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| Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $899.99
Buy New: $529.00
You Save: $370.99 (41%)
New (30) Used (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  173 reviews
Sales Rank: 16
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Monitor Size: 270
Includes Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 12
Digital Zoom: 200
Display Size: 2.7
Maximum Focal Length: 57
Minimum Focal Length: 4.8
Maximum Resolution: 2070000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 2.9 x 2.5
nv:Size: 1/3.2-inch
Image Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Movie Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Storage Media: SD/SDHC Memory Card
Compressed Format: DPOF
Compressed Format: DCF Exif 2.2
Movie File Format: MPEG-4
Movie File Format: AVCHD (HD)
Optical Zoom: 12x
Digital Zoom: 200x
Focal Length: f=4.8-57.6 mm
LCD Monitor: 2.7-inches
LCD Pixels: 211,000 pixels
LCD Coverage: 100%
Maximum Aperture: f 1.8 - 3.0
White Balance Control: Auto
White Balance Control: Daylight
White Balance Control: Cloudy
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: HF100
Model: HF100
UPC: 013803092004
EAN: 0013803092004
ASIN: B00114162K
Availability: Pre-Order (0-0 Business Days)
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| Customer Reviews:
 Get Adobe Premier Elements 7 or Pinnacle Studio Plus 12 to edit your Canon AVCHD files! January 2, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While Adobe Premier Elements 7 is a big joke for the MP4 AVC/H.264 formats...it is a superstar with the AVCHD / .mts files this Canon HF10 generates.
Before I bought my own HF10 I was asked by a buddy to edit and burn some youth football footage from his newly acquired Canon HF10 with SDHC card. I was excited. Although I had no clue what an .mts file was Adobe PE 7 not only recognized it and imported it quickly...but I proceeded to edit both video and audio (together and separately)as well as burn to a regular DVD (not BluRay). My jaw just dropped and I said WOW!
I will add that while I am not a big fan of the GUI of Pinnacle Studio Plus 12 it also handles the AVCHD / .mts from the Canon HF10 just fine...and also handles those other MP4's just fine too.
The really important part is that while I have a nice amount of ram (4GB) my computer is nothing special at all. I am running Vista Basic on a Celeron 1.60Ghz processor (Dell Inspiron 530 desktop) with the 4GB of ram.
Now that I have purchased my OWN Canon HF10 AVCHD camcorder Adobe PE7 is my go-to program for this type of footage. Again, it handles the AVCHD / .mts file format flawlessly. Check out my other reviews for some other programs I have tried like Corel VideoStudio X2 and Magix - Movie Edit pro 14. If you are going to be working only with AVCHD, specifically from any of the Canon HF series camcorders that put .mts on sdhc flash cards...then I believe Adobe Premier Elements 7 is the best option.
Warning: If you are going to rely on ONE software solution for multiple formats other than AVCHD, Adobe PE7 is not the way to go! I use several little camera/camcorders other than the HF10. They all use the MP4 AVC/H.264 format...while the previous version of PE handled them fine, Adobe PE 7 HATES the MP4 format! You can't even add them to the time-line without it crashing! If you are looking for a single editing program to handle not only the AVCHD from the Canon HF10, HF11 or HF100 but other formats as well...specifically the MP4 AVC/H.264 format then I would go with Pinnacle Studio Plus 12. Like I said before, the interface and work flow is nothing like Adobe's but it works fin with the multiple formats.
 AWFUL software, no support January 2, 2009
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although the machine is well made, I cannot believe how bad the Pixela ImageMixer 3 software is that is included. I have now spent about 8 hours trying to export a video I made to my external DVD drive and all I keep getting is an obscure error message. There is no help built into the program, no online help and no help on the Canon site. I have registered for the software (which it says you must do for support) but there is still no support phone number or email. Canon should be embarrassed to have such bad software with their camcorder, it makes it unusable and a nightmare.
It's a great small camera January 1, 2009
I had the camera for almost 1 1/2 months, used it recently in Xmass. Hooked it yp to a HD TV, amazing picture, better than any cameral I owned in the past. t's a very compact camera. If you take video in HD you need to get a couple of 16GB or more of SD.
Great Camcorder- Very Easy to use January 1, 2009
After reading many reviews on various camcorders in the $500-$700, I was directed to the HF100 as the best 'bang for the buck'. I purchased the camcorder for basic family videos and the picture quality is outstanding. I have 2 HD TV's and and playback on them is superb. The unit is very small and easy to use. I highly recommend this camcorder!
Simply the best December 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this camera. I jumped in with a Cannon 8mm and then a S0ny DV DCR-HC21. So this camera isn't even in the same ball park. SDHC is the way. I can record the same amount of video on a 16G card as a tape if I go SHD. Also If you buy 16G SCHC cards buy them on amazon for around $25 and the battery is around $25 on Amazon to. Just type in BP-809. And get the Pinnacle Studio 12 ultimate software if you don't want to drop frames or have problems. like you guys that buy Sony software to download a Cannon camera. Come on. And Studio 12 is pretty cheap considering. you'll be able to burn HDDVD in your DVD burner and play them back on a newer blue ray player. You want to do that cause BD are $25 a piece not a 50 pak. And if you get the Paul Holtz video tuition you'll be miles ahead of any others in their software. Then you need at least a duel CPU or higher like quad core or even the newest i7 cause that's the market now, why buy a duel at this point? And at least 3G RAM DD2 and a 9800 video card. And lots of hard drive. The new SATA II 3G Hard drives are the way to go. So you just can't buy the camera. You also need all this stuff to install a Blue Ray burner to. As soon as I got this I did a test of my Sony Camcorder Vs a Nikon coolpix P4. I just thought the Sony camcorder had to be a better video. nope. Same video pixels as your SD cameras. So if you don't get this camera you might as well throw that old Digital camcorder out and use your cameras SD cards. And the HG20 with 60G hard drive is only $80 more. But I'm telling you again SDHC is the only way to go.
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