{"id":414,"date":"2008-04-20T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mini.local\/blog\/index.php?entry=entry080420-184010"},"modified":"2008-04-20T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T22:40:10","slug":"canon-vixia-hf100-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Canon Vixia HF100: First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001144JQU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=deflix\" target=\"_blank\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biosrhythm.com\/wp-content\/images\/canon-vixia-hf100.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"139\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"img_float_right\" \/><\/a>I recently obtained a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001144JQU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=deflix\" target=\"_blank\" >Canon VIXIA HF-100 HD camcorder<\/a>.  The first thing I noticed is the unit is extremely light, even with the tiny battery installed.  You can look up the exact weight, but spec sheets can&#039;t replace holding the unit in your hands.<\/p>\n<p>It has a nice solid feel, the interface isn&#039;t overrun with buttons everywhere.  There is a simple finger-tip joystick interface for all of the obscured menus to change functions of the camera.  It has 16GB of internal flash memory with an SDHC slot for an additional card&#8211; I used another 16GB card.  Over the weekend, I never came close to running out of space.  It always displays the recording time left both for the memory available and the battery life.  There are four recording &#8220;speeds&#8221; that translate into resolution and data rate changes.<\/p>\n<p>It has an AV\/headphone out port that is selectable in the software as well as an external 1\/8&#8243; mic port in which is really nice to have.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem I&#039;m running into is it&#039;s very unfriendly to use with a Mac.  Despite the fact that AVCHD (the format it records in) is MPEG-4 H.264 standards based video, Quicktime doesn&#039;t recognize it, no fault of the recorder but instead of Apple for not providing double-click view of the .MTS file format in Quicktime.  The provided software on CD-ROM is only for the still image capabilities of the camera, not the video side (really, who uses their camcorder as a still camera?).  You can use it with Final Cut Pro 6 and iMovie 8 provided you have an Intel Mac, something which I lack at the present moment.  Hopefully this will be forthcoming and you&#039;ll be able to double-click and view the videos right off the card.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#039;ll update later once I&#039;m able to scrutinize the picture quality after I&#039;m able to view it on my 30&#8243; monster screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently obtained a Canon VIXIA HF-100 HD camcorder. The first thing I noticed is the unit is extremely light, even with the tiny battery installed. You can look up the exact weight, but spec sheets can&#039;t replace holding the unit in your hands. It has a nice solid feel, the interface isn&#039;t overrun with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}