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10x optical zoom, 200x digital zoom, 535 gram, 2.7 inch LCD, Stereo More product info

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Based on 12 expert reviews, the average rating for Canon HV30 is 4.3/5. Expert Reviews for Camcorders are gathered from magazines and web sites around the world. Read summaries of the English reviews below.

 
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alaTest Title:

Review summary of Canon HV30

(13/10/08)
Summary: Read the full review
Verdict: Experts rate this product 87/100 and users 79/100. Comparing these reviews to 58129 other Camcorders reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™ 96/100 = Excellent.
Country: US
96.0 / 100.0
Testwinner Title:

Canon HV30

(06/10/08)
Summary: 2 experts have reviewed the Canon HV30, giving it an average score of 85 out of 100... Read the full review
Country: UK
85.0 / 100.0
Testwinner US Title:

Canon HV30

(06/10/08)
Summary: 2 experts have reviewed the Canon HV30, giving it an average score of 85 out of 100... Read the full review
Country: US
85.0 / 100.0
Testseek US Title:

Canon HV30

(06/08/08)
Summary: 21 experts have reviewed this product and the average expert score is 85 of 100. Read the full review
Country: US
85.0 / 100.0
Stuff.tv Title:

Canon HV30

(17/06/08)
Summary: Mini DV tape isn't dead yet and this Canon is here to prove it. But is it just a rehash of last year's model?... Read the full review
Verdict: Not much to tempt you over last year's HV20 but Canon still rules the roost when it comes to raw picture quality
Country: UK
5.0 / 5.0
TrustedReviews Title:

Canon HV30

(14/06/08)
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Verdict: Canon's tape-based HV20 was one of the best HDV camcorders around, so does its successor, the HV30, take things further?
Country: UK
9.0 / 10.0
Laptop Magazine Title:

Canon Vixia HV30

(28/03/08)
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Cons: ; Noise and focus difficulty in low light No significant software bundle
Country: US
4.0 / 5.0
CNET.com Title:

Canon Vixia HV30

(25/02/08)
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Verdict: An extremely minor upgrade from the HV20, the Canon Vixia HV30 remains a quality HDV camcorder with a couple of performance issues.
Pros: ; Generally excellent video quality; solid feature set for its class; well designed
Cons: ; Tape housing feels a bit flimsy; fixed eye-level viewfinder needs a better eye cup; manual focus dial a bit loose
Country: US
8.0 / 10.0
Camcorderinfo.com Title:

Canon HV30 Camcorder Review

(28/01/08)
Summary: The Canon HV30 ($999 MSRP) is the replacement model for the much celebrated HV20, winner of our 2007 Camcorder of the Year award, along with three other awards. Canon has decided not to mess with a winning formula too much. The small list of upgrades includes a 30fps frame mode (in addition to 24p and 60i), an better zoom toggle, an... Read the full review
Country: US
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PC Advisor Title:

Canon Vixia HV30 review


Summary: Read the full review
Country: UK
4.0 / 5.0
CNET.co.uk Title:

Canon HV30 review


Summary: : A well-designed prosumer camcorder with a useful feature set... Read the full review
Verdict: An extremely minor upgrade from the HV20, the Canon HV30 remains a quality HDV camcorder with a couple of performance issues
Pros: ; Generally excellent video quality; solid feature set for its class; well designed
Cons: ; Tape housing feels flimsy; fixed eye-level viewfinder needs a better eye cup; manual focus dial loose
Country: UK
8.0 / 10.0
SimplyDV.co.uk Title:

Canon HV30 HDV/MiniDV Camcorder


Summary: All in all, the HV30 is a very good camcorder indeed and every bit as good as the model it replaces. It is, of course, very odd that a company like Canon should seek to replace one year's model with another whose specification and even form-factor is apparently identical to that it replaces, especially since the only change seems to be... Read the full review
Country: UK
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Techradar Title:

Canon HV30


Summary: We preferred the picture quality from this HV30 (MiniDV tape) compared to the Sony HDR-S11 (hard drive) camcorder we reviewed last month. Both are similarly priced, and offer a similar range of features. Both can import footage straight into iMovie. The key difference is the formats. MiniDV is a cassette tape format that records using... Read the full review
Pros: ; >Superb stills and video> Tried and tested format> Better image quality than HDD models> Faster import than HDD models
Cons: ; >Cumbersome to use> Last year's HV20 is essentially identical
Country: UK
4.5 / 5.0

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