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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | From Canon's long history of optical excellence, advanced image processing, superb performance and technological innovation in photographic and broadcast television cameras comes the latest in high definition camcorders.Now, with the light, compact Canon FS10, you can have stunning video with the ease and numerous benefits of Flash Memory, at an affordable price. Flash Memory is used in some of the world's most innovative electronic products such as laptop computers, MP3 players, PDAs and cell phones. Canon offers the best in Flash Memory with Dual Flash Memory- record to both the camcorder's 8GB internal memory and a removable SD/SDHC card, extending your available recording space and offering added flexibility in file transfer and playback. It's just the thing for catching more of your life's most special moments.Add to that the FS10's Canon Exclusive features such as Canon 48x Advanced Zoom and DIGIC DV II Image Processor, combined with a 1.07 Megapixel CCD image sensor, Image Stabilization and a 2.7" Widescreen LCD - and you truly have a Flash Memory camcorder that's both hard to beat and unmistakably Canon. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 4.9 inches | | Product Width: | 2.4 inches | | Product Height: | 2.3 inches | | Product Weight: | 3.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.8 inches | | Package Width: | 7.2 inches | | Package Height: | 6.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 49 reviews |
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| | Features | Capture video to 8 GB hard drive or SDHC cards48x Advanced Zoom; image stabilizerWidescreen HR recording2.7-inch widescreen LCDUSB 2.0 compatible for fast file transfer
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 Great portability!!! Feb 22, 2010
I've had my Canon FS10 now for 2 years and have not had anything go wrong and I use it for video editing projects I do. The menu to view video clips and select options is a bit complicated but not a reason to pass this camera by. It took me a while but I've mastered it. Also, if you have a mac as I do, the only way to import video is through imovie9. I have found no other way. If you want to edit the video in another program (like Final Cut) you can export the video out of imovie to a compatible format. This camera is perfect for vacations. I can just stick in my pocket or my wife's purse and it's so convenient not having to carry a bag. I don't use the still image function because I use a regular camera but the images are pretty good.
Gus123 Feb 11, 2010
I found this cam due to reviews by 2 other buyer.It is more than I expected for the price. I previously owned 2 cheaper cams...under $175.00 and there is no comparison. this is a fine, easy to operate, easy to carry and secure unit. The picture quality is superb even in very low light. the zoom feature works flawless to the limits the manual said. I would buy another cannon product without question of the quality and recommend this cam to anyone...professional or beginner.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
FS10 is very good for the $$$ Feb 08, 2010
I was able to buy the Canon FS10 for $188.00 as a referb from the manufacturer. I wanted a flash memory camera to replace my Sony Handycam DV.
Benefits:
1. No moving parts in the FS10
...DV tapes are a pain, and hard drive camcorders sound worse than laptop computers, which get destroyed if you use them on your "lap" ...the FS10 flash memory is great--nothing moves--so nothing breaks. 8 gig on board and 8 more only cost $21.00. I bought the Trancend SDHC 8 gig class (6)...That looked like the best card for the money. The "class (6)" is a reasonably fast speed. I wouldn't use less, and you probably would be wasting money with a higher speed card with the FS10, as you probably wouldn't note a difference in performance. Bottom line: it's 100 times faster than DV Capture. Note: the camera does not automatically switch from internal memory to the card, you must do this manually. Be aware of your shooting time in relation to the quality of recording selected. The highest quality XP, lasts just under 2 hours for each 8 gigs, much longer in the lower quality settings.
2. Above average low light performance.
Compared to the Handycam, the crappy low light performance was really less crappy. In fact, quite good if you use a little imagination and compromise. The FS10 will record in zero light quite well up to about 3-feet away, using the on board light--that's pretty good for your routine late night back office spy work, but if you are aiming the camera at a person, the light is rather blinding. I used it to record my music act in a poorly lit bar. In color, using the night setting, everything lit up well and was grainy. On another night, I set the camera to the "night" setting and also the "black and white" setting and the picture was much better. The camera has several other settings to compensate for lighting. Compared to my old Hanycam, night vision is much better. My friend has a $5000 dollar camera, he uses professionally, and he uses good photography lights to make his indoor videos come out right. For $188.00, I'm not going to beat my head, trying to find a cheap camera that films great in low light. I'm just going to light my subjects if I need crisp images. Otherwise, the FS10 performs just fine.
3. Remote Control
I like the remote control. I had the camera situated about 15 feet up on a wall in a club, and I could just tap the record on/off button from the floor...very cool. You can manipulate all the functions of the camera via the remote.
4.Software:
Most of the reviews made me nervous here. But...I use windows XP. The Pixela Image Maker 3 quickly converts the stored footage to an (mpg) file, which transfers easily to my Sony Vegas Pro 8 editor. Make sure you specify Pixela's (settings) to send your project information to the specific place you want to work (like an external multi terabite drive!)so you don't clutter up your C-drive with a ton of your work. Expect to use your own editor, so shop wisely and make sure it works with (MPG) files--most should. I don't know about Windows Vista or Windows 7 yet as I'm waiting for 8 and 3/4 to come out before I jump out of XP.
