Just saw this, posted today about the new HG11 and HF11 Canon HDD AVCHD cameras rivalling HV20 & 30 for quality. Her thoughts: "Today the tape died, as far as I am concerned, with this fall of the HV20/30."
---- http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/07/22/consumer-avchd-caught-up- with-the-hv2030/ "Consumer AVCHD caught up with the HV20/30" Posted on Tue 22 Jul 2008 As I have said many times in the past, the HV20/30 are the best consumer cameras in terms of picture quality. Various high-end AVCHD models (HF100, SR11/SR12, SD9) tried to compete this year with the HV series, but they were still lacking that bit of extra quality that you can squeeze out of the HV20/30. Well, thats all the past now. Canon has just announced in Japan two new models, the HF11 and the HG11, which can record in 24mbps AVC, which is the highest bitrate that the AVCHD standard is asking for (higher bitrate is used by some prosumer camcorders, but thats not part of the official standard). With the HF11 and HG11 recording at full [EMAIL PROTECTED] MPEG4-AVC, the HV20/30 with its [EMAIL PROTECTED] MPEG-2 has no chance in hell to keep the reigns any longer. Today the tape died, as far as I am concerned, with this fall of the HV20/30. The HF11 is largely the same camera model as the HF10, but the HG11 was completely reworked compared to the HG10. It has a brand new body, better lens, better usability, 120 GB drive with ability to also record in SD card, 12x zoom instead of 10x. I would have considered the HG11 if it wasnt for the stupidity of Canon of going down to 37mm filter thread, and not staying with HG10s 43mm. I have a gazillion accessories for the HV20 that would have work with any 43mm camera. Step-down rings are not good in my case as large and heavy lenses and adapters would break the step-down ring and the cameras filter thread if I was to mount them in the HG11. It sucks to be stuck in something as trivial as a filter thread." ----- Typical Canon stupidity in screwing up a small detail like the filter thread. I love Canon, but they always do stuff like this (like leaving out the pulldown flags on NTSC HV20 or any number of small, needless but significant annoyances on the XL1) and it drives me nuts. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/