Can I Bring Dreams to Life with Quality & Versatility?

Can I bring dreams to life with quality & versatility?

They've been dreaming about the wedding day for months. Positioning the green CCD out of line PROFESSIONAL FLUORITE LENS (pixel shift) sharpens image reproduction Canon has always led the way in optical Every detail has been planned. It goes perfectly. Bride and even if your subject moves. A new Super development. The first to equip a cam- Pixel Shift (horizontal + vertical) achieves corder with a fluorite lens – a lens that groom look radiant and the guests enjoy themselves. wider dynamic range for movies, reducing provides the quality of 35mm and vertical smear and gives 1.7 mega-pixel broadcast TV. The XM2 has a Professional You can bring back those special moments in a top-quality high resolution photos. L-Series fluorite lens. Combined with 20x optical zoom and 100x digital zoom, video recording. plus an optical image stabiliser, you can be sure of superior images.

SUPERB QUALITY INSPIRATIONAL VERSATILITY The Canon XM2 Digital Camcorder No two video shoots are alike. What's combines the best of all worlds. Its happening, where it's happening, move- advanced technology delivers unri- ment, colour – it all demands a certain valled image quality in its class, while it amount of fine-tuning to capture the is still easy to operate. That makes it an special moments you want. The XM2 ideal choice for both serious camcorder features adjustments and enhancements enthusiasts, professional video- for sound and picture for your personal graphers and filmmakers. Whether creativity. Plus a LCD screen for easy you're regularly providing broadcast viewing. or web content, making educational videos or recording an event like a NEW GENERATION 3CCD wedding, the XM2's high performance The Canon 3CCD system separates light will make your work more enjoyable entering the camcorder into red, blue and the result more satisfying. and green, making colour reproduction cleaner and sharper. The new high- sensitivity 3CCD with 470,000 pixels provides 540 lines horizontal resolution.

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3CCD unit Fluorite lens Guarantees For sharp images YOU CAN outstanding detail and perfect colour and high performance. reproduction. WITH THE XM2 OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZER We know how difficult it can be to keep a camera still. So the XM2 is fitted with an Optical Image Stabiliser (rather than Electronic Stabilisation which can reduce image quality). Its vari-angle prism reacts Fluorite lens Red Red Glass lens Blue Blue

QUALITY YOU CAN SEE Optional MA-300 adapter with 2-channel TRUE-TO-LIFE COLOUR camcorder. But the downside of a normal XLR terminals. Fluorite is a synthetic crystalline sub- zoom lens can be colour aberrations. stance with the ability to collect light at The fluorite technology used in the XM2 a single point. It bypasses the limitations L-Series lens eliminates almost all colour posed by normal glass. The resulting deviation. This and the new 3CCD system image is extremely sharp. give viewers the pleasure of colours that A zoom lens is an essential feature on a are much truer to life. to a sensor and bends the light rays, so voice and windscreen). For high-quality the image reaching the CCDs remains PCM digital sound recording, an MA-300 steady. microphone adapter is available.

SOUNDS GOOD AUDIO LEVEL CONTROL Some camcorder recordings have great Another sound-improving feature on the pictures but the sound lets them down. XM2 is the 2-channel manual audio level For a fuller, richer, stereo sound, the control. A special dial allows you to set XM2 has a 'direction accurate' micro- the L/R level to exactly the balance you phone. This contains two pairs of pick-up want for 2 channels. An easy-to-find elements, each for left and right, giving audio level meter on the camcorder body, accurate stereo ambience and less on the LCD and EVF screen shows the left mechanical background noise. Also, you and right 24 segment peaks. can change the microphone frequency characteristics to match the recording QUALITY condition (normal, YOU CAN HEAR Canon Digital Camcorder XM2 Specifications

