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Canon’s New VIXIA Mini Compact Person Camcorder With a Fisheye Lens

Chris Gampat
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07/31/2013
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Last Updated on 07/31/2013 by Chris Gampat

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No, this isn’t the 75MP beast of a camera that you’ve all been waiting for, but it is surely still something quite cool. Today, Canon is announcing a brand new VIXIA camcorder that they’re coining the Mini Compact Personal Camcorder. It is being aimed at bloggers and because of that, there is built in WiFi. The camcorder sports an 15mm f2.8 fisheye lens and features a closeup mode that gets your subject closer to you by using a smaller area of the sensor. The camcorder has a 2.7 inch capacitive touch screen along with a 12.8MP CMOS sensor, takes Micro SD cards, and the company is also seriously pimping its microphones for audio recording.

It shoots 1080p video at 24p or 30p, but you can also shoot at 720p at a lower file size.

The camcorder will retain for $299.99 in September. More images and tech specs are after the jump.

Tech Specs

F2.8 fisheye lens 15mm field of view comes to a 32.1mm

Close up mode

2.7 inch touch screen capacitive tilt and rotate

230K dot LCD

12.8MP CMOS sensor

Micro SD card

Built in Microphone

256KB/s recording

Built in wifi

Live steaming ability via your phone

Built in stand

Fast motion 2x or 4x speed

Bit rate 24MB 1080p 24p or 30p

At 4MB/s it can drop down to 720p video

1/2.3″ sensor

Interval recording for time lapse shooting

1 minute or 10 minutes 6 hours at one minute

160 grams or 5.6 oz empty

3inch by 1inch by 3.1 inches

$299.99 available in september

MPEG-4

White and black

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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