- Outline
- Specifications
| Marketed | March 2005 |
The Canon FV M30 “Photo DV” camcorder, which replaces the popular FV M20 launched in June 2004, features a newly developed 14x optical zoom lens incorporating optical image stabilization for blur-free images throughout the zoom range, even when filming by hand. The model also offers a variety of advanced features to enable the capture of high-quality video and still images, including a 2.2-megapixel CCD, an RGB primary color filter, and Canon’s proprietary DIGIC DV image processor.
Enhancing still-shooting performance, the FV M30 camcorder features the same mode dial employed in Canon’s range of digital cameras, enabling users to quickly and easily match camera settings to the shooting conditions. The new mode dial allows users to select from a range of 15 preset shooting modes, including Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Sports and a six-setting Special Scene Mode (Foliage, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Spotlight and Fireworks), which optimizes camera settings according to both the subject and the location. Moreover, a new function button offers easy access to a host of camera settings, including metering, white balance and image-size.
Other advanced digital still functions include high-speed consecutive shooting of up to 10 frames per second, a choice of three metering settings and, for the first time in a digital video camcorder*, 9-point AiAF with selectable single-point center focus.
The FV M30 camcorder offers distinctive styling with streamlined body shapes that flow uninterrupted from the lens to the viewfinder. Backing style with performance, the new systems offer a high-quality wide TV mode, and a backlight button for the LCD playback monitor, allowing users to view images in bright conditions.
* As of January 18, 2005
| Power Supply (rated) |
7.4 V DC |
| Power Consumption (While recording AF=”ON”) |
3.5 W (using viewfinder), 3.6 W (using LCD screen in normal brightness) |
| 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 | Video cassettes bearing the MiniDV mark |
| Tape speed | SP: 18.81mm/second (0.74 ips) LP: 12.56 mm/second (0.49 ips) |
| Maximum Recording Time (with an 80-min. cassette) |
SP; 80 min. LP; 120 min. |
| Maximum recording time | 2.5″ TFT color, approx. 123,000 pixels |
| Fast Forward/Rewind time | Approx. 2 min. 20 sec. (with a 60 min. cassette) |
| Lens | f=4.6-64.4 mm, f/1.8-3.0, 14x power zoom 35mm equivalent: Tape: 4:3 recording: 47.8-669 mm 16:9 recording: 40.9-573 mm Card: 37.6-526 mm |
| Minimum Focusing Distance | 1 m (3.3 ft.); 1 cm (0.39 in.) on maximum wide angle |
| Minimum Illumination | 1.1 lx (using the Night mode) |
| Recommended Illumination | More than 100 lx |
| AF System | 34 mm |
| Viewfinder | 0.33″ TFT color, approx. 113,000 pixels |
| Microphone | Stereo electret condenser microphone |
| Number of Recording Pixels | Still image: 1632 x 1224, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480 pixels Movie: 320 x 240, 160 x 120 pixels, 15 frames/sec. |
| Image Format | Still image: JPEG (compression: Super Fine, Fine, Normal) Movie: Video data: Motion JPEG, audio data: WAVE (monaural) |
| File Format | Design rule for Camera File system (DCF), Exif 2.2* compliant, DPOF compliant * This camcorder supports Exif 2.2 (also called "Exif Print"). Exif Print is a standard for enhancing the communication between camcorders and printers. By connecting to an Exif Print-compliant printer, the camcorder’s image data at the time of shooting is used and optimized, yielding extremely high quality prints. |
| DV Terminal | Special 4-pin connector (IEEE 1394 compliant) |
| Video Terminal | 1 Vp-p/75 ohms unbalanced |
| S-video Terminal | 1 Vp-p/75 ohms (Y signal), 0.286 Vp-p/75 ohms (C signal) |
| Audio Terminal | Audio output: -10 dBV (47 kohm load)/3 kohms or less Audio input: -10 dBV/40 kohms or more |
| Microphone Terminal | 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack -57 dBV (with 600 ohm mic)/5 kohms or more -37 dBV (with 600 ohm mic)/5 kohms or more (MIC ATT ON) |
| Operating Temperature range | 0-40°C (32-104°F) |
| Dimensions | 70 x 82 x 133 mm( 2.8 x 3.2 x 5.2 in. ) excluding protrusions |
| Weight | 530 g (1.2 lb.) |