5 Mikes:
There are a set of stereo mikes on he front of the camera and a slot to plug in an external mike on the left side of the camera. The regular mikes compress the sound if it is too loud. The ultimate solution to high volume sound with this camera would be to use high quality condenser mikes going through a small mixing board and then into the camera. It's nice to know that that possibility exists, but the front-end mikes were ok on the blasting show I recorded the other night--again, this cost less then the usual $5000 a night video crew--I'm not expecting MTV quality video in this scenario. The video I captured, however, was used to successfully canvas another venue for my band to perform at--good enough!
6 Audio:
The "AV Out" works fine to your AV in on a TV for instant playback or you can just stick the included AV cable RCA ends into a sound system so you can hear the recording better, while watching the footage on the screen. Though, the transfer to the computer is so fast, I just upload and listen to the sound and watch the video on the computer. The overall sound quality is about the same as my old Handycam--its ok. As mentioned in (5) the camera has the potential to accept processed sound from an external mixer if you want better sound.
7. Zoom and auto focus:
Great. I read about some camera's making noise on the recording and or sluggish focus--on the new cameras! No problems noted here. You can change the speed of the auto focus if needed. The zoom goes to 2000x, but I just used the default zoom setting, which gives the best quality.
8. Feel:
At first site, this camera was not that great looking. But I liked the over-all reviews on the FS10 better than any of the other 1001 various reviews I read. So i put sexy looks aside and went with my intellectual gut feeling. But now that I have the camera, I note that it is actually very solid; good small size; and easy to work with. It has become more and more attractive as I see that it delivers what it should for what it is. I am glad that I got this camera as a referb for $188.00. I also added a 3-year warranty for 30 bucks...that I don't feel I will need, but I feel better having it. I don't think you will lose sleep if you can get this camera at (that) price as it's original new cost is around $500. At $500 and above, however, I might be looking for an HD camcorder. Nevertheless, the complaints about poor quality and other problems associated with using HD camcorders are just as bad--if not worse in the HD market verses the SD market. I decided to get this standard definition camera, because after reading all the HD camcorder reviews, I felt those cameras weren't worth the money or headache for really not that much more value. This camera works great with current 2010 technology--easy to load to computer--easy to load to YouTube, etc. I'll get an HD camcorder when I get Windows 8 and 3/4.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Cannon FS10 Dec 23, 2009
I found the Cannon FS10 video camera a difficult transition from VHS or Cassette cameras. It simply has more features that I will ever use. The operating manual is clear and helped me work my way through the features. The FS10 works perfectly and would be my choice again.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
My Experiences With the Canon FS10, Mac w/iMovie 08, and DW-100 stand alone burner are Great Jul 28, 2009
I did lots of research, and am happy I chose this one. I got this for my wife for Christmas08, so we have lots of experience with it now to review. I also realize there are newer options on the market now to consider before you make your purchase. If your expectations are for perfection in video, then buy something costing three to five times more. For my needs and expectations as a sophisticated hobbyist, the FS10/FS11/FS100 is exactly perfect price vs performance ratio.
If you are going digital, why would you buy a camera with a hard drive (HDD) or a mini-DVD burner on board? A HUGE point of failure and battery suck. In my opinion, with the low-cost SDHC (SD HighCapacity), this solid-state camera technology is the ONLY way to go. Before you buy HDD/Mini-DV, see what steps and time you have to go through to get video on your computer, edit it, and burn a DVD. Makes some other reviewer complaints on this camera pale.
FS10 FS11 and the FS100 are identical except they have different amounts of memory. To me the FS10 is the sweetspot. Enough onboard memory to be functional, then copy over to the SDHC for redundancy (corruption happens) and to quickly pop into a cardreader on my computer. OR use multiple SDHC's for high capacity or redundancy til you download to your computer or make your DVD. Show me someone who is committed to ALWAYS having data in two places, and I will show you someone who has felt the pain of lost data (damaged/corrupted SDHC/hard-drive-crash, motherboard failure, etc).
My wife and I do not have an HD TV to view High Def on, and the files are HUGE. I will start looking at HD in another 5 years. No Hurry. I've got a great looking Panasonic TV that has lots more years in it. So, for what we want this Canon FS10 is ideal.
My wife likes her camera, so it was a great gift. I have used it too, and I really like it. The coup de gras was at my brother-in-law's retirement-party and wedding where I shot lots of footage. I burned a bunch of DVD's for folks to take home with them, from the raw footage on the camera straight to the DW-100 stand alone burner. The footage looked GREAT when we viewed it on TV and a standard DVD player. Received lots of unsolicited positive compliments about the appearance of the recordings. Said it looked semi-professional.
NOTE: I was using the highest-quality setting, NOT the default setting it comes out of the box with. The highest quality setting makes a little larger file, which consumes your memory a little faster, but the result IS WORTH IT, if you are shooting archival footage. For just average video or to throw something up on Youtube, the lowest quality smallest-filesize setting will work fine. You probably don't even need the middle quality setting.
