Canon HG10 Expert Reviews

Besides shooting video, you can take stills up to 2048x1536 pixels in a choice of three quality settings. Your pics are saved to a mini-SD card, which you'll have to supply yourself. The good-quality lens provides 10x optical zoom, and full menu and ...

Video without tapes - or compromises. The cutting edge of consumer camcorders.

The HG10 is light and comfortable to hold

Superb images ; Very easy to manage clips ; Native support in iMovie ’08 ; Good stills performance

Some ergonomic mistakes ; Opaque menu system

Yes, its expensive. Yes, few people have the displays to play back full HD in all its glory. And yes, youre going to have to invest in some serious storage to archive this footage rather than simply filing cheap tapes. But still, this is a lovely ...

When we recently gave Canon's HR10 AVCHD cam a workout and were seriously impressed by what it offered for the relatively small asking price of £600. This time around it's the turn of its higher specified brethren, the HG10.

Impressive features set, Powerful, with excellent performance, Great set of features, Excellent picture-performance, Good lens, Spectra Ambilight is a showstopper, Superb pictures, Highly impressive sound, Reasonable feature count, Well built, Well ...

Poor battery life, Chunky build, Not the cheapest compact around, Massively expensive, Could overly dominate a room, Average performance, Overly small controls, Overpriced, Drab design, Handling noise occasionally captured, Expensive

A well-specified performer with an innovative approach to navigation and manual operation that is capable of impressive pictures and sound.

Canon gets hard-corder

Video quality; Memory; HDMI connection

Bit pricey

Canon come out fighting into the HDD market

Canon's first camcorder with a hard disk drive makes its debut. Is James Morris impressed?

Although the HG10 doesn't bowl us over quite as much as the HV20, it's still an impressive piece of kit. Sony's lower end HDR-SR5E undercuts it on price considerably, but misses out key features such as a standard-sized accessory shoe. The more fully ...

A great all-round camera, the HG10 is streamlined towards delivering high quality video in ideal conditions. The lack of manual controls may frustrate advanced users, however most will find it to be an excellent camcorder.

Great image quality, easy to use, customisable recording qualities

Lack of manual controls, slightly lowered performance in low light settings

A great all-round camera, the HG10 is streamlined towards delivering high quality video in ideal conditions. The lack of manual controls may frustrate advanced users, however most will find it to be an excellent camcorder

In Canon's new HG10 digital video camera we see many of the components of the HV20 camcorder, which we reviewed in May. Both models use the same high definition camera system, which combines a 1920 x 1080 True Progressive HD CMOS sensor with an ...

Video footage recorded with the test camera was very impressive. Colour reproduction was natural looking under natural lighting and acceptable with most artificial light sources. We found little evidence of glitches or compression artefacts in the ...

With its large CMOS imaging chip, 40GB hard disc drive, superb lens, 10x optical zoom, 2.7" LCD and heaps of functionality, is the HG10 as good as AVCHD high definition can possibly get?

The AVCHD system might entail heavy compression, but the results from the CMOS imaging device are stunning; colour, contrast and resolution are excellent and the cam doesnâ-'t suffer from low-noise artefacts in the way that its major competitors do. ...

For a camera with so many young technologies on board, this is a surprisingly mature product

Very good video, Managing clips like they're stills is refreshing, Competitively priced

Some ergonomic compromises, Not easy to control manually, Room for improvement in audio

The HG10 shoots great video and handles well, but there are some ergonomic compromises, and while it's not good enough to be a pro camcorder, it's not cheap enough for most consumers. Regardless, its performance and sheer allure mark it out as a ...

The Canon HG10 camcorder has excellent image stabilization and generally great video quality

Poor audio control ; smallish EVF ; some annoying ergonomics ; no manual focus dial

A solid hard-drive based HD camcorder, the Canon HG10 nevertheless has its share of annoying quirks.