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SHOOTING FUNCTIONS IMAGE QUALITY ADJUSTMENT MONITOR LCD MOTION VIDEO Mini DV tape COLOR GAIN ADJUSTMENT Yes (Custom preset) SIZE 2.5-inch STILL IMAGE Mini DV tape (Photo), memory card HUE ADJUSTMENT Yes (Custom preset) PIXELS 200,000 (Progressive Photo) SHARPNESS ADJUSTMENT Yes (Custom preset) BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT Yes SETUP ADJUSTMENT Yes (Custom preset) MOVABLE Yes IMAGE SENSING DEVICE IMAGE SIZE 1/4 inch 3CCD WHITE BALANCE EVF TOTAL NUMBER OF PIXELS AUTO Yes SIZE 0.44-inch (TFT color) (PER CCD) Total pixels: 470,000 SET Yes (1) PIXELS 180,000 Digital Camcorder Effective pixels: 440,000 PRESET Outdoor, indoor BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT Yes (Menu adjustment) SYSTEM 3-plate Pixel shift (horizontal, SYSTEMS TTL, 80 segments MOVABLE Downward 68° up to horizontal vertical) FILTER RGB independent primary color filter FOCUS (dichroic prism) MODE AF/MF MANUAL FOCUS Focus ring operation VCR LENS OPTICAL ZOOM 20x (12 elements in 10 groups 16:9 SEARCH MAGNIFICATION with one fluorite lens and RECORDING SYSTEM Vertical stretching PHOTO SEARCH Yes two aspheric lenses) AREA MARKER DISPLAY Area marker displayed for 16:9 DATE SEARCH Yes DIGITAL ZOOM MAGNIFICATION 40x, 100x (Card mode: None) in EVF 4:3 screen INDEX SEARCH Yes FOCAL LENGTH (OPTICAL ZOOM) 4.2-84 mm Can I bring dreams to life (35 MM EQUIVALENT) 39.5-790 mm SHOOTING EFFECTS DATA CODE DISPLAY Time and date display, F-NUMBER With tape: F1.6-2.8 DIGITAL EFFECTS Black and White, Sepia, Art, Strobe, camera information With memory card: F2.0-2.8 Mirror, Mosaic, Tracer (tape) AUDIO DUBBING Yes with quality & versatility? APERTURE LEAVES Iris diaphragm (5 leaves) ND FILTER DIGITAL FADE Black auto fade, wipe, overlap (tape) AV INSERT Yes Yes (Transmittance: Approx. ZERO SET MEMORY Yes 10% with 3 aperture) ZEBRA PATTERN Variable level: 80% 85% 90% ZOOM SPEED: HandleZoom: 3-level adjustable 95% 100% (H/M/L) Grip zoom: Variable H/M/L MOTION VIDEO SHOOTING System FILTER DIAMETER 58mm P0.75 TAPE Normal/Frame (simulated frame process using pixel shift) INTERFACE (TERMINAL) MINIMUM ILLUMINATION 0,37 Lux (Slow shutter 1/6 second) CLEAR SCAN Tv mode, Manual mode: 50.3-200 Hz MICROPHONE INPUT Yes IMAGE STABILIZATION Optical system (double-driving VAP) HEADPHONE OUTPUT Yes STILL IMAGE SHOOTING DV TERMINAL Yes (In/Out) DIMENSIONS (WXHXD) 118x136x306mm MODE: TAPE Normal (field image) S TERMINAL Yes (In/Out) WEIGHT 1120g MODE: CARD Progressive (iris shutter) AV TERMINAL ∅3.5 mm (In/Out) SINGLE PICTURES: TAPE 6.5 seconds EDITING TERMINALS LANC terminal PHOTO BUTTONS: FORM Dedicated still image button USB PORT mini-B/ Complies with mass storage (tape, card) class 1.0 PHOTO BUTTONS: PRESSED HALFWAY DOWN Yes (only during recording standby) MEMORY CARD Shooting functions STILL IMAGE CONFIRM Yes (Card only) CARD SD memory card and FLASH COMPATIBILITY Yes 220EX, 420EX, 550EX MultiMedia card PROGRAM AE Easy Recording, Auto mode, Spotlight RECORDED VIDEO Frame image STILL IMAGE RECORDING: mode, Surf & Snow mode, Tv mode, Av (video output is field image) IMAGE SIZE & QUALITY 1488 x 1128 pixels; mode, Manual mode FRAME PROCESSING Simulated frame (horizontal Fine 860 KB, Standard 580 KB and vertical pixel shift) 640 x 480 pixels; PHOTOMETRY Fine 125 KB, Standard 65 KB PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM Center-bottom-weighted WIDE SHOOTING CARD REVIEW Yes (Record review button EVALUATIVE PHOTOMETRY 80 segments (VERTICAL EXTENSION) operation) TAPE Yes STILL IMAGE PLAYBACK: EXPOSURE ADJUSTMENT SLIDESHOW Yes AE LOCK Yes INTERVAL TIMER Yes, (Interval time: 4 modes, CARD JUMP Yes EXPOSURE CORRECTION Yes (after AE lock) Recording time: 4 modes) TITLE IMAGE: AE SHIFT Yes (±2 levels) SELF-TIMER 10 sec./Remote controller: 2 sec. CREATION Camera shooting GAIN SETTING Yes (During manual mode) REC SEARCH Yes TITLE SIZE 640 x 480 pixels REC REVIEW Yes TITLE MIX Yes (Color selection (full color, SHUTTER SPEED STANDBY SWITCH Yes +8 color), mixed level variation) HIGH-SPEED SHUTTER: TAPE 9 levels (1/50, 1/120, 1/250, POWER SAVE (AFTER FIVE 1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000, MINUTES IN RECORDING COLOR BAR Yes, EBU color bar 1/4000, 1/8000, 1/16000) PAUSE) Power shutoff/VCR (drum) stop ANALOGUE-DIGITAL During manual mode: 27 steps DISPLAYED TEXT RECORDING Yes CONVERTER Yes HIGH-SPEED SHUTTER: CARD Tv mode: 1/50 to 1/500 WORLD CLOCK Yes Manual mode: 1/50 to 1/700 SPEAKER Yes SLOW SHUTTER 3 levels (1/25, 1/12, 1/6) CONFIRMATION BEEP Yes TALLY LIGHT Yes APERTURE VALUE F1.6, F2, F2.4, F2.8, F3.4, F4, F4.8, REMOTE CONTROL CODE 1, 2, off F5.6, F6.7, F8, CLOSE Audio ACCESSORY SHOE Yes (compatible with Manual mode: 19 steps (Step 13 level advanced shoe and EX flashes) is telephoto end) AUDIO 16-bit 2-channel (48 kHz) Card mode: F1.6, F2, F2.4, F2.8, F3.4, 12-bit 4-channel (32 kHz) RECORDING MODES F4, F4.8, F5.6, F6.7, F8, CLOSE Manual WIND SCREEN Yes (Microphone F characteristics: LP Yes mode: 17 steps Normal/ Voice/ Wind Screen) (Step 13 level is telephoto end) RECORDING LEVEL CUSTOM KEYS Yes (1 key) ADJUSTMENT Yes: Auto, manual (L/R controls DV CONTROL Yes (Allowed only during with level adjustment dials) Camera mode) LEVEL METER Yes: EVF, inside LCD monitor, BACKUP POWER Lithium button battery (CR2025) LCD information display BATTERY PACK POWER 900 series rechargeable lithium ion battery

