- Outline
- Specifications
| Marketed | February 2003 |
The Canon FV40, a compact, lightweight camcorder, features a high-definition 1/6″ 680,000-pixel interlaced CCD, enabling users to capture high-quality video, as well as still images at up to XGA (1,024 x 768 pixels) resolution in normal, fine and superfine compression modes. The inclusion of Canon’s proprietary MACS (Multi Architecture Camera System) camera-signal-processing LSI (large-scale integrated circuit) further contributes to outstanding movie and still images. In addition to stills, the FV40 camcorder enables the card-based recording of video in the Motion-JPEG format, making it possible for users to download their video clips to a PC via the USB port (connection cable supplied) and distribute them easily as e-mail attachments.
The FV40 also supports Camera Direct printing of still shots captured on memory cards. Requiring only a single proprietary cable connection between the camcorder and Canon Ink Jet Printers, Camera Direct eliminates the need for a PC in the print process by enabling users to control print settings directly from the camcorder’s LCD screen.
Further enhancing functionality, the FV40 features Super Night Mode, which emits a bright LED light as supplemental illumination to enable color video recording in virtual darkness.
| Power supply (rated): | 7.4 V DC (Battery) 9.5 V DC (DC IN) |
| Power consumption: | 2.9 W (using viewfinder), 3.8 W (using LCD screen) |
| Television system: | EIA standard (525 lines, 60 fields) NTSC color signal |
| Video recording system: | 2 rotary heads, helical scanning system 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: | 1/6″ CCD (charge coupled device) approx. 680,000 pixels (approx. 340,000 effective pixels-tape) (approx. 447,000 effective pixels-card) |
| Tape format: | Videocassettes bearing the MiniDV mark |
| Tape speed: | SP: 3/4 ips (18.81 mm/sec.) LP: 1/2 ips (12.56 mm/sec.) |
| 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/1.6 – 3.6, 22x power zoom, 2.8 – 61.6 mm |
| Focusing system: | TTL autofocus, manual focusing possible |
| Minimum focusing distance: | 1 m (3 ft. 3 3/8 in.) 1 cm (3/8 in.) on maximum wide angle |
| Maximum shutter speed: | 1/2,000 sec. (1/250 when using memory card) |
| Minimum illumination: | 1.6 lx using the Night program 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″ measured diagonally (approx. 112,000 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 kohm, unbalanced Output level: -10 dBV, less than 3 kohms, unbalanced |
| Operating temperature range: | 32 – 104° F (0 – 40° C) |
| Dimensions: | 103 x 58 x 147 mm (4.1 x 2.3 x 5.8 in.) |
| Weight: | 525 g (1.2 lbs.) |