After completing my degree in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas, I managed a video production studio "back in the tape days" while waiting for the digital video revolution to arrive and for the internet to become mainstream. Things started to get interesting in November of 1997 when I launched The XL1 Watchdog, my first web site dedicated to digital video technology. In January of 2001, that site morphed into DV Info Net — the Digital Video Information Network. More than fifteen years later, the longevity of DV Info Net is exceeded now only by its popularity and reputation as one of the leading technology information resources in the broadcast and professional video markets.
Friday July 31st 2009, Sydney Australia – What can you buy for a dollar? A cup of coffee? A bus ticket? A packet of gum, perhaps? What if you could buy one of the world’s premium live handheld dynamic microphones?…
CineForm has launched a new product family called CineDDR. Developed in partnership with Drastic Technologies, CineDDR provides direct-to-disk recording of HD video sources as an alternative to tape-based recording whose workflows are common for feature film and television post production.…
NEW CANON HYBRID IS WORLD’S FIRST IMAGE STABILIZER TO COMPENSATE FOR TWO TYPES OF CAMERA SHAKE LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., July 22, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, announced today the development of Hybrid Image Stabilizer (IS),…
Today at CineGear 2009 in Hollywood, GlueTools, a Santa Barbara software company specializing in motion picture plug-ins for Final Cut Studio, is announcing a workflow for Canon D-SLR cameras and Final Cut Pro. The product is a log and transfer…
East Texas County Seat Produces Magazine, PSAs and More with Handheld AVCCAMs SECAUCUS, NJ (May 28, 2009) – The city of Bryan, TX, the county seat of Brazos County in East Texas, has made Panasonic’s AG-HMC150 professional handheld AVCCAM camcorder…
Stop the presses… just received from Canon USA via email: Canon U.S.A., Inc., will be issuing a greatly anticipated firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR Camera. This new firmware will accommodate a great number of user…
DV Info Net Names Harms New Business Development Director New to DV Info Net, but not new to the television and film production industry, is John Harms, who will be assuming responsibilities for new business development. John has been involved…
Keep in mind that despite what you see here, there’s no actual difference in the body color of these two camcorders. They’re identical to their big brother, the XL H1, in basic black.
Here are some more views of the Canon G1 and A1 camcorders, from various angles. You can click on most of these to see a bigger version which will open up in a new browser window. You might notice that the camera body color is inconsistent throughout most of these images.
In brief… these two new Canon XH series HDV camcorders are the latest additions to Canon’s expanding line of High Definition video cameras. The XH series twins are smaller, lighter and less expensive than Canon’s flagship XL H1 camcorder; each delivers about the same performance as the XL H1 and they are nearly identical to each other with only one very important difference.