Canon Vixia HF S10

The wait is finally over for Canon's premiere Full HD camcorder beast. Check out our exclusive Canon Vixia HF S10 review here.

Review summary of the Canon Vixia HF S10:

Most of the frenzied camcorder hype seemed to be centered around the Canon Vixia HF S10 this year at CES. Could the HF S10 leap from building to building while solving world peace? We're here to tell you that Canon has made one prodigious stride with the introduction of this AVCHD monster, but we feel that the company sacrificed a lot of prosumer potential for the sake of the consumer crowd. That's not to say the HF S10 is destined for rich dads and soccer moms. Its arsenal of advanced features and dense menus would send newbies running for the hills. You can shoot commercials, short films and b-roll with the Vixia HF S10, but you'll have to find a killer external microphone and invest in a set of professional lights. If Canon added a little more radioactive slime to the vat, we think we'd be seeing a viable alternative to a prosumer cam. In the end, we have a compact camcorder that blesses us with one of the best video performances we've seen in the consumer circuit, but we were left licking our jowls, thirsting for more. Release: March 2009. Price: $1300. Pros: Great video quality in bright and low light. Built like a miniature tank. Oodles of shooting features, including Cine mode and multiple frame rates. Cons: Design has the potential to be more omnipotent. Certain low light environments are too noisy. Short battery life.