What people think about the Canon HF100: (BETA!)
We compute this summary by analyzing 474 reviews from across the web.
The Canon HF100 is very good. Despite worries about the high price and software, reviewers like the clear video quality, user interface, and hd quality. If you can tolerate the price and software, mark this camcorder as an option.
price
2.5
- low price solid state camcorder no
- not an expensive camera
- incredible price
- more expensive cameras
- good price
- excellent hd quality for the price
user interface
4
- switch from easy
- user interface for special
- switch is very hard to
- slider is rather flimsy
- very good sound control
- like sony ms interface
- controls like
- good lens and manual controls
- controls are fairly intuitive
- easy set up button
- controls all brilliant
- easy controls
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video quality
4
- decent image quality
- excellent video quality
- quality video
- video quality and color is excellent
- image seems not very good
- excellent hd video quality
- film like
- great video
- very good hight definition video quality
- video still looks very unstable
- image stability seems not work
- powerful computer to edit video
- very good image quality
- recording on sdhc is nice
- recording at highest quality
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reliability
2
- problems
- no problems
- stability is excellent
- stability seems not work very good
- stability poor ois no
low light performance
2.5
- not so satisfactory low light performance
- low light performance is so so
- not great in low light
- fast auto focus even in low light
- not good for low light
- low light performance is surprisingly good
- pretty good in low light
- bright artificial lighting indoors
- low light performance is ok not great
- not fantastic is low light
- low light is not great
- poor low light performance
- indoor shooting was nice
- best results for indoors
- low light as well
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capacity
3
- highest quality per gig card
- card was intact and works
- memory is a great
- memory might be better
- small in capacity
- like the panasonic hdc sd
- lacks the hf's internal memory
- sd from the top
- transcend usb memory
- perfectly gb card
- versatile flash storage
- drive means great
- ordered a card
- fast sdhc card
- solid state memory
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still photos
4
- good video and photo
- great stills
- great pic quality
- very good photos
- photo are very good
- digital camera actually a yr old
- modern digital camera
- decent stills
software
2
- poor software
- expensive software
- camcorder pixela is buggy
- extra software
- terrible and software
- software was easy to
- software worked fine
- older software
hd quality
3.5
- true hd
- excellent hd
- hd models are inferior
- no different than a hd professional
- older software doesn support hd
- decent hd
- hd video at max quality
- best hd
- better pictures than freesat hd
- powerful to convert the hd
- true for any hd
- pointless recording in hd
- hd camcorder trust
- problems with any hd
- hd tv is awesome
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memory cards
3
- wonderfully easy to use the memory card
- convenience of flash memory is one not
- flash memory enables me to instantly
- lacks on board flash memory
- memory is a great
- solid state flash memory
- real time on the flash card
- memory card is too expensive
- transcend gig flash memory
- cards is much better
- memory might be better
- older sd cards
- transcend usb memory
- extra memory card
- cards are fast
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color
4
- color is excellent
- black color not available
- excellent color
- great it adjusts for color
- accurate color
menu system
4
- easy to setup with logical menus
- menus could be better
- easy to navigate the menu
- menus are easy to
lens quality
4
- good lens
- great zoom lens
- proper wide angle lens
- lens screw to fit
- fit filters lenses
- original lens
- lens and offers other great
- lens cap the automatic
- magnificent carl zeiss lens
- lens available
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