Canon announces two new camcorders with hard disk integrated into the U.S. market. Just that we saw recently in Japan, models HF11 and HG21 HD. These videocamras Vixie will be put up for sale in the U.S., so we can serve the Europe and Latam. As a guide price.

We recall that the model HF11 comes with a disc of 32GB SSD internal card slot to accommodate upcoming SDHC cards 32GB, 12x optical zoom, 2.7-inch screen and a maximum resolution of 1080p recording. The model HG21 HD has quite the same, but with 120GB hard drive and recording AVCHD. The price of this camera will be $ 1299 (840 €) and the model HF11 $ 1,199 (775 €).

Rob Galbraith has conducted an analysis on the ground with the new firmware to see if the known problems autofocus were resolved after 3 firmware updates and a correction hardware. The problems are probably due to the new sensor for the autofocus mounted on these reflex and problems with a mirror mounted on some copies. During the start of 2008 in Canon has worked hard to correct the problem, probably with a view to the Olympics, since the problem manifested more in shooting sports performance.

With the new firmware the ability to maintain a subject static or moving to fire becomes very very high, but in some cases the camera still overestimates the speed of movement of the person. The situations in which the quarry better if people are moving slowly or moving gradually, like a runner crossing the frame.

The AVCHD camcorder HF10 Canon was unanimously hailed last year, Canon now has a little bidouille for release HF11 ahead. The internal storage rises from 16GB to 32GB and a high quality mode MXP to 24Mbps has been made. Otherwise other functions remain the same.

The same craft was made on the HG10 the past year (which becomes HG21), with 24Mbps mode, a 120GB hard drive and its ability to save movies on SD cards while only still images could be. Both models will be available in August for $ 1,300.

Photolectic published a comparison between the Canon 5D and the new Nikon D700 by comparing the characteristics of these two reflex. We decided to restore the table below and the second part after the jump.

Canon rumors public indiscretions on the Canon PowerShot G10, heir to the G9, which probably will arrive in September to photokina 2008.

Besides the features below will have a more accurate viewfinder, will be lighter and longer-lasting battery.

Below is a list of characteristics transpired so far:

1. Resolution: 14 megapixels
2. LCD: 3-inch VGA
3. Videos: HD (720p)
4. Processor: DIGIC III
5. Objective: 28-220 (8x)
6. Type Memory: SD
7. ISO: 80-1600
8. External Flash: optional
9. Price: $ 499

With this review DpReview concludes the overview of 4 lens reflex 70-200 available for which we have already spoken in the past. This lens announced by Sigma-December 2007 for Canon, Nikon, Sigma, Pentax and Sony has a name that describes in detail this lens, EX identifying the best range of optical Sigma, DG which was designed for digital SLR and, finally , Macro because it is able to focus posts subject to one meter, surpassed only by Tamron, but much better than Canon and Nikon. In hand by a feeling of strength and is definitely better than the Tamron finished, but not reach the levels of Canon and Nikon.

On reflex APS-C, the sharpness is better around 100mm and openness is better between f / 5.6 f / 8, but behaves well opening up, especially with focal shorter. The chromatic aberrations are minimal at 70mm and 200mm increase to where we see the worst result of the four competitors, while distortion is maintained at low levels without creating big problems. A real problem for this lens is the fire which tends to be consistent and in fact in some forums we talk about front-focus to 200mm in the cases of photos macro can be important, while in normal almost non-existent.