Canon Optura PI MiniDV Digital Camcorder with Built-in Digital Still Mode
List Price: $1,799.00
Details
- Visual image stabilization
- 3.5-inch go red in the face LCD swivel monitor
- IEEE 1394 meeting the requirements
Description
Regardless of its compact size, Canon's Optura Pi is a full-featured MiniDV camcorder. A 12x optical (48x digital) zoom Canon lens gets you good in the action, while optical image stabilization helps prevent unwanted shakes and jitters from creeping into your leading footage. The flip-out LCD screen is a large 3.5 inches.A adept word about image stabilization. Most camcorders with image stabilization use digital double stabilization, which is a software-based method of correcting handheld wobbles and shakes. Though digital embodiment stabilization works well, it does so at the expense of image quality, reducing the overall number of pixels used to capture an image. In contrast, the Optura Pi uses visual image stabilization, which continuously detects motion and adjusts elements favoured the lens to compensate, resulting in a shudder-free image without any annihilation in image resolution.
A number of different programmed auto unmasking modes (including sand and snow, sports, portrait, and low evanescent) automatically adjust settings to take the worry out of shooting in challenging status. Besides the different programmed auto-exposure modes, the Optura Pi also offers three unique shooting modes. You'll probably leave the camera set to normal flick picture show mode a majority of the time. Digital photo mode lets you use the Optura Pi as a digital camera, recording a still likeness for six seconds on the miniDV tape, and allowing audio commentary. There's a lot of flexibility here: you can shift between movie and digital photo modes and create a unique collage of stills and video. Inexorably, the digital motor drive mode uses the progressive-scan CCD to pinch a full noninterlaced 30 frames per second. This means you can use the footage as a series of non-aligned photographs.
As a DV camcorder, the Optura Pi has an IEEE 1394 port for digital editing, or for transferring footage between IEEE 1394 in compliance devices, such as computers or other DV camcorders. The Optura also features S-Video input and create. The analog inputs allow you to transfer old footage to DV for archiving. Built-in effects file art and sepia. Various faders ease scene transitions.
