Canon Vixia HF11, HG20 and HG21 high-definition camcorders

Its been a year since the Vixia HF10 camcorder was launched and today we hear that Canon has added another three high-definition camcorders to the Vixia line, the Canon Vixia HF11, HG20 and HG21.

All of the above models use Advanced Video Codec High Definition format when recording to memory cards, hard drives and flash drives.

The Canon HF11 HD camcorder features a 32GB flash drive (that’s 16GB more than the HF10), and a SDHC card slot for expanding the camcorder with another 32GB of storage. You will need a Class 4 SDHC card if you wish to record full high-definition video, and this will give you 12 hours of footage on the lowest-quality setting and 3 hours on the highest setting.

The Vixia HF11 can shoot still images at 3-megapixels, and write video at a 24Mbps bit rate (this is the maximum an AVCHD codec can record at). The HF11 will cost around $1300.

The two other new HD camcorders are the $1300 Vixia HG21 with a 120GB hard drive that records 11 hours of footage at the highest setting, and the $950 Vixia HG20 with a 60GB hard drive and records 5.5 hours of video at the best setting. Both of these camcorders record to SDHC cards as well.

While we do not have an exact release date it’s rumoured they will be available in September this year.

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