Canon FS31 Flash memory Camcorder w/16GB Flash Memory & 41x Advanced Zoom
by Canon
Our Price: $398.00
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Category: Digital Camera
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: CanonModel: FS31
Color: Black
Product features:
- Records up to 10 hours of video to a 16GB internal flash drive or directly to removable SD memory cards
- Ultra-Sleek, Compact and Lightweight Design (7.9 oz)
- Genuine Canon 41x Advanced Zoom
- Canon DIGIC DV II Image Processor
- Dynamic SuperRange OIS corrects a full range of motion
- Canon BP-808 Lithium Ion Battery for FS Camcorders (Retail Packaging)
- Canon DW-100 DVD Burner for Canon Hard Drive and Flash Memory Based Camcorders
- Canon 1272V095 NS-10 Neck Strap for All Camcorders
- Pinnacle Studio HD V14 [OLD VERSION]
- Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 [OLD VERSION]
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon FS31 Flash memory Camcorder w/16GB Flash Memory & 41x Advanced Zoom
Customer Review: horrible. tedious to use and makes a VERY loud camera noise
Summary: 1 Stars
Horrible. Just horrible. I am a linguist and bought this so that I could have an easy way of gathering discourse data (= video of people having conversations). I planned to record indoors in quiet and ideal sound recording situations. I wasn't looking for anything fantastic, but at 300 and some bucks, I expected decent audio. After all, my tiny little webcam and $150 digital camera record BEAUTIFUL audio, so I thought a nice digital camera could only be better. How wrong I was. Even if you record UTTER SILENCE, when you play it back, there is a a loud camera noise (hum/buzz/whatever). If you listen carefully while recording, you can hear it yourself, and it's REALLY loud in the recording. This is unacceptable at the $300 range.
Also, though it's my philosophy that camcorders shouldn't even have digital cameras (how cheesy!), if you're going to have one, make it decent please! I read somewhere that this one is 1MP. Seriously? Wow. And there are hardly any settings for the camera either, unlike the actual canon cameras, which are amazing.
Also unlike canon cameras, this does NOT have easy to use controls. I'm really used to using digital cameras and all kinds of camcorders, but this one is so annoying to figure out, and uncomfortable/awkward. Nothing is intuitive. I just wind up hitting back all the time, or switching modes, to get out of annoying parts.
I think most users will notice nothing wrong with this, because most people just point the camera at their kid playing soccer, and have no standards whatsoever for their digital devices. I massively lowered my standards (have given up on anything post-hi-8 in regard to making stop-motion films), but I at least thought I could get a camcorder that would decently record people sitting at a table talking. Canon FS31 fails miserably.
I'll be returning it ASAP, and unable to gather linguistic data that I needed to gather on a trip I'm about to go on. Thanks Canon!
Description of Canon FS31 Flash memory Camcorder w/16GB Flash Memory & 41x Advanced Zoom
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