Create Your Vision
3CCD DIGITAL VIDEO CAMCORDER
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Incorporating precision optics, superior digital processing, and a sleek innovative design, the Canon GL2 offers reliable professional performance. Offering the highest level of control, the camera fully compliments one's vision and passion for excellence. Its advanced feature set allows users to handle even the most challenging tasks with confidence and ease.
Achieve Super High Resolution in Video
and Still Image Recording
3CCD
The GL2 maximizes the capability of the DV format by using a 3 CCD system assigning a separate CCD to each primary color (red, green, blue). A beam-splitting prism precisely separates the light passing through the lens into individual color components, and each is sent to its own CCD. This process achieves outstanding detail with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of the
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Pixel Shift
Canon solves common shooting dilemmas by using a signal processing technique called Pixel Shift, which has been used in professional grade video cameras for many years. It achieves wider dynamic range, reduced vertical smearing and sharper digital still images. 
The green component of a video signal contains 60% of the picture detail, and the red and blue components comprise only 40%. The green CCD in the GL2 is shifted vertically and horizontally the equivalent distance of 1/2 pixel from the red and blue CCD. The green signal is then sampled more frequently to extract the maximum picture detail from the video signal. This allows the GL2 to achieve resolution equal to camcorders with nearly twice as many pixels in video recording.
Professional L-Series Fluorite Lens
Canon has satisfied the demands of experienced image makers for years through the power, design and quality of 35mm and broadcast TV lenses. Our Professional L-Series lenses utilize Fluorite, a material which provides outstanding resolution, contrast and color reproduction, especially in lightweight, highmagnification lenses. Now incorporated into the lens on the GL2,
Fluorite delivers the ultimate clarity and image quality. The Fluorite element inside of the lens defeats color aberration - the effect when components of light stray from one another within a lens, causing a reduction in sharpness, contrast and color. Our Fluorite lens precisely controls components
of light providing an excellent balance of these three critical ingredients of picture quality. This is
unobtainable with conventional optical glass.
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Fluorite |
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Optical Image Stabilizer
Canon’s superb optical stabilization system corrects camera shake instantly so even hand-held shots, at full telephoto, and shots taken from a moving car, are smooth and steady.
And since it is optical, there is no loss of image quality inevitable with electronic image stabilizers. It perfectly 
complements the high picture quality of the DV format. 
Image stabilizer ON
Image Stabilizer ON
Vari-angle Prism
Fluorite Lens
Image stabilizer OFF
Image Stabilizer OFF
20x Zoom Lens with 100x Digital Zoom
The GL2 incorporates a 20x Professional L-Series Fluorite optical zoom lens which transforms distant subjects into dramatic closeups. The 20x optical zoom is the 35mm focal length equivalent of 39.5 to 790mm. The digital zoom, capable of extending to 40x and a maximum of 100x, provides sharper detail compared to others thanks to Canon’s superior lens quality. You’ll reveal details too distant to be seen with just the eye alone. At full telephoto the 35mm focal length equivalent is an amazing 79,000mm. Add the optional WD-58H Wide-converter to increase the field of view by 0.7x for indoor shots or panoramic views.
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Optical wide angle
100x Digital
20x Zoom
The Ultimate In
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16:9 Aspect Ratio
The GL2 is equipped with two 16:9 aspect ratio methods.
16:9 Guides
The 16:9 guides are thin white lines, which appear in the display only. They let you view a 16:9 wide screen composition while in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio, which is especially helpful if you're planning to transfer your DV footage to film.
16:9 Recording Mode
The GL2 includes a 16:9 recording mode, which applies an electronic anamorphic stretch allowing you to fill the frame of a 16:9 wide screen TV.
3 Shooting Modes
The GL2 has three shooting modes to accommodate any of your recording needs.
Normal Movie Mode
By merging Canon’s superior lens quality with 3 CCDs, the GL2 delivers stunning resolution and color reproduction - some of the best images outside of a TV studio. This mode records video in the standard interlaced fashion similar to conventional camcorders. Normal Movie Mode is ideal for recording video which appears smooth and natural during playback on a TV or video editing computer.
Digital Photo Mode
(1.7 Megapixel High Resolution Photos)
The GL2 features newly developed image processing, for capturing crisp, high-definition photos. Images may be captured in a choice of different image qualities and compression sizes to
suit your needs. Capture up to 10 stunning 1.7 megapixel (1488 X 1128 pixel) images onto the included 8MB SD Memory Card. Images may be also captured at VGA (640 X 480 pixel) in standard or fine compression. For added flexibility, you may take up to 700 still pictures on a Mini DV single tape (in SP mode). The camera
records the still pictures for approximately 6 seconds, as well as recording the sound for your verbal notes or narration. You can search through the recorded tape for your photos using the supplied remote control.
Frame Movie Mode
This mode captures video in a unique non-interlaced method allowing the GL2 to record 30 frames of video per second. Similar to a motor drive on a 35mm camera, Frame Movie Mode performs like a Digital Motor Drive. You’ll capture every gesture and expression of your subject with spectacular clarity. It’s perfect for users who choose to grab high quality still images from video for making prints, video for website content, or even sending emotionally charged images over the internet. The noninterlaced method has even been acknowledged by users for its cinematic-like appearance.
Digital Video
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