Canon LEGRIA HF G70 4K Camcorder - 4K UHD/25P - 20x Optical Zoom Lens - Optical Image Stabilization - Dual Card Slots - USB-C Connectivity, Live Streaming Support

Another quality canon camera

Bought this as a backup camcorder and to be honest it’s as good as my main (expensive) camcorder Great quality video as you would expect from Canon, can’t find anything negative about this item. Highly recommend Speedy delivery and well packed and good value for money

I’ve had the opportunity to put the new Canon HF G70 to the test over the last month, which has been a good length of time to see where its successes and failures are. Generally, I’ve been really happy with the video camera, and what it’s been able to offer, but I’ve also lived with some of the reasons why these kinds of cameras have fallen out of favour compared to the mass of compact and mirrorless cameras that offer exceptional video as well as the obvious photographic advantages. My typical use of the camera is for my Amazon reviews, such as this, and game streaming videos for YouTube where I have the video camera overlaying its image over the game footage via Streamlabs OBS. Normally, the camera is fixed in place on a tripod or camera arm on or around my desk. The Canon is a traditional video camera. An evolution of those massive things your mum and dad used to have. You generally film one handed with your right hand clasped between the camera body and a soft adjustable strap. The lens is not interchangeable, so you’re limited to the factory optical parameters (in this case a 58mm lens with 20x optical zoom). It’s a familiar concept to anyone who has owned video cameras in the past, and is really only for videoing. Although it has the ability to take photographs you wouldn’t buy this camera with any intention of shooting stills with it. Unlike a mirrorless camera that offers high quality stills and video in the same body. Statistics wise, you’re getting a camera capable of 4K (with a suitable memory card) at 25 frames per second, or Full HD at up to 50 frames per second. It can also do x2, x4, x10, x20, x60, x120, x600, x1200 fast motion rates at 4K, adding x0.5 slow speed at Full HD 25 frames per second. The body of the camera features a USB-C/Thunderbolt power port towards the rear which the mains adapter fits into, or can be powered from other suitable source such as a USB hub or portable power bank. This can provide power while the battery is still in place, and you are not restricted by charging when filming. This works well and I’ve filmed for lengthy streaming stints of up to 2 hours with no issues at all. Towards the front there is a port area behind a door that has a second USB-C/Thunderbolt port to allow connection to your PC/Laptop, a mini-HDMI port for connection to TVs, a port for a remote controlled (sold separately) and port for both a microphone and headphones. It’s nice to see a headphone port as that’s not always present. I would have preferred to see a full-sized HDMI port as I’m sure there’s room for one, and they’re much more common cables. I do have a very good mini-HDMI cable so it’s not an issue for me, but that’s not the case for everyone and it’s just extra expense. You could also use a USB-C to HDMI cable if you have one. The USB-C port has provided reliable and instant video straight to my laptop, and there appears to be no delay between the moving picture and the sound coming from my Blue Yeti microphone. That wasn’t the case with my Logitech Brio 4K webcam that I usually use which was always 4-5 frames behind the sound. Elsewhere you get a tilt and flip screen to allow you to film selfies. The screen has a very good touchscreen which is nice to use. On the rear of the camera is the record button, a menu button and a toggle joystick to navigate the menus. I found the positioning of the menu button to be awkward, and quickly found navigating around the menus to be actually fatiguing with the weight of the camera wanting to roll away from you. There’s a physical switch on the top of the camera to turn it on. Forward to turn on recording mode, backwards to switch it to playback mode. I felt there was a sizeable delay between switching from one mode to another. There a several buttons on the body of the camera that can be personalised within the menus to perform various different functions. What was frustrating was that while there are lots of different functions you could choose, the one function I wanted to choose was a record button. The reason behind this is that I record the vast majority of my content from in front of the camera, and the record button is not only at the back of the camera but in an awkward to reach position from the front. The flip and tilt screen has two customisable buttons that would be perfect to have as a second record button, but the option isn’t available. Fortunately, for my workstream, I use software on my laptop to control recording of the camera so I rarely actually touch the physical record button. That’s not going to be the case for everyone though. The battery mounts on the rear of the camera and the sole-supplied battery is good for a claimed 180 minutes of filming. I’ve not done enough mobile filming away from a power source to see if that’s realistic, but looking at the drop-off on the battery indicator I would suggest that might be optimistic. The memory card slot is hidden behind the tilt/flip screen, and then behind a lift-up door. There you will find two SD memory card slots. This is nice to see as you can safe guard yourself from memory card failures by setting up a dual-record function. There’s actually a few options you have here, which I liked seeing, such as having one card dedicated to video and the other to photography for example. When I first started playing with the camera I found that the memory card I was using wasn’t good enough to allow 4K filming. I got a message saying that I was limited to Full HD recording with that memory card, so I got hold of a Lexar Professional 1667x SD card from Amazon which is rated highly for its data transmission speed and 4K filming was soon available to me. You get a removable lens cap, and also a hood with built-in lens flap. I prefer the hood for my personal application, and the flap works well to quickly get filming. Over the last month I’ve done about a dozen YouTube and Amazon videos and I’ve been really happy with footage I’ve gotten. I’ve filmed in both bright and low light conditions and been pleased with the footage, and also in artificially lit conditions too using a combination of my Neewer studio light panels, a Zhiyun Molus light cube and the Philips Hue colour GU10 for ambience. I’ve gotten much better results than I ever did with my previous camera solutions. There is a degree of image stabilisation to the camera, so going hand-held won’t produce those horribly shaky video productions of old, but realistically I’d suggest a stabilising rig for super-smooth filming. Would I buy it though? That’s a tricky question. It’s a great, relatively compact, all-in-one video camera. It will appeal to a lot of people familiar with that type of camera. And it will appeal to people who just want a video camera, and perhaps one that is straight-forward to use. As a simple point-and-shoot video camera, it’s really good. But, it’s not for everyone. Content creators probably won’t be interested in it. You’re limited to the lens, there’s no waterproofing and it’s still quite bulky compared to compact cameras such as the Sony ZV range. People serious about video production would go for the incredible range of mirrorless cameras you can now get, such as the Panasonic Lumix S5 II or Fuji X-H2. They’ll give you so much more functionality, and offer all the different filming file formats you’re going to ever need. And they’re superb still cameras too. For me, it’s doing everything that I want it to do as a video camera. I already have a DSLR camera for stills. But, would I have spent £1,089.00 (at time of testing) on purely a video camera of this specification? Probably not. £1,000 will get you an awful lot of equipment these days, which will do what the Canon does and more. It won’t get you the S5 II or the X-H2, not by a long way, but it’ll get you a Sony ZV which is an incredibly popular option for many. Really pleased with my time with it as I have been, I’d suggest the Canon would need to be £200-300 cheaper for me to seriously consider it as a purchase.

