Canon Elura 40MC
Camcorder | February 16th, 2008
The Elura 40MC is a compact and versatile camcorder offering a unique combination of features to produce both high-quality video and stills from the same camera. It’s a camcorder that offers point-and-shoot simplicity without limiting your ability to take command and stretch your creative wings when you want. Note its extensive offering of digital video special effects and its optional ability to make color prints without connection to a computer.
The 40MC has no infrared illuminator, but the automatic exposure modes do an excellent job of quickly adjusting the aperture and shutter speed as the lighting adjusts; the camcorder will quickly adapt when you move from daylight to indoor lighting, for instance. The camcorder has eight modes such as Sport (which uses the fastest shutter speed to capture action) and low light (which uses a slow shutter speed to make the most of existing light).
The Elura 40MC offers the superior quality of digital video, the ability to take digital still pictures and store them on a MultiMediaCard, as well as the optional capability of making prints without connection to a computer. The Elura 40MC also gives you a host of new digital effects, automatic and manual controls, and offers quick and easy connection to your computer.
Microphones positioned this way pick up more noise from outside of the camera’s field of view than do camcorder microphones located on the case front. In particular, if the person holding the camcorder speaks or coughs, it can drown out other sounds, such as the subject of the video. Although the 40MC does have an input for an external microphone, there is no way to mount it on the camcorder without buying the SA-1 Adapter Bracket, which costs $40.
Features
- Digital Video Format and IEEE 1394
- 680,000-pixel CCD
- Image Stabilizer
- Precision Canon Optical Zoom Lens
- Shooting Modes
- MultiMediaCard and SD Memory Card compatible
- Color Viewfinder and 2.0″ LCD Screen
- Direct Print
- Exif Print
- Programmed Auto Exposure
- Manual Controls
- Digital Effects, Faders and Special Effects
- PCM Digital Stereo Sound
- IEEE 1394 Input and Output Terminal
- Video and Audio Inputs and Outputs
- Additional Features