Canon XA10 Prosumer 1080p Full HD Camcorder Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,489 words · ~7 min read
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this is probably the most exciting unboxing i've done in a while this is
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the canon xa10 hd camcorder so we are
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finally upgrading our ancient sony hd
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camcorder that we use for shooting ncix tech tips this is an
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sd sdhc sd xc
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um camcorder so what it means is we're recording completely onto solid state
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media which is pretty nice both for speed and for convenience all right
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um all right what do we got here so this is
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probably okay warranty registration card
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oh a transfer utility so yeah we're
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finally replacing the ncix tech tips camera i'm so stoked
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this is a much higher quality much higher caliber of camera than what we've
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used in the past okay we got a transfer utility here
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we got um camcorder music data image mix data disk
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okay sure why not uh register your camcorder now and receive exclusive
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benefits from canon okay uh canon professional services transfer
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utility installation guide woohoo instruction manual so this is like thick
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this is a big old instruction manual one third of it is english so it shows you
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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
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i have something to refer to because i haven't really looked at any information
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about it since i pre-ordered it which was like two months ago uh it's taken a
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really long time to come in stock okay so here's the highlights of the xa10 so
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i'm gonna put that aside for myself to refer back to and let's start finding
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some accessories and whatnots here okay
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oh my goodness i don't even know where to begin with this okay this looks like
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a battery pack we're just gonna like open stuff up
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because we're gonna be using this camera today hopefully yeah intelligent
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lithium-ion battery you see that okay okay
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all right what do we got next next we have a
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remote wireless controller okay
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next we have some screws
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okay those are mounting screws for something in all likelihood another
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little battery
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okay some kind of little clip i better not
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lose any of this stuff looks like there's some assembly
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required here folks here's the lens cover thing put that on
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the end of the camera excellent okay what do we got here uh power brick
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and uh this garbage is gonna start blowing away if i don't find something
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to do with it so here you can look at the power brick while i figure out what
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to do with my garbage i'm just gonna put it in my pocket for now i think okay
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okay we're good so power brick
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uh power cord nothing really exciting there okay now we're getting into some
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cables so our first cable is a component out
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cable so that uses a little interface on the
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camera outputs component for monitoring what you're doing
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all right next we got so this is where our
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looks like our mics plug into
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so we have two channels there little buttons to eject them we've been
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using like a consumer level camera up until now oh look at all this
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so we can like change it and stuff cameraman probably
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knows a lot better than me what all of this does because i'm kind of a camera
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idiot but that's a zoom right that's zoom yeah he's giving me the indication
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that that is indeed zoom some kind of lock start stop oh okay now it's not
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locked sweet so here's a shoe for um i
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don't know flash whatever it is it looks good love it
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okay next we have
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this some other kind of more different
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bracket
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it's got like soft rubber on it here and here
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hold something okay
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look cameras are not my strong point guys you wanted to see a professional camera
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unboxing go somewhere else this is just me unboxing my new toy okay
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usb 2 for transferring files and finally composite output from the
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camera itself so that's just your um
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single video and then stereo audio so
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now i have the xa10 camera
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which is safely packaged inside bubble
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wrap it's actually really small i was expecting it to be a little bit bigger
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so uh here why don't i just read off the packaging what some of the key features
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are ham highlights of the xa10 hd recording with
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a uh digit dv3 processor cool okay one third
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inch cmos sensor that captures video it infects a pixel count of approximately
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2.07 megapixels which is 1080p okay wide zoom lens with a focal length
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at full at wide angle of 30.4 you know i'm just
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going to hold this out here and cameraman can look at it because he knows what's interesting and i don't
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uh emphasis on versatility manual controls at your fingertips face
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detection infrared recording ooh in the dark so we can do like uh night tech
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tips uh relay recording and double slot recording so when your sd card is full
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you can just um oh simultaneously to two memory cards which is a convenient way
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to back up your recordings interesting or you can record to one
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then the other and just swap memory cards as you go so that you can record
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without interruption other features audio you can use the
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built-in microphone mic audio input terminal or the two xlr audio input
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terminals when recording lcd screen and viewfinder why don't we have a look at
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that 100 frame coverage which ensure that you can accurately check that your
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shots are framed how you want them so let's just go ahead and open that up
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nice big wide screen you know what let's see if the uh battery pack has any
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charge on it sometimes they do you never know
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okay let's uh figure out where the button is to do the
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thing oh okay hold on maybe i can mount this too
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so ah so this goes on here
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so that's pretty straightforward oh no no it slides in here first so you slide
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in like lift this up
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lift these up
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slide in like that once you have them lifted up
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sufficiently there we go put that back in there
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make sure it's making good contact screw these bad boys in
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new tech tips camera okay gotta get them lined up before
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they'll screw in that makes sense that's very intuitive
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okay got that there
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so yeah i don't even know what that thing is up there but
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so we assembled it a little bit now uh we did not put the microphone holder on
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since i do use a lapel mic that mounts right here so uh yeah we won't be using
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that at all we'll just be using our little wireless unit and then let's uh
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it's not charged at all so i can't really show you guys any of that we got
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powered image stabilization got our touch screen here that little piece that
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i couldn't figure out what it was that's a stylus so we won't be using that in
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all likelihood okay here we can switch between uh playback and recording mode
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here's where the sd cards go pretty sweet
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yeah yeah infrared on and off it's very
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ergonomic i'll tell you guys that much like the the feel of it is very nice so
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i can very easily reach the zoom controls up here slides very smoothly so
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that'll be good for nice smooth zoom shots from cameraman here's the
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viewfinder if we're not using an external display which we in all likelihood will be using this is
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something no idea okay start stop uh
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here we can change between a few different modes manual auto and cinema
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oh i think this is focus right is that focus yeah cameraman says that's focus
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so we have manual focus now high
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technology for ncix tech tips
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and uh i think that's pretty much it so
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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
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this okay cameraman has to hold the camera and then i'm gonna show you guys
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a glimpse of the cameraman this is what it looks like when he's
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holding a camera thanks for checking out this unboxing online as tech tips don't
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