The stylish Canon FV50 is a compact, lightweight camcorder well suited for family use. Featuring a powerful 22x optical-zoom lens, the unit enables high-quality image capture of distant subjects, ideal for recording events such as school-entrance and graduation ceremonies. The model’s ergonomic body offers reduced proportions to increase handheld comfort and make long shooting sessions stress-free. Also, a fully automatic shooting mode and the grouping of the most frequently used control buttons on the side of the unit make operation a snap even for first-time users.

Incorporating a high-definition 1/6″ 680,000-pixel interlaced CCD, the FV50 enables users to capture high-quality video, as well as still images, at up to XGA (1,024 x 768 pixels) resolution. Further enhancing imaging performance is Canon’s proprietary DIGIC DV image processor. DIGIC DV automatically assumes that tape-recorded images will be displayed on TV monitors and card-recorded images printed out or viewed on a PC and, processing stills and video separately, optimizes color processing to ensure vivid, high-quality color performance to suit the viewing environment.

The Canon FV50 also ships with the Wide Conversion Attachment WA-30.5, which attaches to the front of the lens for an even wider angle (0.6x) of coverage, extending the field of view for use in more confined indoors spaces. Further catering to the varied needs of family users, the camcorder offers low-light shooting options, including Super Night Mode and Night+ Mode, to enhance image sensitivity and capture capability. Automatically sensing insufficient ambient light, Super Night Mode emits a bright LED light as supplemental illumination to enable color video recording in virtual darkness. Night+ Mode places control with users, allowing them to activate the LED light when and for as long as they choose.

The FV50’s high-performance lens incorporates a double-sided aspherical lens element that effectively corrects for a variety of lens aberrations to deliver sharp imaging performance despite the high zoom ratio, while also enabling a compact lens-unit design. The camcorder also features an Image Stabilizer that cancels out the effects of camera shake to ensure smooth and steady video images, even when shooting in the telephoto range. Canon’s FV50 digital video camcorder is compatible with the.