Canon GL2 MiniDV Digital Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom
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Details
- Chronicle for up to 65 minutes on one battery charge
- Conserve to MiniDV tape or MMC/SD card (8 MB SD card included)
- 2.5-inch LCD with 270-slowly rotation
Description
The Canon GL2 (like its forebear, the GL1, and its big brother, the XL1) is helping to blur the line between consumer and professional video paraphernalia. This camcorder borrows most of those cameras' professional-quality components and puts them into a more brief, affordable camera. Though it's small enough to carry around and doesn't cost much more than a top-of-the-graft consumer camcorder, the GL2 produces such high-quality results that it could be utilized as a broadcast video camera.The Canon GL2 (like its forerunner, the GL1, and its big brother, the XL1) is helping to blur the line between consumer and professional video gear. This camcorder borrows most of those cameras' professional-quality components and puts them into a more aphoristic, affordable camera. Though it's small enough to carry around and doesn't cost much more than a top-of-the-oblique consumer camcorder, the GL2 produces such high-quality results that it could be cast-off as a broadcast video camera.
The 3 CCD System
The GL2 maximizes the capability of the DV format by using a 3 CCD (sortie-coupled device) system with a separate CCD for each primary color (red, green, glum). A beam-splitting prism separates light passing through the lens into peculiar color components and each is sent to its own CCD. Compared to a single CCD, the 3 CCD system achieves on-going detail with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of considerable-end video production - wide dynamic range, low color turmoil, high-contrast detail, natural color resolution and low-aliasing. The 3 CCD system also makes advocate Pixel Shift (for increased image quality) and Low Light Recording (for increased springiness) possible.
Professional L-Series Fluorite Lens
Canon has satisfied the demands of in the know image makers for years through the power, design and quality of 35mm and disseminate TV lenses. Canon's Professional L-Series lenses utilize Fluorite, a serious which provides outstanding resolution, contrast, and color reproduction- predominantly in lightweight, high-magnification lenses. Incorporated into the lens on the GL2, Fluorite delivers the remotest in clarity and image quality. The Fluorite element inside the lens defeats redden aberration -- the effect when the components of light stray from one another within a lens, causing a reduction in sharpness, discriminate and color. The Fluorite lens precisely controls components of active providing an excellent balance of these three critical ingredients of picture nobility. This is unobtainable with conventional optical glass.
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 scrape by allows more accurate interpolation, resulting in an image that Canon claims rivals those from cameras with 410,000-pixel CCDs. Each pixel is 72 on a par microns, which is about 1.5 times the size as those in competing camcorders. This increased gauge increases light sensitivity, allowing you to shoot in low-light situations. All this results in unpaid detail, with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of exorbitant-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.
Audio
The GL2's omni-directional microphone is intended to deliver realistic stereo sound. Using the GL2's advanced associate shoe expands your audio options. Audio can be recorded in 16-bit modus operandi on two channels on one track. Alternatively, audio can be record in 12-bit condition, where the audio track is divided into two, and two channels of audio are recorded onto one tail find, with the other left over for audio dubbing.
Optical Image Stabilizer
Canon's out of sight optical stabilization system corrects camera shake instantly so even lunch-hook held shots, at full telephoto, and shots taken from a moving car, are unconstrained and steady. And since it is optical, there is no loss of image quality inevitable with electronic perception stabilizers. It perfectly complements the high picture quality of the DV plan.
Digital Stills
You can turn your GL2 into a still camera by switching to 1.7-megapixel photo modus operandi and capturing high-resolution still images onto the camcorder's MultiMedia/Make fast Digital card. (One 8 MB Secure Digital card is included with the GL2.) The full-frame images are open from time-lag blur. A six-blade circular iris, as found on Canon's top-of-the-line XL1 and XL1S models, is inured to for professional exposure control, helping to deliver stunning video and still photos.
Inputs and Outputs
The GL2 comes with the benchmark DV IEEE 1394 port (also known as FireWire) for a super-accelerated, lossless connection to a PC or other DV machines. You can also connect to your PC via a USB connection to download still photos. The GL2 is expected to handle two types of analog input and output: using audio/video cables (composite) or S-video. Both connections are on the camera back.
More Features
- Three shooting modes: routine movie mode, digital photo mode, and the cinema-like skeleton movie mode.
- The Custom Key function lets you create and set apart your own custom settings so your common shooting modes can be readily duplicated.
- Digital effects are offered for a greater imaging kind, including fader, sepia, strobe motion, and black and ivory.
- With the Interval Timer function, you can record for a selected time with a selected interim--convenient for nature observations such as flowers or sunsets.
MiniDV Format
The Canon GL2 digital video camcorder uses the archetype MiniDV cassette, producing the highest quality video possible from nonbroadcast gear. The MiniDV format standard delivers more than 500 lines of horizontal suggestion. And, because it records both video and audio as digital data, this information can be transferred--without any forfeiture of picture or audio quality--to a computer for editing, then transferred back to DV tape, without a reduction in either depict or audio quality.
