- Outline
- Specifications
| Marketed | July 2004 |
The IXY DV M3 is an ultra-compact upright digital video camcorder equipped with a 2.2-megapixel CCD image sensor. Replacing the stylishly designed IXY DV M2 released in September 2003, the new model offers further refinements to realize enhanced performance, style and compactness.
Featuring a sleek vertical design finished in sparkling silver, the IXY DV M3 offers users consummate style as well as exceptional performance. The model’s good looks are matched with a highly functional new layout, which positions control buttons and switches to give users full control of the main functions with just one hand. The Camcorder’s soft-touch handgrip also makes holding a pleasure, even for long shooting sessions.
Canon’s new camcorder incorporates an ultra-compact 10x optical zoom lens, offering a high resolving power that maximizes the performance potential of the 2.2-megapixel CCD while also contributing to the model’s diminutive body, which is 10mm shorter in the vertical dimension than the previous model. Further boosting shooting performance is a new mini video light which, offering four times the brightness of the previous model, enables a shooting range of up to 1.5 meters in darkness; and a Ring Light Adapter, which eliminates shadows when shooting in the macro range from three to 30cm from the subject.
Enhancing connectivity, the new model offers a USB2.0 Hi-Speed interface, which enables video and still photos to be downloaded to a PC quickly and easily.
| Television system | EIA standard (525 lines, 60 fields) NTSC color signal |
| Video recording system | 2 rotary heads, helical scanning DV system (consumer digital VCR SD system), digital component recording |
| Audio recording system | PCM digital sound: 16-bit (48 kHz/2 ch.) 12-bit (32 kHz/4 ch.) |
| Image sensor | 1/3.4″ CCD, approx. 2,200,000 pixels Effective pixels: tape approx. 1,230,000 pixels, card approx. 2,000,000 pixels |
| Tape format | Videocassettes bearing the MiniDV mark |
| Tape speed | SP: 18.81 mm/sec.(3/4 ips) LP: 12.56 mm/sec.(1/2 ips) |
| Maximum recording time (with an 80-min. cassette) | SP: 80 min. LP: 120 min. |
| Fast forward/rewind time | 2 min. 20 sec. (with a 60-min. cassette) |
| Lens | f=4.7-47 mm, f/1.8-2.4, 10x power zoom |
| Focusing system | TTL autofocus, manual focusing possible |
| Minimum focusing distance | 1 m (3.3 ft); 1 cm (0.39 in.) on maximum wide angle |
| Frame Rate | 1/2,000 sec. (1/250 sec. when using a memory card) |
| Minimum illumination | 1.1 lx using the Night mode during tape recording |
| Recommended illumination | More than 100 lx |
| Filter diameter | 30.5 mm |
| Viewfinder | 0.33″ color LCD (approx. 113,000 pixels) |
| LCD screen: | 2.5″ (Optura 500: approx.211,000 pixels /Optura 400: approx.123,000 pixels) |
| Microphone | Stereo electret condenser microphone |
| DV terminal | Special 4-pin connector (based on IEEE 1394) |
| Video terminal | 1 Vp-p/75 ohms unbalanced |
| S-video terminal | 1 Vp-p (Y signal), 0.286 Vp-p (C signal) |
| Audio terminal | Input level: -10 dBV/40 kohms or more Output level: -10 dBV (47 kohm load)/3 kohms or less |
| Operating temperature range | 32 – 104° F (0 – 40° C) |
| Power supply (rated) | 7.4 V (battery pack), 8.4 V (DC IN) |
| Power consumption | Approx. 3.3 W (using viewfinder), 4.1 W (using LCD screen) * While recording AF="ON" |
| Dimensions | 53 x 107 x 101 mm (2.1 x 4.2 x 4.0 in.) |
| Weight(not including lens and battery pack) | Camcorder Body only: approx. 470g (1.0 lb.) Total equipment weight: approx. 530g (1.2 lb.) |