Canon Canon ZR70MC MiniDV Camcorder

All the features of the ZR65MC, plus 22X Optical Zoom/440X Digital Zoom, Motion JPEG Movie, Super Night Mode, an Advanced Accessory Shoe for powering a microphone or video light and selectable Color Light-up Buttons. It also includes a Wide Angle Lens Attachment and an Extended Life Battery.

Shooting great video has never been easier thanks to Canon’s ZR70MC DV camcorder. Packed with features, this model provides stunning picture clarity and detail, a genuine Canon zoom lens and advanced performance that are the results of more than 68 years of designing and manufacturing cameras. Equipped with Canon’s renowned high-quality optics and an extended digital zoom range, you can be assured of shooting crisp, vibrant video and life-like digital photos. With the ZR70MC, you can attach the supplied WA-30.5 Wide Attachment (0.6x), giving you a wide perspective for indoor shots or panoramic views. Even when the light has faded, you can keep on shooting with the ZR70MC’s Super Night Mode. Print directly from your camcorder to select Canon Bubble Jet Printers using a single USB cable.

KEY FEATURES:

• Digital Video Format and IEEE 1394
  Canon's ZR70MC camcorder adheres to an international MiniDV standard. Using MiniDV cassettes, audio and video are recorded digitally. The MiniDV format delivers more than 500 lines of horizontal resolution. In terms of picture quality, this is about 25% better than the best analog formats. It features a DV terminal, also known as a FireWire terminal, which conforms to the IEEE 1394 standard. Using this terminal, you can transfer digital video and audio to and from a computer equipped with a DV terminal, another DV camcorder, or a DV VCR. The digital data transfer occurs without any degradation to the image or audio. This means you can edit movies on your computer and maintain the same high level of picture and audio quality when you transfer the edited movie back to DV tape using the DV terminal.
• Image Stabilizer
  Canon's image stabilization system corrects camera shake -- caused by an unsteady hand, for example. This image stabilization system makes for smoother and steadier video even with hand-held shots, at full telephoto, and with shots taken from a moving car.
• Canon Precision Optical Zoom Lens
  Canon is known world-wide for its lenses. The zoom technology found in the lens of a ZR70MC camcorder is the same as Canon uses in its broadcast TV lenses, found in the majority of broadcast cameras.
• 22x Optical Zoom
  The ZR70MC is fitted with an 22x optical zoom lens, a high performance lens from Canon. The 22x zoom range will more than take care of all your picture-taking needs, whether they are wide-angle shots of all the family at the reunion or close-up sports action at full telephoto. Add in the high-resolution capability of DV and you have high quality video at your fingertips.
• 440x Digital Zoom
  The ZR70MC's 440x digital zoom significantly expands the telephoto magnification of the subject, bringing it even closer than you might have thought possible.
• Shooting Modes
  The ZR70MC allows you to record both video and digital still images to tape. You can also save XGA High Resolution Photos and Motion JPEG movies to a MultiMediaCard or SD Memory Card.
• 680,000 Pixel CCD
  The ZR70MC features a high-performance 1/6" 680,000-pixel CCD to capture high quality video and digital photos. There is no need to carry both video and photo cameras with the ZR70MC.
• Advanced Dual Image Signal Processing
  Canon technology allows you to capture perfect video and the perfect photo. Since video and printed photos have different needs why should they processed the same? The ZR70MC uses two different processing techniques to maximize quality for a display on a TV or for printing.
• MultiMediaCard / SD Memory Card Slot
  For the storage of digital still images, you can use either MultiMediaCards or SD memory cards in the ZR70MC. An 8MB SD Memory Card comes with the camcorder, storing XGA (1024 X 768 pixels) or VGA (640 X 480) quality photos. These images can be transferred to your computer using the camcorder's USB interface or a card reader.
• Direct Print with Canon Bubble Jet Printers
  Print directly from your camcorder to select Canon Bubble Jet Printers. A single USB cable connects the printer to the camcorder and all printing options can be controlled from ZR70MC's LCD Screen. Options include: selecting the print quantity, cropping, and whether you would like bordered or borderless prints.
