Category Archives: High Definition Video Camera

On September 18 of 2005, Canon broke new ground in the digital video camera industry, announcing the XL H1, which was Canon’s first DVC featuring high definition.  Originally developed based on the needs of professional and enthusiast videographers, the XL H1 retains the operability of Canon’s very popular XL2 while increasing the professional function and … Continue reading

The central part of a DV camcorder is the CCD, or Charge Coupled Device.  This sensor creates a video picture by recording the light intensity to recognize an image or shape, along with the color levels to reproduce a full color picture. There are several tape based DV camcorders that have both color eyepiece viewfinders … Continue reading

Working with the video of camcorders such as the Sony HDR-HC1 can produce a serious business.  HD video contains four times the number of pixels that standard definition offers, and it’s much more heavily compressed. Keep in mind that you need a powerful computer with a lot of memory to deal with the extra data … Continue reading

It’s quite impossible to choose a camera without knowing which format best fits your needs.  Below, you’ll find many of the most popular formats. DVCPRO HD Based on the standard definition of DVCPRO format, the DVCPRO HD from Panasonic uses a data rate of 120 MBps and intraframe compression, both of which will provide strong … Continue reading

HD, or high definition, is creating quite a lot of interest, due to some very high spirited campaigning done by the cable networks wanting you to buy HD boxes to watch HD on television.  What you may not be aware of, is the fact that HD is delivered in a widescreen format of 16:9 instead … Continue reading

A while back, Sony, Sharp, Canon and JVC announced the creation of a new high definition video standard for video cameras – HDV.  HDV utilizes MPEG-2 image compression with a definition of 1080 lines and a 16:9 aspect ratio. Shortly after that, Sony opened the door to high definition by creating the first HDV camcorder, … Continue reading

HDTV or high definition television normally refers to any video system of higher resolution than the standard definition.  The original HD specifications date back to the early 1980s, when Japan first experimented with a 1025 line television standard. Japan presented their parameters at an international meeting of television engineers in Algiers in 1981 and Japan’s … Continue reading

At first look, the JVC HD100 looks like any other high definition camera with a lot of switches, dials, and places to plug in peripherals.  In operation, it functions like an old regular video camera.  You don’t really need to do anything special to make a high definition recording, just press a button – although … Continue reading

The amazing company of JVC (Victor Company of Japan) released the first high definition video camera for consumers back in 2003.  The GR-HD1 high def camera was the first digital video camera in the world to record and play back high definition images. By utilizing a newly developed 1/3 inch type 1.18 million pixel progressive … Continue reading

If you’ve been looking for a high definition video camera, there are many out there for you to choose from.  In this article, we will take a look at some of your options available in each of the different formats. HDV JVC, Sony, and Canon all produce HDV cameras of various stripes and abilities.  The … Continue reading

All video cameras contain 3 major components – the lens, imager, and recorder.  The lens gathers and focuses the light on the imager, which is normally a charge coupled device (CCD) or CMOS sensor IC.  Finally, the recorder will encode the video signal into a form that can be stored. Commonly, the optics and imager … Continue reading

The Panasonic AG-HVX200 is a handheld HD p2 camera recorder that’s designed to meet the emerging needs needs in HD content production.  The camera debuts and remains Panasonic’s first HD video product to use P2, the cutting edge memory recording device that has the potential to revolutionize the entire production paradigm. The AG-HVX200 can record … Continue reading

With the growing popularity of the variable frame rate VariCam HD Cinema cameras, HD production is on the verge of changing HD video cameras as we know it.  The low cost 24p editing and finishing on the desktop, is what Panasonic likes to call a VariDigm shift. It all starts inside of the camera.  The … Continue reading

If you are new to HD video cameras, you’ve probably found yourself wondering if you really need to have one around.  For a majority of people, a HD video camera represents the best way to capture memories and pictures with the best technology available today. For producers or those looking to start their own productions, … Continue reading