If you’re a pro in the market for a new camcorder, you might be interested in Canon’s newest announcements. The nearly-identical twins known as the XF100 and XF105 claim to be Canon’s smallest pro cams to date, and still feature the XF codec from the XF300 and XF305 (for those who’d forgotten, that’s an MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps video codec, it is). Both models record to hot-swappable CF cards, 10x Optically Stabilized HD zoom lenses, DIGIC DV III processing engines, infrared low-light recording, and features to help align two of them for use in recording ridiculously high-quality 3-D footage.
The two models are differentiated merely by the XF105 having HD-SDI output and genlock in/SMPTE time code terminals.
You can read Canon’s full press release after the jump.
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