{"id":1677,"date":"2010-09-03T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2010-09-03T06:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T10:23:31","slug":"canon-announces-new-compact-proprosumer-xf-video-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/canon-announces-new-compact-proprosumer-xf-video-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon Announces New Compact Pro\/Prosumer XF Video Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_canonxf_big.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1680\" title=\"blog_canonxf_big\" src=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_canonxf_big.png\" alt=\"blog_canonxf_big\" width=\"450\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_canonxf_big.png 450w, https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_canonxf_big-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week Canon announced two new cameras to be added to their lineup; the <strong>XF100<\/strong> and <strong>XF105<\/strong>. \u00a0Both are compact cameras that record to memory cards, but carry the features only found in prosumer and professional cameras. \u00a0Or to put it another way, these cameras are for people who earn their living from video&#8230;people who need extreme quality, high portability and efficient workflows.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras record using the Canon XF codec, an MPEG-2 format Canon released earlier this year that offers outstanding quality, while still playing nice with video editing software. \u00a0By way of comparison, the popular AVCHD format records video at 24mbps and causes fits with video editing software&#8230;while the Canon XF format records at 50mbps (twice the quality of AVCHD) and reportedly doesn&#8217;t cause such fits.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, no estimated prices or arrival dates were announced though. \u00a0To get a blow-blow on every last technical spec of the XF100 or X105, visit Canon&#8217;s site by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.canon.com\/cusa\/professional\/products\/camcorders\/hd_video_cameras\/xf100\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.canon.com\/cusa\/professional\/products\/camcorders\/hd_video_cameras\/xf105\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Canon announced two new cameras to be added to their lineup; the XF100 and XF105. \u00a0Both are compact cameras that record to memory cards, but carry the features only found in prosumer and professional cameras. \u00a0Or to put it another way, these cameras are for people who earn their living from video&#8230;people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[665,666],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}