I came across this and thought I would share it with y'all.

Gene...

Canon Virtual Plant Tour (http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/tech/v_plant/main.html)

See also in the XH forum:
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/canon-xh-series-hdv-camcorders/467917-canon-video-how-camcorders-made-virtual-camcorder-plant.html

Hi Pete & Eugene:
Wow ! I own a Canon XL-H1 HDV camcorder, which I now use with my Convergent Design's Flash XDR solid state digital recorder. I am utterly amazed to see how Canon actually builds this kind of digital camcorder. It is great to know just how much ultra high end technology and design goes into the assembly of each XL series camera. I figured the main motherboard inside the H1 must be a complex-high end processing computer in order for the camera to do what it does, and the Canon video certainly demonstrated this.