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Howdy from Texas and welcome to HD Mom dot com. This is a sister site to DV Info Net and its purpose is to provide an online technical and creative resource for all subject relating to consumer High Definition video. It has a strong focus on consumer HD camcorders in the sub-$2,000 price range from [...]

We came away with some usable video which served our purposes, but it’s definitely *not* what you would call beautiful footage. It was the middle of the day with a white and gray sky; hardly any color anywhere… the exact opposite of Golden Hour, if there can be such a thing. Austin Meyers shot the sequences with the HF11 and HV30 camcorders sharing a tripod, which greatly facilitated the ease and speed with which he worked, with the constant threat of an impending torrential downpour hanging over our heads. With the camcorders in close proximity to each other mounted on the same tripod, Austin was able to match camera settings and change frame rates and data rates very quickly.

On July 22nd 2008, Canon Inc. announced two new consumer HD camcorders for the Japanese market. One of these — the VIXIA HG21 — was an expected move. It’s a timely update of Canon’s HG10, originally released about a year ago. We’ll cover the HG21 in a separate article. However, the other new camcorder, the VIXIA HF11, comes as a bit of a surprise to some people. After all, its predecessor, the VIXIA HF10, has been on the market for only a few short months.

This is an outdated document, but I wanted to present it here as one possible format for comparing camcorder feature sets in one convenient, easy to read chart.