White Paper 034 Addendum 29: Assessment of a Canon HF10 AVCHD

Alan Roberts

Abstract

The HD10 is a very small HDTV camcorder, weighing only 380grams. It records stills or television onto SD or SDHC cards using AVCHD compression (up to 17Mb/s, MPEG4), and can be monitored via an uncompressed HDMI connection. The range of menu controls is not adequate for broadcast purposes; clearly this camera is aimed at the consumer market. However, its performance is rather better than might be expected of such a small camera. Since the range of controls do not allow specific setting of gamma, detail and so on, only the colour performance and resolution has evaluated, and this document does not contain any listing of menu settings.

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