Canon HV30 manual Stunning Digital Photography, Megapixel Full HD Cmos, Focus Features

Stunning Digital Photography

Canon’s advanced image processing technology means your HD camcorder is also a high performance digital camera capable of capturing stunning 2.76 Megapixel photos in 4:3 aspect ratio to a miniSD ™ card (2.07 Megapixels at 16:9). It’s like having an HD digital video camcorder and digital still camera -- all rolled into one. What’s more, the VIXIA HV30’s many advanced photo features make it a camera that rivals other state-of-the-art digital cameras. With Canon technology, it’s not just video and photos -- it’s the best of both.

2.96 Megapixel Full HD CMOS

The same Canon Exclusive 2.96 Megapixel Full HD CMOS image sensor that ensures sharp, vivid HD video also gives you brilliant digital photographs. Like the CMOS image sensors in Canon’s EOS Series digital SLR cameras, the VIXIA HV30’s image sensor results in outstanding digital photographs. It gives an impressive resolution of 1920 x 1440 for sharp, crisp still images.

DIGIC DV II

DIGIC DVII, a Canon Exclusive, enables improved continuous shooting of digital photographs with the VIXIA HV30. You can shoot 5 (3.1 Megapixel) still images per second, and enjoy faster processing of your images to your memory card (1.4x normal card; 2.5x Hi Speed card).

Focus Features

Auto Intelligent Auto Focus ensures sharp images and gives creative

flexibility. Even when your subject isn’t in the center of the frame, the VIXIA HV30’s Ai-AF will automatically select from 9 metering frames on the screen to help bring images into sharp focus.

Since it is critical to achieve very sharp focus when shooting in High Definition, the VIXIA HV30 camcorder features Canon’s revolutionary and exclusive Instant AF focusing system. It offers a dramatic improvement in auto focus speed and accuracy (compared to traditional autofocus systems). The Instant AF feature uses an external sensor, in combination with Canon’s autofocus system, to help significantly decrease the time it takes to find focus, even in low light conditions. This new system achieves focus instantaneously, reducing focus “hunting.” The benefits of Instant AF are especially seen in high brightness, and night shooting situations. It’s even possible to achieve fast, accurate focusing, even when following a moving subject. And because a properly focused subject is more critical than ever with HD, the VIXIA HV30 also features Focus Assist. This helps in capturing your subject in razor sharp focus. (When you start recording, this assistance is automatically cancelled.)

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