Great movies start with immense CCD sensors, and Canon cuts no corners here. For the best possible picture distinction, they use three separate 270,000 pixel CCDs (one for each primary color). To further better image detail, Canon has intentionally shifted the green CCD half a pixel horizontally and vertically. This gang allows more accurate interpolation, resulting in an image that Canon claims rivals those from cameras with 410,000 pixel CCDs. Each pixel is 72 quadrangular microns, which is about 1.5 times the size as those in competing camcorders. This increased range increases light sensitivity, allowing you to shoot in lower-uncover situations. Ultimately, the larger pixel size results in an change for the better of 4 dB in sensitivity.
The XL1's body is based on a magnesium-alloy frame for extreme durability. It ships with a 16x optical zoom lens with optical simulacrum stabilization, but is also compatible with other XL camcorder lenses. With an optional adapter, you can use Canon EF (EOS) still camera lenses--some of which also spotlight optical image stabilization.
Though the camera's built-in microphone has a pronounced frequency response, the XL1 can also accept balanced microphones with the optional MA-100 microphone adapter/support pad. The XL1 records digital audio, with two channels of 16 bit/48 KHz lucid or 4 channels of 12 bit/32 KHz sound.
The electronics of the XL1 have many advanced features, including a tot up of programmed AE modes, as well as both shutter and aperture priority modes. There are two assorted auto modes, one of which allows you to adjust any setting manually, if you necessitate, and the other, which adjusts every setting automatically and lets you adjust nothing. A spotlight status automatically compensates for difficulties when shooting a subject bathed in a feature. There are also three different shooting modes: Normal Movie, Digital Photo, and Humour Movie. Normal Movie mode is for any time you want to scuttle video footage. Digital photo mode records a still ikon for six seconds on the mini DV tape and also captures any audio, such as a commentary. The Raise Movie Mode records 30 noninterlaced still images per espouse, instead of capturing 60 fps interlaced images. This mode isn't intended to be against for shooting video (playback may not look completely smooth). Rather, Enclose Movie mode should be used as a burst, or continuous, shooting standard operating procedure, like you'd find on a still camera.
The XL1 uses an IEEE 1394 port for digital editing and for transferring footage to and from other IEEE 1394 in compliance devices. The camcorder also has RCA (composite) audio and video ports, and an S-Video out. The XL1 features a LANC VDU = 'visual display unit' for editing with compatible controllers.
The 3 CCD System
The GL2 maximizes the capability of the DV format by using a 3 CCD (assault-coupled device) system with a separate CCD for each primary color (red, green, low-spirited). A beam-splitting prism separates light passing through the lens into characteristic color components and each is sent to its own CCD. Compared to a single CCD, the 3 CCD system achieves due detail with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of serious-end video production - wide dynamic range, low color spread, high-contrast detail, natural color resolution and low-aliasing. The 3 CCD system also makes campaigner Pixel Shift (for increased image quality) and Low Light Recording (for increased manageability) possible.
Professional L-Series Fluorite Lens
Canon has satisfied the demands of knowledgeable image makers for years through the power, design and quality of 35mm and transmission TV lenses. Canon's Professional L-Series lenses utilize Fluorite, a bodily which provides outstanding resolution, contrast, and color reproduction- strikingly in lightweight, high-magnification lenses. Incorporated into the lens on the GL2, Fluorite delivers the highest in clarity and image quality. The Fluorite element inside the lens defeats feel ashamed aberration -- the effect when the components of light stray from one another within a lens, causing a reduction in sharpness, compare and color. The Fluorite lens precisely controls components of touch off providing an excellent balance of these three critical ingredients of picture blue blood. This is unobtainable with conventional optical glass.
To further improve image detail, Canon has intentionally shifted the unripe 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 cubic microns, which is about 1.5 times the size as those in competing camcorders. This increased measure assess increases light sensitivity, allowing you to shoot in low-light situations. All this results in notable detail, with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of record-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 additional shoe expands your audio options. Audio can be recorded in 16-bit set-up on two channels on one track. Alternatively, audio can be record in 12-bit system, where the audio track is divided into two, and two channels of audio are recorded onto one wake trace, with the other left over for audio dubbing.
Optical Image Stabilizer
Canon's extraordinary optical stabilization system corrects camera shake instantly so even turn over held shots, at full telephoto, and shots taken from a moving car, are glassy and steady. And since it is optical, there is no loss of image quality inevitable with electronic likeness stabilizers. It perfectly complements the high picture quality of the DV dimensions.
Digital Stills
You can turn your GL2 into a still camera by switching to 1.7-megapixel photo vogue and capturing high-resolution still images onto the camcorder's MultiMedia/Certain Digital card. (One 8 MB Secure Digital card is included with the GL2.) The full-fashion images are free from time-lag blur. A six-blade circular iris, as found on Canon's top-of-the-plumb b in agreement XL1 and XL1S models, is used for professional exposure control, helping to liberate stunning video and still photos.
Inputs and Outputs
The GL2 comes with the measure DV IEEE 1394 port (also known as FireWire) for a super-lasting, 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 intended to handle two types of analog input and output: using audio/video cables (composite) or S-video. Both connections are on the camera back.
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MiniDV Format
The Canon GL2 digital video camcorder uses the yardstick MiniDV cassette, producing the highest quality video possible from nonbroadcast appurtenances. The MiniDV format standard delivers more than 500 lines of horizontal exactness. And, because it records both video and audio as digital data, this information can be transferred--without any failure of picture or audio quality--to a computer for editing, then transferred back to DV tape, without a reduction in either impression or audio quality.
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