DC40 offers outstanding performance and innovative design features as the flagship DVD model in the company’s “Photo DV” video camcorder lineup. The DC40 realizes outstanding image resolution and rich color gradation through a variety of advanced features, including a class-leading^* 4.3-megapixel CCD sensor^**, an RGB primary color filter, Canon’s proprietary DIGIC DV image processor, and a Canon 10x zoom lens.

Canon’s new DVD video camcorder embodies the beauty of simplicity of form with a distinctive and attractive rounded body shape, based on the Curvature Design method, which has become the signature look of the DC series.

In addition to its luxurious styling, which offers hand-held comfort supporting easy accessibility to the 8cm DVD-R/RW media, the new camcorder boasts superior operability. The DC40 is the first Canon video camcorder to incorporate a power-driven built-in lens cover that automatically opens when the power is switched on and closes when recording has stopped. The model, which enables high-resolution capture of both video and still images, also gives users the convenient option of saving photo images either to a miniSD memory card or DVD. Alternatively, users can take advantage of high-speed transfer of photo images to a memory card and then later save them onto the DVD media.

* For DVD video camcorders as of January 25, 2006
** CCD utilizes approximately 2.74-million pixels when recording moving images on DVD, and approximately 4.0-million pixels when recording still images on DVD or card media