Digital Video - August 2008 - (Page 19) quality of the image as viewed by the consumer. We will discuss resolution vs. sharpness in the Primer section shortly. Chromatic (CA) aberration was 1.15 pixel. This is about twice the CA we measured in the Canon HV20. The Chroma DuMonde color test chart looked slightly too blue. On the grayscale chart, the HG10’s recorded image looked just a bit too warm (red) to my eye. Noise reaches a maximum of about 0.5%, in the blue channel. This is actually somewhat better than the HV20, which had noise up in the 0.9% level. The stepchart shows that the gray levels follow the standard closely. At the white end, the stepped black line is below the dotted line. This means the camera reduces the level here, keeping the whites from being blown out, and it is a common technique with digital cameras. Results using the ColorChecker SG chart indicate that color reproduction is slightly undersaturated. This is shown by the fact that the standard swatch, shown in the top left corner of each colored square, is somewhat darker than the reproduction of that swatch color from the camera, shown in the bottom right corner of each square. This color accuracy is not as good as that of the HV20. THE SPECS CANON HG10 Design: 1920x1080i, CMOS Recording Format: AVCHD onto 40GB Hard Drive Lens: 10x Optical Zoom; f/1.8-3, 6.1mm-61mm LCD: 2.7" External; 0.27" Internal Optical Lens Shift Image Stabilization Outputs: HDMI 24p Mode Maximum Recording Time: 5 hours 30 minutes at 15 Mbps (Highest Speed) Dimensions: 3" x 3.2" x 5.1" Weight: 2 lbs MSRP: $999 RESULTS The Canon HG10 is easy to use and has the advantage of hard-disk storage, which makes files simple to review incamera. These files will take some getting used to in terms of dealing with them during the download process to your PC because there are several files for each video. The noise issue has improved a bit over the HV20, but the resolution is not as good. In any case, the picture is still very high quality. DV John E. Johnson, Jr. is the editor-inchief of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, found at www.homethe aterhifi.com. TEST CHARTS See these charts and more in the extended version of this story. Visit DV online. www.dv.com dv august 2008 19 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com http://www.hometheaterhifi.com http://www.dv.com http://www.dv.com
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