Ad: Manage updates with the Download App
ie8 fix

flash-based camcorders

Canon FS22, FS21, and FS20 Quick Take

The Canon FS22, FS21, and FS20 Dual Flash Memory camcorders are standard-definition models featuring 2.7-inch LCDs and 37x optical zooms. Along with recording video to SD/SDHC memory cards, these models have 32GB, 16GB, and 8GB of internal storage, respectively. The FS20 is available through Best Buy only.

The Canon FS22/21/20 Dual Flash Memory camcorders have not been reviewed, but we are in the process of getting the product for hands-on testing. However, we have reviewed the Canon FS200, which is nearly identical, though it has no fixed internal storage and uses a 680,000-pixel CCD image … Read more

Canon FS200 is small standard-def success

When I say the Canon FS200 is a success, it should be interpreted as "the video's not perfect, but the results are pretty good all things considered and the rest of it is a great package."

After all, there are cell phones and cheap pocket cameras with higher resolutions than your average SD camcorder. Also, video quality is very much in the eye of the viewer, so even defects in low-quality movies can be overlooked depending on who's watching what.

That being said, about the only major issue with the specs and design of the FS200 … Read more

Flashy Canon SD camcorders

Though late to the flash-based camcorder party, Canon is showing that it sure knows how to boogie down with three new standard-definition models, two of which can record to built-in flash memory in addition to SDHC cards. Similar to Sony's Hybrid Plus feature, Canon is calling its version Dual Flash Memory, for obvious reasons.

All these new models, which make up the FS series, also include Canon's new Advanced Zoom system, which sounds suspiciously like digital zoom, but according to Canon doesn't produce any noticeable degradation of the captured video. They make a decent argument for this, … Read more