• Exif Print (2.2)
  The ZR70MC supports Exif Print (2.2), a worldwide standard that enhances communication between digital cameras and printers. At the time of shooting, vital camcorder settings and scene data are recorded with the image, resulting in realistic color reproduction. Poor lighting or mistakes can also be corrected, allowing photos to be even better than the originals.
• Colour Viewfinder and 2.5" LCD Screen
  The ZR70MC offers both a 0.33"color viewfinder and a 2.5-inch fold-out color LCD screen. For those who prefer the larger screen for composing their videos, the fold-out screen makes it easy. It twists and can be flipped so you can shoot your video from any angle without having to look in the viewfinder. The screen also is great for playback and review of your video immediately after you've captured a scene.
• Programmed Auto Exposure
  The ZR70MC offers the versatility to meet every exposure challenge, as well as ease of use when you're happy to let the camera make all the choices. Amazingly sophisticated circuitry delivers proper exposure automatically under almost any lighting condition. But you also can easily adjust the exposure in any one of several creative ways to meet your specific need. Selecting a different exposure mode lets you control how you want the video to look.
• Manual Controls
  For those who want total control of all aspects of the exposure system, the ZR70MC offers manual settings. You can select the shutter speed for full creative control.
• Manual Focus
  Manually focus the camcorder's lens by using a dial on the camera body.
• AE Shift
  For fine control over how dark or light you want a scene to look, use the Auto Exposure Shift setting to adjust the auto exposure level.
• Manual and Automatic Shutter Speeds
  There are 8 shutter speeds (from 1/60 sec. to 1/2000 sec.) available in all auto exposure modes. They may also be selected manually. Slow shutter speeds are available in Night and Low Light modes.
• Preset/Auto/Manual White Balance
  The ZR70MC is designed to determine white balance automatically. You also can use standard preset values for indoors (3200º K) and outdoors (5600º K) or you can manually set the white balance. Manually setting the white balance is useful when shooting subjects with one dominant color such as the sky, close-ups, rapidly changing lighting conditions, and places lit by certain types of fluorescent or mercury vapor lights.
• Digital Effects, Faders and Special Effects
  For that creative touch, a more appealing look, or greater imaging variety, you can switch on one of several digital effects: negative picture, art, black & white picture, sepia, mosaic.
• PCM Digital Stereo Sound
  The ZR70MC can record sound in two audio modes:
• 16-bit (48 kHz, 2 channels) for the highest sound quality, slightly better than CD quality, and equivalent to DAT tape;
• 12-bit (32 kHz, 2 from 4 channels) for recording on two channels (stereo 1), leaving two channels (stereo 2) open for post production audio recording (narration, music, etc.).
• IEEE 1394 Input and Output Terminal
  The ZR70MC is designed for the transfer of digital video and audio to and from either a PC or another IEEE 1394 terminal-equipped camcorder or professional DV VCR. The DV terminal allows high-quality transfer with virtually no deterioration in quality of images. You can edit and process images by connecting the camera to a PC with the IEEE 1394 terminal.
• Video and Audio Inputs and Outputs
  In addition to providing digital video input and output, the ZR70MC features two types of analog audio and video inputs and outputs: Composite and S-video.
• USB Connection
  The ZR70MC has a USB connection, for high speed transferring of digital photos and videos stored on memory card to a computer.
• My Camera Function
  The My Camera function is designed to let you customize a number of features on your Canon camcorder to make it distinctively your own. The features are the start-up image and sound, shutter sound, start/stop sound, and the self-timer sound. The changes are made through an easy-to-use menu sequence. Sounds are selected from those provided by Canon. The start-up image can be the one supplied with the camera or you can create one by using a still image you have captured on the camcorder's memory card or one you have downloaded. Should you decide to change any of these features later on, it's as easy as going back to the menu to alter them.