Comments on: New Canon Vixia G10 Has No More Pixels Than Absolutely Necessary

By: JD

JD — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:55:07 +0000

I’m impressed, more education needs to be done to tell consumers that one number doesn’t describe the quality of the whole unit. It’s not that hard to do a little research, some sites compare the new model against the closest five competitors in terms of picture quality.

By: devin

devin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:56:48 +0000

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/21/a-quick-psa-on-dots-versus-pixels-in-lcds/

for u

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:28:05 +0000

Man, who proof-reads this stuff?

640×480 = 922,000? Did someone skip the 5th grade?

1280×720 = 922,000!

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:13:26 +0000

thanks for pointing that out, i haven’t had time to do any sensor size checks. didn’t know about that mode, but the gh2 and its relatives are certainly excellent cameras. I’d like to see side by side compares though.

By: petr marek

petr marek — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:33:52 +0000

Dear Canon, Panasonic GH2 has a “crop TELE mode” with native resolution 1920×1080, which uses middle area of the 4/3 sensor with native 60p fps, which is still bigger (equivalent between 1/2 to 2/3-inch sensor) with bigger photodiodes than your 1/3 sensor. Than it´s also a fantastic camera with millions of other features, it´s already on the market and it costs half the price of your eunuch camcorder. Good luck!

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:59:44 +0000

Ahhh, I was unfamiliar with this method of imaging measurement.

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:09:01 +0000

Currently have a GL2..does the HF G10 have an external mic jack?

By: vasra

vasra — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:34:33 +0000

Native sensor resolution is often different from..

CODEC-resolution which is different from…

Lens optical resolving resolution which is different from

Actual full system resolving resolution (tv-lines)

The best so called consumer “HD 1080P” vid cams currently resolve around 700 vertical lines in vertical direction.

The new Canon at least does FULL 720P resolving as it goes to 800 (although this needs to be confirmed by testing).

By: Ryan Alyea

Ryan Alyea — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:20:19 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_lines

Basically, that means that in the final output image lens/sensor can make out 450 horizontal white lines and 450 horizontal black lines (interlaced) and still have them visually distinct. It is not a measure number of pixels, but rather image quality.

That doesn’t mean that the resolution is halved, the world obviously not a bunch of black/white striped lines, that is just a test of the absolute worst case scenario for a camera.