canon hg10 question

[mickey]

hi guys is the canon hg10 camcorder a full 1920x1080 camcorder or is it only 1440x1080.looked all over and cant find out not even on canons site cheers. Mike

[mickey]

found this in another thread.

" I am using Pinnacle 11 and it works just fine. Good range of output file types.

Question - I thought I has the HG10 in its full HD mode but in pinnacle it says that the videos are 1440 X ***.

and found the answer mid -typing ---- The 3-megapixel CMOS chip shoots native 1,920x1,080 HD video, which then gets downconverted and interlaced to 1,440x1,080 AVCHD".

why on earth do you get to shoot at 1920x1080 that is then converted to 1440x1080 by the camcorder does the hf100 do this as well.not happy.Mike

[senu]

There is little or no discernable quality loss.
All HDV camcorders do that anyway

[mickey]

hi, thanks, do all canon camcorders do that?, surely pixel 1 to 1 is better, shooting 1920x1080, exporting 1920x1080 displaying 1920x1080 on a 1920x1080 display of course. will a hf100 do the same. cheers Mike

[A n d r e w]

The HF100 records 1920x1080. The HG10 doesn't. As Senu has pointed out, it's tough to discern the resolution difference when the variance is in the horizontal axis. A difference in the number of pixels on the vertical axis (the number of lines of video) is usually discernible.