Getting and Testing a Canon VIXIA HF11 Full HD Camcorder

The following video was shot using the latest Canon Full HD consumer camcorder my wife gave me as Christmas present last year, which is only 2 weeks ago. It was the first video I shot using the camcorders built-in flash memory because I was testing it right out of the box in the shop. After spending 2 weeks with it, I must say it is an amazing camcorder. It is light and compact in size. I carry it with me everyday. Compared with my other HD camcorders, it beats them in both performance and video quality. It starts up quickly and performs exceptionally well under low-light conditions. But, sadly, I just learned today Canon has announced a new model HF S10, at 2009 CES, which is due to release in February. It spots a bigger and faster lens, which generally translates into even better video quality under low-light situations. I might as well get my wife's money worth by embarking on a shooting spree in the coming weeks. Anyway, as the old saying goes in gadgetjunkie land, never trust an upgrade with your money that only has a minor upgrade in versioning. In this case, from HF10 to HF11.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Canon
• VIXIA
• Full HD
• camcorder
• HF11
• HF S10
• HF10

[magoostus]

WOW, The same thing happened to me, i got my HF11 this december. , but maybe the new hf s10's quality wont be a huge improvemet. Now, i did find the best quality settings for the HF11 put it in CINE mode. and set the custom color controls to Brightnes -1, Contrast +1, color +1, sharpness +1. video should have less blowouts and look very nice.

But who knows, maybe sony's new cam that has 2x the light sensitivity will beat the new canon...

[rodkar]

Thank you or the settings tip. Videos I shot in the first week were all using standard settings. After first week, I began using CINE mode and 24P. I will give your recommendations a try.

I read about the Sony ones. But they are hard-disk based. My guess is, now that Samsung has released a 64GB camcorder, I think Canon will catch up before mid-year with a 64GB version as well in the form of HF S11.

I did only find out after I got the HF11 that the hard disk version comes with viewfinder.

[Renick2766]

lololol !!! hey is that you ?

I came across this girl in my nite club

Link to her page @ DateHerSafe[`]com/profile?=587­8

[MrPacMan36]

it's definitely not RAW, I have an HF11 and the raw videos are crystal clear when I post strait to youtube... but when I first rendered my videos it had those lines in it, but I found out the problem, I needed to change the settings of my video editor, to edit 1440x1280 and then save as 1920x1280 or 1280x720

[ImperialPimp]

Maybe just needs de-interlacing applied to it in FCP, or Vegas...

[metafora6]

Bad interlacing, what did you out put the file as? or is it just raw?