To help deliver great results in difficult and tricky lighting conditions, the digital video camera features a comprehensive range of modes including EASY, Auto, Sports, Portrait, Spotlight, Sand and Snow, Low Light and the Night mode already mentioned. Super Night mode with a white LED allows for shooting in zero-light conditions and a Night+ mode permits switching the LED on and off whilst shooting helping extend battery life. A USB port allows for easy transfer of stills and clips stored to card, and direct print to any PictBridge capable photo printer without the need for a computer.Īn external Night mode button allows for immediate switching without having to enter the menu navigation. A mechanical shutter provides true digital still camera functionality, eliminating the blur that plagues photos from conventional digital video cameras. Depending on memory card capacity, up to 60 minutes of Motion JPEG footage can also be recorded straight to card. Still images created with the 1.33 Megapixel sensor are stored as JPEG images direct to either MMC or SD memory cards and are suitable for producing album prints. Ĭanon has drawn on seventy years of camera manufacturing expertise to provide the facility to capture quality digital still images whilst shooting video footage. EIS limits frustrating image shake for calm, steady and pleasing footage, particularly important at high magnifications and making tripod use unnecessary in most shooting situations. A double neutral density (ND) filter is fitted to prevent white clipping (loss of differentiation in the brightest whites) that can occur when shooting in bright conditions such as at the beach or in snow. Precision opticsĭrawing on over 60 years of precision optics experience, Canon has fitted the MV880X with a glass lens containing an aspheric element for high contrast, sharp footage, free from the spherical aberrations caused by low quality lenses. Menu options are designed to be intuitive and simple to navigate. To make shooting easy, single purpose external buttons include a ‘Night Mode’ button, LCD Backlight button to raise LCD backlight brightness when shooting in bright conditions and a Widescreen button to switch between normal 4:3 and wide screen 16:9 modes. The ergonomic oval design includes flush switches and recessed buttons, contributing to both ease-of-use and the streamlined feel. As well as the ‘Easy’ button for switching between full auto and program mode, a number of other key controls sit right beneath the fingertips for intuitive, single-handed operation. Simple to useĮverything about the MV880X is designed to make shooting and playback super easy. To give footage and stills a panoramic feel, a 0.6x wide converter lens comes as standard. Letter Box display is used for correct ratio representation of 16:9 footage during recording and playback, avoiding an otherwise ‘squashed’ image. The MV880X features high-resolution 16:9 wide screen mode for cinema-like full screen viewing on wide-screen television. It also produces higher resolution digital stills, more suitable for album prints.ĭespite its tiny size (only 51mm thick and weighing just 430g), the MV880X features a large 2.4” colour LCD screen. The extra resolution delivers significantly higher quality video footage, more commonly associated with much more expensive models. With its 1.33 Megapixel sensor, the MV880X has greater resolution than the 800K models making up the rest of the MV800 series. The digital video camera’s DIGIC DV image processor provides true split path processing for video and digital stills, and is PictBridge compatible for direct printing to compatible photo printers without the need for a computer. The digital video camera features a powerful 14x optical zoom and Electronic Image Stabilisation (EIS) for high clarity, shake-free footage and stills, high-resolution 16:9 wide screen mode with letterbox display, Super Night mode with white LED, Night Mode, a double neutral density filter for bright conditions and web cam functionality. With its dark metal finish, the MV880X combines Canon’s easiest ever operation with uncompromising build quality and precision optics.Ī new ‘Easy’ button that puts the camera into full auto mode has been introduced for the benefit of users looking for immediate, uncomplicated results straight out of the box. The camcorder is designed to appeal to style conscious first time buyers looking for quality, simplicity and high resolution 16:9 mode. Simplicity from Canon’s new MV880X digital video cameraCanon, leader in photographic and imaging technology, is pleased to announce the launch of the new flagship to the MV800 digital video camera series: the 1.33 Megapixel MV880X.
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