Canon Legria HF-S10 Expert Reviews

alaTest has collected and analyzed 81 reviews from magazines and websites. Reviewers really like the design. The interface also impresses, but many are less positive about the memory.

Design, Interface, Battery, Connectivity

Memory, Viewfinder

Experts rate this product 82/100 and users 88/100. We analyzed these ratings, the product age and more factors. Compared to other Camcorders, the Canon Legria HF-S10 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 100/100 = Excellent quality.

The overall image quality, deep manual controls, and decent ease of use make Canon's Vixia HF S10 an excellent choice for both advanced and casual videographers.

Good overall video quality; deep and advanced manual controls

Mediocre battery life; no viewfinder

The camera's 1/2.6-inch CMOS imaging chip records 1080 horizontal lines of video; it records 1080i at 60 frames per second, 1080p at 30 frames per second, and 1080p at 24 frames per second. The camera includes 32GB of built-in flash memory and ...

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Great video quality in bright and low light. Built like a miniature tank. Oodles of shooting features, including Cine mode and multiple frame rates

Design has the potential to be more omnipotent. Certain low light environments are too noisy. Short battery life

That's not to say the Canon Vixia HF S10 is the camcorder to end all camcorders. From a design standpoint, the HF S10 looks as though Canon fused a 2.7-inch LCD onto the side of a giant lens barrel and called it a day. Aside from a sexy concoction of ...

A handful of minor complaints couldn't keep us from falling in love with this outstanding shooter.

Beautiful video; excellent stills; quality optical image stabilization; easy to operate

LCD should be better; expensive; heavy; average wind noise reduction; no 5.1 surround

Pure Digital's Flip has proven that it's possible to build a super-small flash memory camcorder and offer it up for fewer than two hundred bucks. But there are tradeoffs with going small and cheap, like optics and battery life. Canon takes a ...

Improved audio quality. Big, bright lens. Speedy processor. Lots of creative control options. More intuitive menus than previous generation Canon camcorders

Loose lens cover noisier than cutlery caught in a garbage disposal. Still images cam come off looking a bit overexposed

Canon Vixia HF S10 First Impressions Review

Canon Vixia HF S10 First Impressions Review

The VIXIA HF S10 delivers brilliant video and photos through a new Canon exclusive 8.59 Megapixel CMOS image sensor and the latest version of our adva

Offering top-notch performance and video quality, the flash-based Legria HF S10 is an excellent high-definition camcorder with a good, functional design. As long as you can live without an electronic viewfinder, you'll find it provides a better ...

Excellent video quality and performance ; nicely designed interface ; fast battery charging

No eye-level viewfinder ; expensive ; lens cover rattles when closed

The Canon Legria HF S10 is an excellent flash-based, prosumer, high-definition camcorder. The lack of an eye-level viewfinder may put some off though, while others will find the almost identical, but cheaper, S100 a better buy