Canon's new XL2 camera offers an evolution in design and new features professionals, including the ability to select 60i, 24p or 30p, 4:3 or HD 16:9 frame rates, new 680,000 pixel progressive scan CCD, and one line complete of parameterizable controls to taste, in order to obtain cinema quality results. Along with your new lenses Interchangeable 20x, this new Mini-DV camcorder gives film and video cameramen a tool of acquisition totally made to measure and of high quality.
The XL2 replaces one of the most successful and emblematic products in the history of Canon, the XL1S. The new Canon XL2 camera evolves to concept of "open architecture" of its predecessors, the XL1 and XL1S, beyond the design of their packaging in order to include a wide range of cinema-style shots made to the measurement, and control of previously unavailable enhanced images in Mini-DV formats.
"Our purpose is provide an economical, high-performance camcorder Mini-DV, for both professionals and amateurs Yukiaki Hashimoto, senior vice president and General Manager of the Consumer Imaging Group at Canon USA, Inc. "By over-designing Intentionally this product, Canon expects the XL2 video recorder will immediately become popular among filmmakers of film, documentaries, and among cameramen corporate, electronic news, wedding and event news, since it offers them the features, control and versatility they need."
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Image quality/ratio
appearance
The scanning system
Progressive 3CCD employed by the XL2 provides 16:9 recording
(962 x 480 pixels) and 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels). Processing
of LSI (large-scale integrated circuits) of third
Camcorder generation improves signal to
noise in order to achieve better resolution than the XL1S.
Speed options
Pictures
The XL2 camcorder
provides users with the necessary speed options of
frames in order to achieve a wide range of shots of
filming. The XL2 is characterized by frame rates of
60i, 30p, 24p (2:3 and 2:3:3:2), for any standard of
recording of the video for television or video, intended to be
transferred to film, with an extremely high resolution, of
so that the cinematographers and cameramen of the
Electronic newscasts have the flexibility to create
virtually any shot or sensation.
When shots are made at 30p, the Camera operator has the ability to capture up to 30 complete frames per second. When taking sporting events, users can freeze an image, capture the entire frame, or pass it in slow motion for a "instant play" effect.
The 24p frame rate (2:3:3:2) has been widely adopted today by those who transfer video to film. But producers have moved to 24p for your cinema-like shots even if their productions are not expected to be transferred to film, simply by the 24p frame rate quality. So important as the frame rate of 24p, is the speed of 1/48th of a second shutter, set as standard for film cameras. The combination of the speed of frames of the XL2 and its shutter speed of 1/48º per second, they are the same ones found in a film camera of cinema.
When producers record 24p with 2:3 reduction feature, a video is achieved with the look and feel of a movie. The 24p frame rate used in conjunction with a curve Cinema range adjustment on the XL2, produces images that have characteristics of shades similar to those of the films. This mode is used when the finished video will be presented on television, while 24p, with a reduction from 2:3:3:2, is used when the video will be transferred to film (2:3:3:2 reduction allows editing software extract true boxes of 24 shots per second).
Color and control similar to
cinema
With large producers and
others not very well known that migrate to digital video to
meet your movie creation needs, it imposes itself
a growing emphasis on delivering video with the appearance of
cinema. The Canon XL2 camcorder offers the
users the ability to make their video recordings
according to your needs, adjusting a number of variables:
gamut, Knee, black, color matrix, vertical detail,
fine, Coring, noise reduction, color gain, phase
of color and grain of film. Each of these variables can be
adjusted independently, and in this way the operator of
the camera has precise video control with appearance of
film.
Professional videographers Video requires control of camera settings. The XL2 features full automatic fine-tuning of RGB master gain; configuration level; pedestal teacher; detail of Skin; AE programming; profit; AE displacement and blocking; white balance; Speeds shutter; opening control; zebra pattern; deletion of scan and interval timer, with which the professionals have full control of the image. The Camera operators can create three configurations presets of your camera settings, which can be employees at a later date or shared with another camcorder XL2 over an IEEE 1394 connection.
White balance can be set to true white or manually adapted to outdoor (5,600 K) or indoor (3,200 K). The operators of the Camera can store up to three personal balance settings white. Video gain is now available in seven steps, from -3 dB to +18 dB, including your new setting of gain of +3 dB.
