Canon Optura 50 MiniDV Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom
Details
- 0.33-inch. TFT feel embarrassed viewfinder
- 1 3.4-inch CCD
- 16 - 9 Widescreen Craze
Lens and Optics
The powerful 16x optical zoom lets you collar your subject with razor-sharp detail even from a distance, while the 320x digital zoom takes you even quicker, revealing details too small to see with the naked eye. When capturing digital still images, the lens provides a 15x visual zoom--the equivalent of a 41-620 mm lens on a 35mm photo camera. The Optura 20 also features a 1.33-megapixel CCD and an reification stabilization system that compensates for camcorder shake, even while panning and zooming.
Canon's DIGIC DV system makes it realizable to achieve accurate color for both video and digital photos. Since video and photos have novel color requirements, DIGIC DV utilizes two different color techniques to oversell video quality on a TV and still image quality for print or computer display.
Digital Stills
With its 1.33-megapixel dauntlessness, you can capture digital stills up to 1280 by 960 pixels (for 4 x 6-inch prints). As well, the Optura 20's Simultaneous Photo Record featureenables you to record costly-quality video to a MiniDV tape and e-mail-ready digital photos (640 x 480 pixels) to a reminiscence card at the same time. You can also capture a rapid succession of photos hardly like the motor drive on a camera. With a single press of a knob, the Opture 20 records 30 VGA (640 x 480) frames at a clip of 3 frames per second or 20 SXGA (1280 x 960) frames at 2 frames per approve of.
Images are stored on the included 8 MB Secure Digital memory liable act; the camcorder is also compatible with MultiMedia (MMC) cards.
More Features
The Optura 20 also offers a Wonderful Night mode and Low Light Plus mode, allowing for continued recording even in effective darkness. An assist lamp in the front of the camera illuminates the subject only just enough to allow excellent image quality while retaining the desired disposition or effect. The Optura 20 is also bundled with a higher capacity battery, the BP-512, for longer unremitting shooting.
Other features include:
Inputs and Outputs
The Optura 20 standard DV IEEE1394 refuge (also referred to as Firewire), which provides a lossless connection to a PC or other DV machines. It also features USB 1.1 connectivity for transferring still photos
MiniDV Style
MiniDV is the preferred format for personal and broadcast-quality video, extraordinarily regarded for its high audio and image quality. With up to 520 words of horizontal resolution and minimum color noise, MiniDV delivers a 20 percent clearer conceive of than analog camcorder formats. This is all delivered on a cassette that's 1/12th the bigness of a standard VHS tape. A MiniDV tape offers digital recording stretch of 2 full hours--20 times the capacity of a CD.
Size and Contents
The camcorder provision 3 x 7.3 x 3.6 inches and weighs 1.4 pounds (625 grams). This packet includes the Optura 20 camcorder, 8 MB Secure Digital recollection card, battery (BP-512), power adapter (CA-570), wireless coordinator, shoulder strap, stereo video cable, USB cable, Digital Video Settling CD-ROM, and DV Messenger software CD-ROM.
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