HF Legria M31 (Canon Camcorder) Review
HF Legria M31, Nature Explorers Camcorder from Canon
Canon now ranks Legria equip them with the touch screen feature. The first product tested was named Legria HF M31. Does the new camcorder features a stamped ‘expensive’ is in line price?
Design: A Practical and Lightweight
HF Legria M31 was light, with a bandage patterned metallic black color. This camcorder feels solid and comfortable to hand, even though large-handed users.
Shown with an SD memory slot, this is going to make it easier Camcorder the video grapher, who will take pictures for editing. Users live scan files from SD card to your PC, without a firewire cable. This is an advantage Legria, as a precursor to a flash memory camcorder. Same as the previous series, HF M31 comes with AVCHD format storage.
When we open, this camcorder LCD, on the left side there is the Power button IS. Canon claims this technology could allow users to do panning clearly, while maximizing the zoom.
While on the outside LCD, there is the display button and the battery info. Then there is next to the quick view button, to play back video clips that have been saved.
Still the same as the previous series, there is a panel next to the camcorder zoom and image capture to take pictures. On his right there are 2 panels and auto-manual mode switch.
Overall, the design of HF Legria this M31 was practical – from the transfer of video files – and lighter in hand. As a result of this camcorder is easy to tuck into a bag, for adventure wherever users go.
Smart Touch Screen, Touch Screen Not Just Ordinary
Yes, now Legria comes with touch screen feature called smart touch screen. This feature of responsiveness of taste the same as the Sony camcorder. In the LCD itself, the menu display key functions are located in the upper right side.
Some of the menu key functions include: aperture priority, zoom, AGC, WB, MIC, video light, pre rec, and the digital transition effects. From the experiments performed, there are two excellent features that the Smart Touch screen: Touch Touch Focus and Exposure.
When tried to record some people in one frame, Face Detection function automatically highlight a few faces. When tested with minimal lighting conditions, HF M31 is able to identify three faces at once.
Well, after catching a few faces, HF M31 can choose which face is selected as the main focus. Way, simply by touching the LCD screen. Meanwhile, users can still lock the face of it, so stay focused and optimally exposed.
While Exposure features Touch, allows camcorder to lock the exposure on certain areas just by touching the screen. This feature is very usefull for video editors who love to play the color correction.
Offal Legria HF M31
HF Legria M31 HD CMOS sensor size 1 / 4 inches, with a resolution of 3.89 megapixels. This sensor is able to produce a relatively high resolution but with lower noise levels.
From the side of the brain, this camcorder is equipped with a DV DIGIC III processor, which is supported Canon HD lens with optical zoom of 15x.
Canon HF Legria equipped M31 32GB of internal flash memory, which can store up to 12 hours of video recordings. When the internal memory is full, the camcorder will automatically transfer the recording to SD / SDHC cards, with the aid of Relay Recording named feature.
This product is also equipped with flash lights on the front left side. Unfortunately, HF Legria M31′s light this feels less bright, with the effective range of only 1.5 meters. Even when compared, the light that comes out of the lights ‘torch’ belongs to the Nokia E63, it appears brighter.
Performance: Ability to ‘Catch’ Birds Fly With Perfect
One of the interesting features of the HF M31 is the IS and Dynamic Power Mode. With features Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS), users can adjust the sharpness of focus photos or video.
Basically, this feature serves to greater compensation of motion when the user maximizes the farthest zoom, and reduce image blur for greater range.
Sure enough, when test drive Canon Legria on Mount Bromo in East Java in the morning, we tried to take pictures of a hawk flying over the carpet of trees. Previous zoom lens gives a chance with a maximum distance, to follow the bird in a panning motion. The results screen does not shake uncontrollably camcorder.
But after we pressing – how to resist – the Power button on the left of the LCD IS, object-panning birds in the clear. As a result the speed of a flying bird, was clearly panning of M31 lenses HF. This feature is proven to reduce a smoother motion.
Canon claims, this feature of the model adopted distance binocular (binocular). So the user must hold the Power button IS, if you want to activate it. When the button is released, the lens works as usual.
Conclusion:
With all the excellent features of the above, Canon camcorder with a price of USD $ 1,222, Is it expensive? That relative, considering the top class technology that Canon is always offered.
This camcorder fits intended for video grapher who is not at the level of ‘know’ camcorders. So the user can do more exploration, when I want to produce a video. This product is also suitable natural explorers brought or users who like to capture a rapidly moving object.
If you want to have this camcorder with a cheaper price, Canon provides a type of ‘brothers’ HF M31, but with minus features 32GB of internal memory. His name is HF M300, valuable for USD 1110.
Pros:
+ Power IS stunning
+ Lightweight and practical
Disadvantages:
- Relatively Expensive
- ‘Flashlights’ Camcorder monde
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