Several worthwhile improvements over the previous HFG50 model: Larger LCD with higher resolution and four levels of brightness; higher resolution Viewfinder; improved Autofocus with excellent face detection; Autofocus on moving subjects (useful for wildlife moving across the frame); USB-C connection to computer with auto recognition of HFG70 as external source; and, USB-C charging.

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This is a very nice camera with a lot of automated features that make it easier to make high quality recordings, even if you are an amateur. Also good sound, even without adding an external microphone. I'm still looking for a good way to have it more stable when shooting, but that is because I am unexperienced. It is expensive, but worth the money.

Cela fait un moment que je voulais m'acheter cette caméra, premièrement parce que j'utilse canon et que je trouve leur produit géniaux. Deuxiement, qualité prix elle est la moins cher! Comme je le pensais le modele au dessus et plus cher ne l'ai que par la poignée avec xlr pour micros. Cette première mouture est donc parfaite pour tout le monde. Les pro adoreront l'utilisation manuelle qui permet de zoomer et régler l'objectif et ses boutons sur tous les côtés, les autres sont mode automatique qui donne dés la première utilisation une grande satisfaction. La prise casque permet de brancher un micro (pour ma part un shure sm57 pour prendre les voix) et si vous voulez acheter un pied pour l'xlr avoir deux micros branchés. Dans les deux cas le son est avec les deux voix ce qui donne déja l'impression d'tuiliser deux micros vu qu'ils sont de chaque côté de l'objectif. Pour les plus faignant ou jeunes, l'écran tactile vous amusera. Je préfère la molette avec les pouce on y arrive bien. Tout cela pour dire que vous avez trois façons de faire vos réglages selon vos habitudes et envies. ce qui est plutôt bien car générallement il n'y a pas bcp de solutions donc un point fort ! Très bonne tenue dans la main pas lourde, s'adapt très bien sur un pied comme tous les appareils depuis des années. J'ai mis le par soleil car je n'ai pas envie de l'enlever mais vous avez la possibilité d'avoir le cache de l'objectif. (Seul bémol, je fais comparaison avec ma mini dv de canon.. l'objectif n'a pas de corde qui le maintienne sur l'appareil. C'était pratique pour qu'il ne tombe jamais...) Comme je laisse le par soleil dessus, il y a un clapet donc cela m'importe finalement. Vous pouvez régler le son de chaque côté ce qui est pratique. L'enrgistrement est trés puissant, un peu trop durant certains concert..Mais je vais pas me plaindre car dehors en interview cela passe sans soucis. Deux slot pour les cartes SD, en mode auto elles enregistrent l'une après l'autre ou vous pouvez faire en sorte d'avoir un back up si vous avez peur de perdre des données mais encore une fois c'est un choix. Petit bémol, encore une fois par rapport à mon précedent camescope, le haut parleur pour écouter votre enregistrement est cette fois côté de la main! Donc vous cacher le son si vous tenez le camescope avec votre main droite. J'avoue l'avoir du côté de l'écran j'aimais bien, aussi vous le son j'avais une molette cette fois ci il suffit d'appuyer sur le bouton menu... Dans l'ensemble une superbe caméra qui ravira tout le monde ! Petite déception lors de captation de concert, (je suis passé des K7 mini dv au cartes SSD ce qui n'est pas une mince affaire) l'image dans les rouges avec fumée etc sur scène a toujours du mal a faire une image parfaite mais c'est le seul point qui m'a sauté aux yeaux si je puis dire. Je conseille à tous! Amazon reste le moins cher! Suel si vous payer en plusieurs fois le prix augmentera un peu mais par rapport au marché ça vaut toujours le coup.

