If you have been following all the reviews, photos, videos and conversations about the HG10 that our trialists have been posting, you may like to keep an eye on what’s they’re doing with their cameras on a daily basis on Twitter. Check out the Twitter feeds of Phil Campbell, Mike Atherton, Lloyd Davis and Thayer [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Join the HG10 Twitterers
Posted in HG10, Other forums, Triallist, tagged Canon, HD, HG10, Twitter, microblogging on February 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
US / UK compatability
Posted in HG10, Other forums, Triallist, tagged HG10, USA, PAL, NTSC, UK, warranty on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With the dollar lagging behind the pound like a Brooklyn cop who’s had one too many Dunkin’ Donuts, it’s mighty tempting to bag yourself an HG10 if you’re visiting Stateside. Karltimber of AV Forums is looking for his first camcorder and is thinking of getting his friend to pick up an HG10 in New York, [...]
New HG10 users get stuck in
Posted in HG10, Other blogs, Triallist, tagged HG10, trial, user experience, training video, gym on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re determined to find out what key figures in the social media think about the HG10 and how they can use it, and our latest collaborator is Lloyd Davis: social media consultant, blogger and leader of the London Social Media Club. Lloyd’s posted a short video about his first experiences with his HG10 and a [...]
Fishing for HG10 lens answers?
Posted in HG10, Other blogs, Other brands on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Remember our Vimeo and YouTube friend Rico Bergholdt Hansen who made the best video ever of a windmill? He’s just uploaded a short test video to show what kind of angle you can get using different lenses on the HG10. Starting with the HG10 on it’s own fully zoomed out, Rico then shows what kind [...]
Mac, Schmac – another Apple issue
Posted in HG10, Other forums, tagged HG10, iMovie, resolution, Mac, Quicktime, exporting on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over at Mac Forums, projectmk is having issues when exporting footage from iMovie, and this time the problem’s the size ofthe picture. Projectmk explains that he is shooting using HXP mode in the highest resolution, capturing the footage at 1920 x 1080i: “I bring it into iMovie at the largest possible size option, which is [...]
Speak up: HG10 or XH-A1?
Posted in HG10, Other forums, XH-A1, tagged Canon, HG10, review, XH-A1, comparison on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kirk, the administrator at Tampa Racing forum, admits that he’s ‘partial to Canon’ and has been looking for a new camera in their range. Having initially been tempted to go with an HG10 after handling one, Kirk has now seen footage of the XH-A1 online and admits that it ‘impressed the hell out of me’, [...]
Snap my beach up
Posted in HG10, Other blogs, Software, Triallist, tagged HG10, iMovie 08, external firewire drive, holiday, home video on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Even in miserable February we sometimes get some decent weather over in Blighty, and it’s traditional for everyone to change in to shorts and t-shirts at the mere sniff of a ray of sunshine- so what better way is there to celebrate a lovely sunny day than heading to the beach and filming your family [...]
Protect your memories
Posted in HG10, Other blogs, Other forums, Software, Triallist, tagged HG10, iMovie, back-up, dual-layer disc, hard copy, memories on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re using HG10s and other digital devices to record so much of our lives nowadays, from Phil Campbell’s video of his daughter Ella growing up all too fast, to Dailymotion’s scenic record of his Oregon vacation, to Lloyd and Mike‘s photos of their HG10 Flickr meetup. This makes it all the more important to remember [...]
Photo fun with the HG10
Posted in Digital photo mode, HG10, Triallist on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Something that often gets overlooked on the HG10 is its Digital photo mode. You can take 3-megapixel stills in photo mode or capture 1,920×1,080-pixel grabs while shooting in movie mode, something our triallist Lloyd Davis has fully embraced on his flickr page. In a recent trip to the London Transport Museum (with another of our [...]
The mystery of the missing thumbnails
Posted in HG10, Other forums, Software, tagged HG10, Corel, .mts, Vegas Studio 8, Ulead Studio 11 Plus, thumbnails on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Have you had problems viewing HG10 files? Tom Marks is going on holiday in a couple of weeks so he’s asked for some urgent advice on how to transfer and view his HG10 files. Using Vegas Studio 8, he found that he couldn’t view any of his scenes as thumbnails, even when they are saved [...]











