Canon HV20 amazon.com User Reviews

This camera is the best consumer level camera with almost all the features needed for creativity. Don't buy this if you want simple family home videos. You can buy a $500 camera for that. If you want to edit your projects, use this camera to create good v...

HDV, mic in, head phone jack, zebra stripes, top load tape, battery life, Av, Tv, 24p, accessory shoe, many WB options, mic levels, manual focus, HDMI, and more

no fully manual option, too many buttons to press to turn off stabilization when camera is on tripod, silver (looks like consumer camera), AC adapter wire appears very thin (may break someday), built in mic faces up......but nothing really major to compla...

canon HD camcorder isn't read by windows movie maker or Mac

The Canon HV20 high definition camcorder is compatible with Windows Vista, is lightweight and takes great-looking video at its default settings. I used it recently on a round-the-world trip in very hot (113F) conditions and both US/European voltages and i...

Like most palm-sized cameras, it is light-weight and, thankfully, assisted with a super-range optical image stabiliser (OIS). The "super range" bit means it also compensates for the small tremors caused by breathing and swaying hands. I look for the "Cer...

My main gripe is the absence of a FireWire cable and a Mini SD card. For some reason (possibly the firewall, but I didn’t see a message to that effect), the computer wouldn’t see the camera because the only Mini SD card I happened to have was from a p