Canon LEGRIA HF R88

The Japanese company Canon is known not only for cameras and printers. One of the brand's income items is formed by video cameras for both professional and amateur purposes. A remarkable example of the kind of the latter is the Canon LEGRIA HF R88.

Top equipment

The model is a complete copy of the HF R86 camcorder. The only difference is the presence of a WA-H43 wide-angle nozzle with a magnification of 0.7x in the factory. By winding it around the front lens of the camcorder, it is much easier to shoot in tight spaces. The standard camera optics provides a 32x zoom in the range of 38.5-1232 mm (we are talking about the equivalent of a full frame). Few? Hold on to the 1140x digital zoom!

Touch screen

The camcorder starts up when the screen opens. A number of tasks for the operational management of shooting parameters are shouldered on his shoulders, for which the display was “brought up” with support for touch input. You can also operate the settings remotely using the services of wireless modules Wi-Fi and NFC.

Video capabilities

Videos are recorded on the camera in FullHD format (1920x1080 pixels) at 50 fps. At the maximum settings, the recording can last up to 3 hours in a row — this is how much accumulated energy reserves in advance in the 2760 mAh battery tanks are enough. In case the flash drive is left at home, the camcorder will save the footage to the internal memory of 16 GB. In the case, the operator has access to a number of automatic modes and manual adjustment of the shooting parameters. The only serious “but” is the small physical size of the camera sensor, which is why it does not do the best job with video shooting in low light. This fact will not be critical for amateurs, but video production pros will prefer models from a higher league of video cameras.