After drooling a little over JVC’s latest pro-spec video camera earlier this week, it only seems right to pay a little attention to Canon’s rival camcorders, the XF305 and XF300. Each capable of recording 1920 x 1080 Full HD video in MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps Canon XF codec, they have hot-swappable dual UDMA CF card slots, Canon 18x HD L-series lenses and the company’s latest DIGIC DV III Image Processor.
Of course there’s also optical image stabilization, a 4.0-inch, 1.23-megapixel articulated LCD preview screen and dual XLR inputs for external audio sources (in addition to the built-in stereo microphones). As with the JVC, none of this comes cheap: expect to pay $7,999 for the Canon XF305 or $6,799 for the Canon XF300 when they arrive in late June 2010.
