this is probably the most exciting unboxing i've done in a while this is
the canon xa10 hd camcorder so we are
finally upgrading our ancient sony hd
camcorder that we use for shooting ncix tech tips this is an
sd sdhc sd xc
um camcorder so what it means is we're recording completely onto solid state
media which is pretty nice both for speed and for convenience all right
um all right what do we got here so this is
probably okay warranty registration card
oh a transfer utility so yeah we're
finally replacing the ncix tech tips camera i'm so stoked
this is a much higher quality much higher caliber of camera than what we've
used in the past okay we got a transfer utility here
we got um camcorder music data image mix data disk
okay sure why not uh register your camcorder now and receive exclusive
benefits from canon okay uh canon professional services transfer
utility installation guide woohoo instruction manual so this is like thick
this is a big old instruction manual one third of it is english so it shows you
how to change the timeline you know what let me see if i can find something with the general uh specs of the unit so that
i have something to refer to because i haven't really looked at any information
about it since i pre-ordered it which was like two months ago uh it's taken a
really long time to come in stock okay so here's the highlights of the xa10 so
i'm gonna put that aside for myself to refer back to and let's start finding
some accessories and whatnots here okay
oh my goodness i don't even know where to begin with this okay this looks like
a battery pack we're just gonna like open stuff up
because we're gonna be using this camera today hopefully yeah intelligent
lithium-ion battery you see that okay okay
all right what do we got next next we have a
remote wireless controller okay
next we have some screws
okay those are mounting screws for something in all likelihood another
little battery
okay some kind of little clip i better not
lose any of this stuff looks like there's some assembly
required here folks here's the lens cover thing put that on
the end of the camera excellent okay what do we got here uh power brick
and uh this garbage is gonna start blowing away if i don't find something
to do with it so here you can look at the power brick while i figure out what
to do with my garbage i'm just gonna put it in my pocket for now i think okay
okay we're good so power brick
uh power cord nothing really exciting there okay now we're getting into some
cables so our first cable is a component out
cable so that uses a little interface on the
camera outputs component for monitoring what you're doing
all right next we got so this is where our
looks like our mics plug into
so we have two channels there little buttons to eject them we've been
using like a consumer level camera up until now oh look at all this
so we can like change it and stuff cameraman probably
knows a lot better than me what all of this does because i'm kind of a camera
idiot but that's a zoom right that's zoom yeah he's giving me the indication
that that is indeed zoom some kind of lock start stop oh okay now it's not
locked sweet so here's a shoe for um i
don't know flash whatever it is it looks good love it
okay next we have
this some other kind of more different
bracket
it's got like soft rubber on it here and here
hold something okay
look cameras are not my strong point guys you wanted to see a professional camera
unboxing go somewhere else this is just me unboxing my new toy okay
usb 2 for transferring files and finally composite output from the
camera itself so that's just your um
single video and then stereo audio so
now i have the xa10 camera
which is safely packaged inside bubble
wrap it's actually really small i was expecting it to be a little bit bigger
so uh here why don't i just read off the packaging what some of the key features
are ham highlights of the xa10 hd recording with
a uh digit dv3 processor cool okay one third
inch cmos sensor that captures video it infects a pixel count of approximately
2.07 megapixels which is 1080p okay wide zoom lens with a focal length
at full at wide angle of 30.4 you know i'm just
going to hold this out here and cameraman can look at it because he knows what's interesting and i don't
uh emphasis on versatility manual controls at your fingertips face
detection infrared recording ooh in the dark so we can do like uh night tech
tips uh relay recording and double slot recording so when your sd card is full
you can just um oh simultaneously to two memory cards which is a convenient way
to back up your recordings interesting or you can record to one
then the other and just swap memory cards as you go so that you can record
without interruption other features audio you can use the
built-in microphone mic audio input terminal or the two xlr audio input
terminals when recording lcd screen and viewfinder why don't we have a look at
that 100 frame coverage which ensure that you can accurately check that your
shots are framed how you want them so let's just go ahead and open that up
nice big wide screen you know what let's see if the uh battery pack has any
charge on it sometimes they do you never know
okay let's uh figure out where the button is to do the
thing oh okay hold on maybe i can mount this too
so ah so this goes on here
so that's pretty straightforward oh no no it slides in here first so you slide
in like lift this up
lift these up
slide in like that once you have them lifted up
sufficiently there we go put that back in there
make sure it's making good contact screw these bad boys in
new tech tips camera okay gotta get them lined up before
they'll screw in that makes sense that's very intuitive
okay got that there
so yeah i don't even know what that thing is up there but
so we assembled it a little bit now uh we did not put the microphone holder on
since i do use a lapel mic that mounts right here so uh yeah we won't be using
that at all we'll just be using our little wireless unit and then let's uh
it's not charged at all so i can't really show you guys any of that we got
powered image stabilization got our touch screen here that little piece that
i couldn't figure out what it was that's a stylus so we won't be using that in
all likelihood okay here we can switch between uh playback and recording mode
here's where the sd cards go pretty sweet
yeah yeah infrared on and off it's very
ergonomic i'll tell you guys that much like the the feel of it is very nice so
i can very easily reach the zoom controls up here slides very smoothly so
that'll be good for nice smooth zoom shots from cameraman here's the
viewfinder if we're not using an external display which we in all likelihood will be using this is
something no idea okay start stop uh
here we can change between a few different modes manual auto and cinema
oh i think this is focus right is that focus yeah cameraman says that's focus
so we have manual focus now high
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and uh i think that's pretty much it so
oh okay okay okay we have to do one more shot here we have to do one more shot okay here give me give me this give me
this okay cameraman has to hold the camera and then i'm gonna show you guys
a glimpse of the cameraman this is what it looks like when he's
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