Canon Adds Hard Drive to Camcorder

Canon is trying to remove one of the pain points of shooting HD video — frequent disc swapping — with a new camcorder that includes a 40GB hard drive. The on-board storage in the new HG10 AVCHD is good for 15 hours of HD footage. The camcorder has 10x zoom lens, optical image stabilization, single-cable […]

Canon is trying to remove one of the pain points of shooting HD video -- frequent disc swapping -- with a new camcorder that includes a 40GB hard drive. The on-board storage in the new HG10 AVCHD is good for 15 hours of HD footage.

The camcorder has 10x zoom lens, optical image stabilization, single-cable connection to an HD TV set and several still photo options. Look for it in October, priced at $1,300.

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Canon U.S.A.'s High Definition Hard Disk Drive Camcorder Expands HD Recording Options for Consumers [Canon]