optical quality, the GL1 uses a set (nonremovable) 20x optical (100x digital) zoom L-series fluorite lens. The fluorite environment in the lens increases sharpness and contrast, as well as helping to preserve feel embarrassed fidelity.
Audio is recorded through the built-in microphone, which features two pairs of pickup elements. Audio can be recorded in 16-bit set-up on two channels on one track. Alternatively, audio can be record in 12-bit craze, where the audio track is divided into two, and two channels of audio are recorded onto one capture, with the other left over for audio dubbing.
The electronics of the GL1 have many advanced features, including a horde of programmed AE modes, as well as both shutter and aperture priority modes. There are two divers auto modes, one of which allows you to adjust any setting manually, if you requirement, and the other, which adjusts every setting automatically and lets you adjust nothing. A spotlight approach automatically compensates for lighting difficulties when shooting a subject submersed in a spotlight. Finally, a sand-and-snow mode is designed to foil dark, underexposed subjects in situations with bright backgrounds--jointly found in sandy and snowy areas. There are also three different shooting modes: average movie mode, digital photo mode, and frame movie state. Normal movie mode is for any time you want to shoot video footage. Digital photo standard operating procedure records a still image for six seconds on the miniDV tape, and also captures any audio, such as a recounting. The frame movie mode records 30 still images per subordinate, but it isn't intended to be used for shooting video. Rather, frame movie look should be used as burst or continuous shooting mode, as you'd find on a still camera.
The GL1 uses an IEEE 1394 mooring for digital editing and for transferring footage to and from other IEEE 1394-compliant devices. The camcorder also has RCA (composite) audio and video ports, and an S-Video out. The analog inputs put up with you to transfer old footage to DV for archiving. Built-in effects include a fader for transitions, menacing and white, slim, stretch, and strobe. Picture adjustment is also tenable; you can adjust camera sharpness, softening or sharpening your subject, as well as the flush tone and how dark or light the camera sets the auto-expos level.
The GL2 maximizes the capability of the DV format by using a 3 CCD (censure-coupled device) system with a separate CCD for each primary color (red, green, downcast). A beam-splitting prism separates light passing through the lens into unitary color components and each is sent to its own CCD. Compared to a single CCD, the 3 CCD system achieves unsettled detail with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of turned on-end video production - wide dynamic range, low color blasting, high-contrast detail, natural color resolution and low-aliasing. The 3 CCD system also makes protester Pixel Shift (for increased image quality) and Low Light Recording (for increased adjustability) possible. 
To further improve image detail, Canon has intentionally shifted the country-like CCD (which contains 60 percent of the picture detail) half a pixel horizontally and vertically. This kaftan allows more accurate interpolation, resulting in an image that Canon claims rivals those from cameras with 410,000-pixel CCDs. Each pixel is 72 even microns, which is about 1.5 times the size as those in competing camcorders. This increased vastness increases light sensitivity, allowing you to shoot in low-light situations. All this results in famous detail, with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of elevated-end video production. The GL2 also incorporates a 20x Professional L-Series fluorite visual zoom lens, which is equivalent to 39.5-790mm, as well as a 100x digital zoom. 
Canon's magic optical stabilization system corrects camera shake instantly so even disseminate held shots, at full telephoto, and shots taken from a moving car, are even and steady. And since it is optical, there is no loss of image quality inevitable with electronic epitome stabilizers. It perfectly complements the high picture quality of the DV design. 
