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Canon Vixia HF S100 / Legria HF S100 Reviews

Camcorder - High Definition - widescreen - 8.59 Mpix - optical zoom: 10 x - flash card More product details

$769.00

Excellent video quality and performance ; nicely designed interface ; fast battery charging (cnet.com)

Great for novice and medium skill users, Easy to hold, Face detection, Minimal digital noise (electronicsme.com)

alaTest Review Summary for Canon Vixia HF S100 / Legria HF S100

We have collected and analyzed 11 expert reviews and 60 user reviews from international sources. Experts rate this product 74/100 and users rate it 88/100. The average review date is July 23, 2009. We have compared these reviews to 105250 reviews from other Camcorders. The alaScore™ for this product is 93/100 = Excellent. Last update: November 19, 2009.

alaSCORE 93

930100

71 reviews

November, 2009

74 / 100

11 Experts

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88 / 100

60 Users

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Expert Reviews (11)

US

Canon Vixia HF S100

By (cnet.com)

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

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

An excellent flash-based prosumer HD camcorder, you may nevertheless pass on the Canon Vixia HF S100 because it lacks an eye-level viewfinder. It's probably a better buy than the identical--but more expensive, because it has 32GB built-in memory- ...

While Canon continues to offer compact AVCHD models, the Vixia HF20 and the...

Rating

80100

Partner Source
cnet.com
US

Canon Vixia HF S100

By (electronicsme.com)

The feature set and HD offering from Canon is absolutely a major contender in the camcorder market. While it appears to be a bit pricey those who are looking to enter the camcorder market would be advised to invest in a HD camcorder from the get go as ...

Great for novice and medium skill users, Easy to hold, Face detection, Minimal digital noise

The Canon Vixia HF S100 camcorder offers up a high definition camcorder...

Canon Vixia HF S100 Review: The Canon Vixia HF S100 camcorder offers up a...

Rating

80100

Partner Source
electronicsme.com
US

Canon Vixia HF S100 Review

By Mike Perlman (infosyncworld.com)

A new Big Bad Canon Vixia camcorder rocks our world. Read our in-depth Canon Vixia HF S100 review to see if it will rock yours too.

Excellent overall video quality. Solidly constructed. Tons of shooting features, including multiple frame rates

Canon could have made this thing a monster. Lots of blue noise in low light. Chomps through batteries

Staring us straight in the face is a massive Canon HD Video lens with a 58mm filter diameter, the same diameter as Canon's GL2 prosumer standard-definition camcorder from a few years back. This means a compatibility with advanced filters and lens ...

Rating

85100

infosyncworld.com

User Reviews (60)

US

"Can accomplish everything!"

By solaceinsorrow (cnet.com)

Quality is amazing. Can accomplish everything you need it to

No EVF (LCD great though)

US

"Excellent HD picture quality"

By anets (cnet.com)

I recently got a new HFS100 after going back ... 

Excellent picture quality and daylight performance - colors are quite accurately captured

Does not record video at full HD on latest class 10 Sandisk Extreme III SDHC cards even though canon requires "class 4 or higher" SD cards & specifically recommends Sandisk

US

"Ridiculous Camera"

By bumpydumpy (cnet.com)

For all the negatives I've read about this ca... 

Image quality, huge lens, huge cmos sensor, comfortable, sexy, pro

Some people would say the lens cover rattles. (Um, who cares?)

Manufacturer's Description

The VIXIA HF S100 delivers brilliant video and photos through a Canon exclusive 8.59 megapixel CMOS image sensor and the latest version of the advanced image processor, DIGIC DV III. It combines lightweight, compact size and the ease and convenience of flash memory. This technology, the same used in advanced laptop computers, MP3 players, PDAs and cell phones, allows the VIXIA HF S100 to record up to 6 hours of crisp, high definition video to a removable SDHC card. You have extended available...

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