Canon LEGRIA HF M506 HD Camcorder (PAL)

Canon HD CMOS Pro Sensor

The HD CMOS Pro sensor is designed and made by Canon for its professional camcorders. The light gathering area is 160% bigger than conventional CMOS sensors, which delivers a wider dynamic range and advanced low-light performance

Optical Intelligent IS

Intelligent IS is the perfect solution to combat camera shake. It automatically detects the scene and selects exactly the right optical Image Stabilizer settings from four modes to counteract movement and prevent blur. It ensures sharp, detailed videos in every situation - leaving you free to concentrate on shooting

Audio Scene Select

It's simple to make your movies sound as good as they look, with Audio Scene Select and a high-sensitivity, built-in zoom microphone. Just select one of the five scene modes and your audio settings will be automatically optimized

Canon HD Video Lens

The camera's high-quality, Canon HD Video lens with 10x optical zoom and 200x digital zoom features an iris diaphragm for soft background blurring

SD/SDHC/SDXC Card Slot

You can record all your videos and still images straight to an SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card. The card slot supports up to a 64GB memory card

Creative Cinematic Features

Use Story Creator to develop your video skills and effortlessly create memorable short videos with a story - just choose a theme and follow the built-in scene suggestions. Or, you can inspire creativity with Cinema-Look Filters and add fun effects to your movies without a PC using Touch Decoration

Fingertip Control

Operation is easy, thanks to the high-resolution 3" (7.6 cm) gesture-based touch-screen LCD panel. The touch screen delivers intuitive fingertip control of shooting and playback functions

Effortless Shooting

Creating a high-quality movie is effortless with Smart Auto. Fully automatic, Smart Auto intelligently selects shooting settings from 38 scenes. Plus, Face Detection optimizes the settings for great people shots and Instant AF ensures fast and accurate focusing

PAL Recording Camcorder

The HF M506 camcorder is designed for use outside of North America. It's made for countries that support the PAL color encoding system. Phase Alternating Line or PAL recording is used in several regions around the world - including: North Africa, East Africa, Western Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South America (Brazil/Argentina), Great Britain, Australia and Oceania (South Pacific Islands). PAL camcorders usually record using 25p, 50i or 50p frames per second (fps), while NTSC camcorders usually record using 60p/60i/30p fps. North America supports NTSC recording, which means this PAL camcorder is not compatible with TVs and HDTVs in the United States and Canada

Other Features

Cinema features include: Cinema-Look Filters, Story Creator and Touch Decoration

38 scene Smart Auto

Program AE: Auto and manual P, Tv, Av, SCN (Portrait, Sports, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Night, Low Light, Spotlight, Fireworks, Underwater, Surface) modes

Program AE (Cinema): P, Tv and Av modes

Automatic or user-control backlight compensation

TTL white balance with Auto, Set, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent and Fluorescent H settings

1/2 - 1/2000 sec shutter speed

Auto, Fade and Wipe digital fade effects

Image effects with Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness and Color Depth custom functions

Touch panel custom control

Still image continuous shooting mode (during playback only) and simultaneous photo recording

10 second self-timer and 2 second self-timer (with wireless remote)

Yes/No record review and record search functions

AVCHD recording modes include: MXP 1920 x 1080 (24 Mbps), FXP 1920 x 1080 (17 Mbps), XP+ 1440 x 1080 (12 Mbps), SP 1440 x 1080 ( 7 Mbps) and LP 1440 x 1080 (5 Mbps)

MP4 recording modes include 1280 x 720 (9 Mbps) and 1280 x 720 (4 Mbps)

Camera supports 25p progressive recording, x.v. color, video snapshot and Pre Record function

Search video files by date

Auto Gain Control limit adjustment

DIGIC DV III image processor

Auto Face Detection technology, AF/Instant control and AF/TV AF control

Manual touch screen LCD control and touch focus control

Manual focus assist magnification

Dolby Digital 2-channel (AC-3) audio recording with internal mic and 5.1-channel surround with optional SM-V1 mic

Audio Scene Select and manual audio recording level control with internal/external mic mixing

Built-in zoom microphone with customizable frequency response and directionality

Terminals include: headphone jack, Mini-AB USB 2.0 port, AV output, HDMI v 1.3 (CEC supported) and a built-in charger jack

Quick Start via LCD touch screen

PIXELA Video Browser v2 and Network Utility v2 application software

Easy Web upload and HD to SD Web video conversion

Works with optional WD-H43 wide attachment

10 mm minimum focusing distance