Scott Simmon’s Editblog alerted me to a new camera in Canon’s HV line of super small high-def cameras, the HV40. (Stu Maschewitz and other “dv rebels” have been touting the HV20 (and HV30) for a while.) The big feature is “native 24P” mode and a custom button for saving presets.
Not sure if you can make it totally manual (iris/exposure, focus, gain, etc.)–this is a biggy for us indie filmmakers.
Canon HF11 all the way!!
About the same thing as HV40, but records to hard drive and flash memory.
Hi there
To average users this is same, you can a happy moment captured.
but the compressions are very different.
HV10/20/30/40 are using Mpeg2 compression into HDV ( 1440×1080)
HF11 is AVCHD (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 standard).
may be i should say,you wish to have a HD/falshmemory camera when u r logging and capturing tons of HDV tapes
or you wish to have a HDV tape camera , when u have all recording material full and no way to back up, that spoiled ur holiday.
I prefer tape becos i just simply keep it well and safe till the capture time, no worry, no notebook to backup.
K.M.Lo
I actually just picked on of these up and love it. I got a DOF adapter to compensate for the fact that you can’t really adjust the iris/aperture. But it’s an amazing little camera.