Canon DC100 Review
The DC100 reserve a few surprises, as its strong ability to zoom and semi-manual settings unusual on a DVD camcorder input range. But he can not shoot that under standard conditions.
Verdict Canon DC100
DVD camcorder basic and cheap, the Canon DC100 is a safe choice despite his character whatsoever.
Good.
target large focal length and rapid development; image stabilizer satisfactory; video acceptable to low-light conditions, modes of exposure Aperture-priority and shutter.
Bad.
video quality generally acceptable; navigation commands little convenient; photos of poor quality.
Although bearing the same brand and also recording on DVD, DC 100 presents some differences with the Canon DC40. In addition to beach focal upper 25x zoom, DC100, the sensor 680 000 pixels resolution and lower the cabinet seemed a little less resistant, Canon has cut costs on a subtle but visible. Besides the poor quality of the video poor, so that use the DC100 is much fun. He reserves some good surprises, like a few commands exposure semi-manual and its development surprisingly fast.
Weighing just less than 500 g, the DC100 remains light for a camcorder. It offers good ergonomics to those who have hands of average size, the thumb and forefinger naturally found their place orders over the most important. Savings by Canon in terms of design are reflected in the power unprotected, cache target integrated command manual and a strip of plastic smooth this on top of the camcorder, preferred to a rubber version. The DC100 is also devoid of light video. However, in addition to its various scene modes, it offers ways to shutter priority and openness, however scanty on models sold in that order.
The DC100 uses mini-DVD-R/RW 8 cm on which it can record about 20 minutes of video quality, as most of its competitors. Its use is not always very easy. So if you decide to initialize a hard to read on a player, camcorder records VOB files standard, but if you initialize to be able to edit it later, he recorded format VRO, to be supported by Windows Media Player should be renamed with an extension MPG, but information on the ratio of height to width are lost (they are encoded in a separate file). In other words, a video 16/9e be converted into 4 / 3. In addition, the camera will be plugged into an electrical outlet to finalize a disc, the risk is ending up short battery during this crucial phase and lose its images, the DC100 does probably not the best choice for holiday outdoors.
Canon DC100 Review
Among the strengths, the DC100 has a fast autofocus and whose very satisfactory performance in low-light conditions are higher than those of most camcorders. The zoom switch is sufficiently responsive to guarantee a constant and slow zoom over the entire focal range. Moreover, the image stabilizer is incredibly effective, even with the deployed at maximum zoom (25x).
Unfortunately, the quality of the video never exceeds the acceptable category. In the best case (outdoors under a bright light or diffuse), images appear relatively sharp and well exposed, with accurate colors though lacking saturation. Overall, white balance of the DC100 is satisfactory both under natural light that procedure. However, even in these conditions, the image retains noise, and a fringe effect of action on the very contours and a contrasting effect curtain important level of saturated red. The dynamic range is also slightly reduced, resulting in areas of sky délavées, dull white and black turning gray.
The video shot in the dark is not as much noise as that which we have used the low-end camcorders Canon, but the DC100 is hard to reproduce details when the lights are low. As for photos, which are low resolution and present noise, it is better not to talk about it.
Canon DC100 Review (c)
Filed under Canon, Digital Cameras |
Simalar News
Comments are closed.