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Canon VIXIA HF S100 1080p Camcorder

When asked by friends and colleagues what camcorder to use for filmming your daily life with a professional look; I always recommend the VIXIA HF S100 by Canon (retails for around $900 USD).  This tiny 1080p HD camera delivers brilliant video and photos through a Canon exclusive 8.59 megapixel CMOS image sensor and the latest version of the advanced image processor, DIGIC DV III.  It is lightweight, compact in size and easy to use (flash memory cards).  We use this camera as a ‘floater’ for documentaries, concerts, weddings, interviews, fun stuff!  We sup it up with additional audio packaging for more involved work, however the on board volume recording controls of a small camera like this one are really killer.   A friend of mine in South Africa took this little camera for a test drive and loaded up the footage online that he had shot of his mother’s restaurant and I was sold!  The VIXIA HF S100 can record up to 6 hours of crisp, high definition video to a removable SDHC card.   What’s more, the VIXIA HF S100 allows you to record at up to 24Mbps, the highest bit rate in AVCHD format, for the highest quality image.  The VIXIA HF S100′s Canon Exclusive features – such as the genuine Canon 10x HD video lens, sophisticated genuine Canon face detection capability, SuperRange optical image stabilization and a host of control and creative options – makes the flash memory camcorder unmistakably Canon.  The entire VIXIA camcorder line is pretty cool, but the HF S100 is the way to go!