Multi Media

7 hour recording with optional BP-945 battery

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3 The XM2 can control HDD equipment with IEEE 1394 inter- 4 face and AV/C proto- col for simultaneous recording. 5 1 DRAMATIC CLOSE-UPS DM-XM2 Body - Large Eye Cup - WL-D77 A Wireless Controller - 2 STV-250N Stereo Video Cable - S-150 S-VIDEO Cable - IFC-300PCU 6 She's way off in the distance, but you've Interface Cable - SS-650 Shoulder Strap - CA-920 Compact Power GETTING IT JUST RIGHT • Colour Phase, to adjust between spotted her. The XM2 20x optical zoom A single cable con- Adapter - AC Cable - DC-920 DC Coupler - BP-915 Battery Pack - nection to transfer SDC-8M SD Memory Card - PC-A10 Scart Adapter - Although the XM2 is fully automatic, you red and green, and Colour Gain, lens can bring her right up close. images between the Digital Video Solution Disk Ver.3.0 camcorder, PC and 1. Audio REC level switch (auto or manual) can also take complete control and do it to choose depth of colour or 20x optical zoom is the 35mm focal printer. 2. Program selector 3. Audio rec. left level dial your own way. The camcorder has many shoot in black and white. length equivalent of 39.5mm to 790mm. 4. Audio rec. right level dial of the manual adjustments you will find • Camera Sharpness, to soften The XM2's maximum digital zoom is 5. MENU button OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES 6. SELECT dial on professional models. Some examples: the subject and clarify the 100x. Magnification that can make all the detail. difference. The SD Memory Card can capture high • Zebra Pattern, to indicate quality digital still images as JPEG files overexposure in a portion of to transfer into the picture a PC for advanced editing. Also an easy Battery Pack System Case • Interval Timer, to record at way to add a title to BP-915, 930, 945 HC-4100 your recording with selected times for filming natu- the Title Mix. 7 ral phenomena like sunsets. 9 If you need to record a CRT monitor, the Clear Scan feature Video Light Speedlite allows you to do so without VL-10Li, VL-3 220, 420, 550 EX 8 rolling black bars. But your 10 favourite button will probably be the Custom Key. Assign functions 7. Focus A/M button you use frequently to this key, and you 8. Digital effects bars ON/OFF button 9. ND filter ON/OFF button can customise your camcorder to your MiniDV Head Cleaning Cassette Mini Digital Video Cassette 10. Digital effects/bars select button shooting preferences. DVM-CL 60 and 80 minutes

MAKING LIFE EASIER The more features a camcorder has, the better it is. The XM2 has a whole range: time and data codes, shutter speed, Dual battery charger/holder Wide Converter power save, index recording ... too many CH-910 WD-58 to list here.

DIFFERENT SHOOTING MODES The XM2 has 3 modes to suit your record- 11 ing needs. Car Battery Adapter Microphone Adapter CB-920 MA-300 • Normal Movie Mode for video playback on TV or a video editing computer. 12 13 14 • Digital Photo Mode for high resolution YOU CAN SCREEN still images. THE RESULT 11. White balance select button • Frame Movie Mode for perfect quality 12. White balance set button Zoom Remote Directional 13. Custom key button prints and video for websites. ZR-1000 Stereo Microphone 14. Custom preset DM-50