Canon has produced a new product that is the top of the line in video recording and picture taking. The canon gl2 minidv digital camcorder is a movie lovers dream. This product not only takes great pictures and video but it is of such high quality that its features are used by professionals. With great features at an affordable price the canon gl2 minidv digital camcorder provides you with professional features that produce perfect photos and videos every time you use it.

The canon gl2 minidv digital camcorder contains a charge-coupled device system known as a CCD. The CCD takes colors that pass through the lens and reproduces the color in outstanding detail and brightness giving you the best image possible. This camera also has fluorite installed in its lens. The flourite element creates sharper details and a cleaerer image. It also increases the quality of resolution an brightness to produce the perfect photo or video. The canon gl2 minidv digital camcorder also contains larger pixels than other camcorders. Therefore this camera produces greater detail and allows you to shoot in dark places and still produce a bright scene. The 100x digital zoom lens allows you to capture images that are farther away. You don’t lose anything by zooming in, the images appear just as clear as they would if the video was being shot from 2 feet away.

The audio quality on the canon gl2 minidv digital camcorder is simply amazing. The microphone that is installed on the product produces very realistic stereo sound. You can also adjust the audio preferences to your liking such as if you want to record two channels on one track or if you want to separate them. Another great feature is the optical image stabilizer. This feature eliminates the problem of camera shake. Therefore you don’t have to worry about accidently moving the camera while shooting. The canon gl2 minidv digital camera will detect camera shake and automatically correct it so you always take the perfect photo and videos with no blur.

You can also plug the canon gl2 minidv digital camera into your computer with a USB cable. You can display your favorite photos and videos on your computer and ultimately print photos. This product also has three different shooting modes; digital photo mode, normal movie mode, and cinema-like frame movie mode.

The canon gl2 minidv digital camcorder is a great value as you get professional video features at an affordable price. You can read reviews on this product and buy it on learning-about.com/canondigitalcameras

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Canon Xl2 digital camcorder and a chance meeting as I was on a lunch break.

Did you know that you can get fed & paid to learn about video production? Picture this:

You’re down the street at the local shops when you hear a lot of screaming from up a side street.

“What the heck was that?” you think to yourself and make your way around the corner to see what all the commotion is about.

To your surprise, you see twenty or thirty people screaming and carrying on as they chase a New York City taxi-cab, only to have it stop after twenty yards and back-up, ready to do it all over again.

You hesitate for a moment and contemplate if it would be better to turn around and walk in the other direction.

It’s then you notice the traffic control personnel, the lights, cameras and huge number of support people. You have stumbled across a location shoot for a television commercial.

“Ahaaa”, you say to yourself “perfect opportunity to learn about ‘the business’”.

So you hang around and study the camera angles, positioning of the lights and how it is all controlled by the director. The placement of screens and reflectors, the use of microphones and the roles of the support crew.

It’s when you speak to the ‘extras’ (the rowdy ‘mob’) that you discover they are being paid $20 an hour and the whole event is fully catered!

Now if you want to learn more about the business of film and video production with the added bonus of being paid to do so, sign up as an extra and learn from the inside. If you are unsure where to start, just type ‘movie extra’ in a search engine like google.

Now this is a true story and as my luck would have it, was taking place right outside my office window for most of the day (the screaming and yelling did get a bit tedious after a while).

It was good to speak to the cast extra’s, but this was a better opportunity to talk to the technical crew on aspects of filming and production. Just had to pick the right moment.

And that I did and picked up some good info to boot!

The production house was not a large firm so they had developed systems and procedures to control costs while providing quality outputs. One of these was using a Canon Xl2 digital camcorder as the secondary camera.

The size and weight of the Canon Xl2 compared to the betacam unit allowed it to be placed in unusual locations quickly and easily (thus saving time, which equals money) and the image quality showed no discernible difference (you would need to view on a new digital system to notice a difference and even then you’d have to be looking closely.

I even managed to get a word in with the main production cameraman so I could ‘pick his brain’ on the Canon xl2 digital camcorder. He loved the unit but did say he found it’s performance questionable when filming vertical stripes and off green colourings (the types of situations you might find in filming catwalk models). Other than that he said the xl2 was a great asset for a pro or semi-pro operator.

So if you’d like a whole lot of fun while getting paid, sign up as a movie/production extra. And if you want a great camcorder and have the experience to use it get yourself a Canon xl2 digital camcorder.

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