Canon HG10 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The HG10 is light and comfortable to hold

Pros: Superb images ; Very easy to manage clips ; Native support in iMovie ’08 ; Good stills performance

Cons: Some ergonomic mistakes ; Opaque menu system

Verdict: Yes, its expensive. Yes, few people have the displays to play back full HD in all its glory. And yes, youre going to have to invest in some serious storage to archive this footage rather than simply filing cheap tapes. But still, this is a lovely ...

Review summary: When we recently gave Canon's HR10 AVCHD cam a workout and were seriously impressed by what it offered for the relatively small asking price of £600. This time around it's the turn of its higher specified brethren, the HG10.

Pros: Impressive features set, Powerful, with excellent performance, Great set of features, Excellent picture-performance, Good lens, Spectra Ambilight is a showstopper, Superb pictures, Highly impressive sound, Reasonable feature count, Well built, Well ...

Cons: Poor battery life, Chunky build, Not the cheapest compact around, Massively expensive, Could overly dominate a room, Average performance, Overly small controls, Overpriced, Drab design, Handling noise occasionally captured, Expensive

Verdict: A well-specified performer with an innovative approach to navigation and manual operation that is capable of impressive pictures and sound.

Review summary: Canon gets hard-corder

Pros: Video quality; Memory; HDMI connection

Cons: Bit pricey

Verdict: Canon come out fighting into the HDD market

Review summary: The HG10 is Canon's first HDD AVCHD camcorder. It is small and well balanced, and it comes with a 1/2.7" CMOS sensor and a host of new features that all add up to great-looking HD video

Pros: Excellent video quality with very accurate color quality

Cons: No manual focus ring No manual audio level adjustments

Verdict: A small camcorder packed with features that result in excellent HD video quality.

Award: Recommended!

Review summary: Canon's first camcorder with a hard disk drive makes its debut. Is James Morris impressed?

Verdict: Although the HG10 doesn't bowl us over quite as much as the HV20, it's still an impressive piece of kit. Sony's lower end HDR-SR5E undercuts it on price considerably, but misses out key features such as a standard-sized accessory shoe. The more fully ...