Can it get any better ?
Upon opening the box I was amazed by the FS10! It fits in the palm of your hand (about the size of a can of pop) and feels like a finely crafted piece of equipment. I started video taping two minutes later! Let's forgo the technical jargon and skip directly to the picture quality ... amazing! I was video taping in my store and instantly was impressed with how well the camera compensated for light shining through my windows. A quick scan around and I ask myself "how is this thing focusing so quickly?" Focus is instant and accurate. Now for the really cool thing - when out of zoom mode you can focus on the hair of a fly! Well I didn't try a fly but I could literally get within 1/2" of an object and still have instant focus. How do they do it? No having set it for macro focus it acts like the human eye. OK how about zooming you ask. Well we had a Comcast guy working on a telephone pole about 200' from my office. I was videoing through my window. The camera still had no problem focusing and the anti-shake feature of the camera worked incredibly. I've seen other anti-shake cameras and didn't like the digital blurring that occured. The FS10 somehow has eliminated the blurring. I actually zoomed in on the tool belt of the Comcast guy and could read the brand name! No exaggeration. OK now for the real test ... transferring the video to my computer. Previously I hooked my audio/video cables up to my video capture card and then went through a long process of capturing and then coverting and then putting the video on dvd. With the FS10 I loaded the software plugged in the usb cable selected my video from a thumbnail explorer type of program and 1 minute later was watching my video with Windows media player. The file is MPEG straight out of the camcorder! REMEMBER this camcorder has no tape so all you are really doing is transferring a file from the camcorder to your harddrive. Burning a DVD from there is a no brainer. What else? Well no moving parts to wear out. Yea you do have a zoom but that's about it. I did think the zoom button had a cheap feel but not bad. One last thing. I videoed in a dimmly lit room last night. The picture was grainy. Not real impressed with that but maybe there is a setting for low light. I did turn on the video light and that helped a great deal. Canon uses an LED light - so minimal battery consumption when using the light. All in all very impressive!More detail ...
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