MUCH of our wedding recording was shot in pretty low light (think the inside of a dimly lit church). I can only assume that the persons posting problems shooting in low light either 1)have different settings on their camera (I am using the EASY BUTTON!) or 2) The got a lemon of a camera, or 3) they have unreasonable expectations of how low light that they can/should shoot video under.
I saw that the image on the flip-out screen while I was recording, did look grainy, and showed a lot of shake while I was recording. BUT the processed image did not show as much grain in low light, or as much shake, when replayed on the big screen tv. It even kept the wide-screen format of the camera recording when viewing on tv, as black bars were present above and below the image on the tv screen.
Connection to my wife's Mac is simple, as long as you have iMovie 08 or newer (09). See more here: [...] The only reason to put it in iMovie is to edit. If you don't need to edit in or edit out portions within scenes or sounds, or don't want to make the time or hassle to edit, just burn straight to DW-100 stand alone burner. Haven't tried downloading videos directly to my pc laptop.
My only complaint about the DW-100 stand alone burner is that it is MUCH larger than I expected, and I believe MUCH larger than it needed to be. The camera is so tiny, I expected the DW-100 stand alone burner to be small also. Don't expect the DW-100 stand alone burner to fit in your other pocket. But if you simply use an inexpensive Power Inverter in your car, you can take videos in remote locations, and send DVD's home with all your friends/family after events like concerts, plays, weddings, family reunions...etc. Logically, instead of considering a video recorder that makes on-board DVD's (actually mini-DVD's), the DW-100 stand alone burner is a MUCH more functional, convenient, and elegant solution. The on-board models suck MUCH more battery life, are prone to failure due to many more moving parts, and by necessity must be much larger/bulkier.
The grainy-ness and camera shake looked bad on the screen as I shot video. But looked great after on DVD. I have not seen the types of poor video complaints of some other reviewers. I wonder if some reviewers are seeing compression artifacts of repeated recompression of editing? Don't know what they are using. I use iMovie 08, so far, so good.
I recommend using two hands to help stabilize...I mean the left hand/fingers grasping the viewscreen, especially at max zoom. The intelligent anti-shake can only do so much. The camera is so tiny that it WILL move with every movement of your shaky hand. It does not have the bulk and mass of a big VHS camcorder to stabilize it. Remember the tiny size and weight are a feature, and if that feature appeals to you, you must be mindful to hold it steady when shooting. I think a uni-pod (like a hiking staff, smaller/lighter than a tripod) is ideal.
*Tiny size, fits in my palm, and in my front pants pocket. Amazing.
*Fast-on, and EASY BUTTON are convenient.
*Battery life is excellent.
*The DW-100 stand alone burner is not cheap, but it is a really nice and convenient guilty pleasure (although bigger than wanted/necessary). Think of it like this: It's like buying a miniDV video camera with the DVD-writer portion separate, which gives you greater camera battery life, lets you use cheap standard widely-available DVD-R (compared to expensive and fewer-minutes on miniDV), fewer moving parts in the camera to break, tremendous reliability against disc-write errors due to jarring or drops.
*Make SURE if you use the DW-100 stand alone burner for recording, that your DVD-R's are VERBATIM brand for greatest reliability.
*I expect long-life and reliability because there are so few moving parts (no hard-drive HDD, no miniDV burner, just a zoom lens).
*The stabilization feature worked well (just don't expect miracles).
*The lowest-light shots were a touch grainy but not nearly as bad as expected after reading some bad reviews (again I used the highest quality setting, and Easy Button). The focus was sometimes in/out when in low light and extreme zoom. If you need NO GRAIN, and PERFECT FOCUS, get a big light, or spend a LOT more on a different camera.
*Mac compatible for simple/easy editing in iMovie 08 or newer.
*Uses standard removable media SDHC (why would you buy one that didn't? OR that had only built-in and none removable?).
*I don't know about still-photos. Didn't buy it for that. But I imagine it would work in a pinch...hey, most folks use the camera on their cell phone for crying-out-loud.
*Dual memory: Onboard memory plus SDHC. Redundancy to guard against data loss, unlimited capacity using removable SDHC, and quick/easy download to computer using card-readers(at least on a Mac via iMovie 08 or later).
*Excellent zoom.
*Do make SURE any SDHC card you buy has a speed class 2 or higher. If you can not confirm that specification, keep looking. The manual also recommends to stick with Sandisk, Panasonic, or Toshiba brand cards.
*Make SURE any card reader you intend to use to read SDHC cards directly to your computer (as as a fast and convenient option/alternative to the usb connection) are specifically able to read the HighCapicity version (SDHC vs SD). Good SDHC card readers are available for [...] dollars.
I've already gone on very long. I will post a comment that has LOTS of additional information gleaned from snippets that hundreds of other reviewers have posted. I hope you find it helpful.
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