Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21454 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 3538B007AA
• Released on: 2009-01-24
• Dimensions: .75 pounds

Features

• Canon Legria HF200 Camcorder

Manufacturer's Description
Small enough to carry with you everywhere, the LEGRIA HF200 records stunning Full HD movies straight to SDHC memory cards – perfect for passing on to friends or uploading to the web.

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Customer Reviews

Canon's latest video offering
An excellent camera and does what it says on the box! However, as usual here are some minor thoughts on the design. The image stabilsation is not as effective as on the previous Canon Camcorder I had, the MVX2i, and do miss the IS which was on the old machine. The ergonomics of holding the camcorder and pressing the on button does not suit my hands and fingers but no doubt, in time, I will adapt to it. I have just used it on a an extended tour of the South West USA and the pictures are just great however its performance in relatively darkly lit scenes does show up much "noise" when compared to the MVX2i and perhaps this is due to the smaller size sensor. Just make sure you have purchased the Grade C4 (and upwards) SD card else you are not going to get the best performance the camera is capable of delivering.

Good buy, but don't overestimate
The handling is good, easy to use. Picture quality ok, although I was slightly unimpressed by the relatively low color saturation by default, but you can set it to your liking. Sound quality as good as it get from a tiny mic.

What I think you should think twice before buying (not only this but any HD camera) is two thing:
- are you ready to cope with the huge amount of data (and I'm talking gigabytes) this beast is generating every 10 minutes? If you use this frequently, you will have to keep piling up hard disks like there is no tomorrow AND you will spend ages on downloading and then backing up your files
- are you ready to spend hours on editing, converting, writing to DVD, BD, etc.? With traditional cameras, once the tape was full you labeled it, put in to the shelf and never watched it again. With this, you shoot, you download, you edit, you convert to DVD or BD, you write it, you save the gigabytes of raw material on HD, you label the disk, you put in on the shelf and never watch it again...

I ended up shooting movies, editing them and saving them in 640*320 format (fit for youtube and my iPhone) so no real need for an HD camera unless you are a pro. Talking about pro, I have a quad-core Mac Pro with 16gb RAM and I can still cook dinner and watch the 8pm movie during the time it takes to actually process a 30 minute movie in full HD.

So think twice before you buy, but if you are ready to dive into shooting in HD, this is not bad of a choice after all.