Canon Announces DC50 DVD Camcorder
- January 5th, 2007
- 3 Comments
Canon just announced its new DC50 DVD Camcorder. This $799 handheld camcorder is feature-rich and is perfect for those on the fence between amateurs and professional. The DC50 offers direct-to-DVD recording, a 5.39-megapixel CCD image sensor for 5-megapixel photos, 10x optical/200x digital zoom, DIGIC DV II technology, level and grid image marking, and the ability to record in true HD.
You’ll be able to capture some sweet footage with this bad boy. Then you can transfer it all via USB 2.0 and edit it with the included Roxio software. Want the DC50? You’ll have to ride it out until mid-February, when it’s due to be released.
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
These cams are becoming very nice indeed… if only purchases involved an IQ test… the technology has improved vastly but sadly, the videos produced by these home cams are usually worse then watching commercials. If I had to choose between dating Paris or watching another homemade video… I think a noose would have to be ordered.
Jon
mathew (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I don’t see any mention of HD in the press release, let alone “true HD”. Given that DVD video resolution isn’t HD, it seems implausible; they’d need to make it write DVD data discs in some other format, such as MPEG-4, rather than plain video DVDs. Mistake?
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070105005083&newsLang=en
vi (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I love the new camcorders but they are too expensive for me. I already overshot my budget in building a computer. Time for me to get a job.