Canon ZR10 Digital Camcorder

And because it's digital, you can email movies, or put them on the Internet - no sweat! Canon's ZR10 is light enough, easy enough, and powerful enough to turn you into digital moviemaker, so you can make your family and friends into stars. Basically point-and-shoot, the ZR10 takes care of the details, but gives you control when you want it, to add effects to your movies for that extra cinematic touch. Once your kids teach you how it works, you'll find that the ZR10 makes video simpler that it has ever been before. And because it's digital, the ZR10 makes movies super-easy to put on the Internet.After all, once you get your ZR10, you'll be making web movies all the time. Its 10x Optical Zoom Lens can reveal detail on distant, faint objects, while the 200x Digital Zoom Lens makes those objects appear like they're sitting right in front of you. You don't have to be a webmaster to learn how. The ZR10's 2.5" Viewscreen moves in any direction, so you cannot only stand wherever you want, you can put the camera wherever you want. The ZR10 brings digital filmmaking within reach of your whole family.

A number of different programmed auto-exposure modes (including sand and snow, sports, portrait, and low light) automatically adjust settings to take the worry out of shooting in challenging conditions.

Besides the different programmed auto-exposure modes, the ZR10 also offers three different shooting modes. The ZR10 has been designed for point-and-shoot simplicity, making it easy for even beginners to shoot great videos. The Canon ZR10 excels at providing quality digital video footage in a small form factor. There's a lot of flexibility here: you can switch between movie and digital photo modes and create a unique collage of stills and video. This means you can use the footage as a series of independent photographs.

As a DV camcorder, the ZR10 has an IEEE 1394 port for digital editing, or for transferring footage between IEEE 1394-compliant devices, such as computers or other DV camcorders. The 10x optical zoom Canon lens gets you right in the action, while image stabilization helps prevent unwanted shakes and jitters from creeping into your important footage. Analog inputs allow you to transfer old footage to DV for archiving. You'll probably leave the camera set to normal movie mode a majority of the time. Digital photo mode lets you use the ZR10 as a digital camera, recording a still image for six seconds on the miniDV tape, and allowing audio commentary. Digital effects include art, black and white, mosaic, and sepia; built-in faders help ease scene transitions. The ZR10 also features S-Video input and output. Finally, the digital motor drive mode uses the progressive-scan CCD to capture a full noninterlaced 30 frames per second.