Premetto che ho acquistato questa videocamera per scopi lavorativi. Nonostante attualmente tantissime persone che scelgono di fare i videomaker, optano per videocamere cinematografiche o fotocamere mirrorless soprattutto per via del famigerato sensore full frame, io ho optato per i camcorder in quanto ci sono svariate caratteristiche molto interessanti che ti fanno rimanere su un prezzo accessibile avendo comunque un dispositivo in grado di soddisfare la quasi totalità delle esigenze. Non starò qui ad elencare tutte le caratteristiche tecniche o a fare un pro e contro tra camcorder e altri dispositivi correlati, ma, riporterò la mia esperienza di utilizzo in 3 mesi dall'acquisto di questo dispositivo. Innanzitutto, dimensione compatte, struttura solida, peso equilibrato rendono questa videocamera molto molto versatile senza avere bisogno di borse grandissime e senza avere bisogno di avere con se un gimbal in quanto la stabilizzazione dell'immagine (settabile in 3 diverse funzioni) funziona molto molto bene anche con zoom a 20x. La durata della batteria è ottima per essere quella di serie, specie se si registra di continuo e senza un uso eccessivo dello zoom si superano le 2 ore di registrazione. Possibilità di registrare in 4K a 150Mbps (solo a 25fps, unico limite seppur solo se si ha bisogno di effettuare degli slow motion in post produzione) quindi avendo una qualità di immagine all'avanguardia e un sensore che nonostante le dimensioni di 1/2,3 pollici quindi molto molto più piccolo di un full frame riesce ad avere davvero delle performance eccellenti. Si ottengono dei bokeh incredibili già a 5/6x di zoom. Senza zoom riesce ugualmente a sfuocare in maniera soddisfacente. Non al pari dei sensori principali per questo tipo di riprese (APS-C e Full Frame per l'appunto), ma qualunque persona che vedrebbe un video registrato con questo camcorder non arriverebbe mai a pensare che un sensore da 1/2,3" possa riuscire a sfuocare in questo modo. Grazie anche alle 8 lamelle del diaframma che si apre fin a 1.8. Ed è qui che viene il bello siccome i sensori piccoli riescono a lavorare con un diaframma molto aperto permettendo di avere comunque un'ottima profondità di campo. Con un full frame sarebbe impossibile avere un video a fuoco con un obiettivo aperto a 1.8. Tantissime funzioni professionali come la doppia ghiera di controllo, marker, leve per lo zoom, mirino, paraluce e ampio display in HD sono solo alcune tra le tante caratteristiche interessanti di questo dispositivo. Venendo all'unica caratteristica "negativa" dell'avere una videocamera utilizzata per servizi di videomaking è il lato B dell'avere un sensore di piccole dimensioni, ovvero il rumore nelle immagini con scarsa luminosità. Bene, posso dire che Canon ha lavorato benissimo a riguardo in quanto a partire dall'ampio margine di guadagno della videocamera (24db massimo), il sensore fa difficoltà solo ed esclusivamente se riprendiamo in situazioni praticamente di buio. In luoghi interni và alla grande, all'esterno di notte altrettanto, al massimo mi sono spinto sui 12db di guadagno avendo un'immagine si rumorosa ma non così tanto da compromettere la qualità della registrazione e riuscendo senza troppi problemi a migliorare il tutto in post produzione. Solo superando i 18db l'immagine tende ad acquisire un quantitativo di rumore significativo. Ma ripeto, spingersi oltre i 18db significa registrare al buio quindi consideriamolo uno svantaggio perché si sa, il full frame in condizione di scarsa luminosità o di buio è il migliore in assoluto, ma anche con sensori più piccoli, lavorando rigorosamente in manuale, riusciamo a fare il nostro lavoro comunque bene. Che dire, pagata €950 con il Prime Day, questa videocamera offre immagini di altissima qualità con un diaframma a 8 lamelle che si apre fino a 1.8 quindi abbiamo un obiettivo apertissimo. Tutto ciò viene gestito da un sensore e da un processore d'immagine che valorizzano davvero tanto i vantaggi di avere un camcorder all in one, sempre pronto per qualsiasi occasione. La consiglio vivamente a chi ha un budget limitato, a chi preferisce la comodità di una videocamera standard e a chi anche lavorativamente parlando, non ha pretese "da cinema". Anche perché è davvero così utile?? :)