Canon Camcorder

Canon Camcorder History

Till now, Canon camcorder has experienced two major periods: movie camera and digital camcorder.

Movie camcorder

From 1956 to 1982, Canon produced many movie camcorders, such as:

They are some but all the Canon movie camcorders. During this period, Canon has made many similar camcorders, after all.

Digital Camcorder

After digital recording became a norm, Canon began to make digital camcorders. The early examples:
Canon DV 012
Canon XL-1/XL-1s
Canon XL-2

Now the tapeless camcorders like Canon C300, C500 are most popular.

Shooting formats

NTSC configuration: 1080: 60i, 30f, 24f. / 480: 60i, 30f, 24f.

PAL configuration: 1080: 50i, 25f. / 576: 50i, 25f.

Common video recording format

AVI, file extension .avi, is the earliest file format. As AVI files are not compressed, a seconds long movie may be as large 8MB. As there is no standard for AVI, so, there are many AVI formats in the digital world. MOV, file extension .mov, is used by most camcorders. This is mainly due to its advanced compression technology, which provides uses good options even in the low resolution, plus the QuickTime Player was supported by Apple Mac.

MPG, MPEG-1, or Motion JPEG was ever one of the popular recording formats when the VCD is popular, now, few camcorders use this as recording format.

Other formats:

ASF, GIF, RM.

Canon camcorder series

Till now, Canon has made many popular series camcorders; the list below will show you some examples.