I used the HF200 on a recent trip out of the country and loved the quality, both the build quality as well as the video I recorded. The camcorder feels very sturdy in hand, and is just perfect size to fit in the palm of my hand when in use, and in my pants pocket when idle (large pocket pants though). The battery life wasn't the greatest, however it charges extremely fast and lasted about 80-90 minutes. The thing to keep in mind is that you will record a short clip, couple of minutes maybe?, and turn it off. Since the camera boots in no time this saved me a lot of battery life.
I did have some trouble holding the camera steady while zooming. While the zoom on this camcorder is amazing and reaches really really far, holding the camera steady while doing so was really difficult and the image stabilization was not exactly helping me either.
I also don't know how my 20gis of video on the SD card became 100gigs on my computer after importing it to iMovie; this by the way took about 2 hours over a USB cable while I was hoping to just copy the SD card over and be done with. iMovie didn't recognize just a copied file so importing from the camcorder was the only way to go.
The video looks just awesome on my 40" Sony Bravia LCD. With the quality, size, and the dropping price of this thing, I really don't see how you can go wrong with the HF200. Get more detail about Canon VIXIA HF200 HD Flash Memory Camcorder with 15x Optical Zoom.
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