Canon XM2 User Manual

Can I bring dreams to life
with quality & versatility?

They've been dreaming about the wedding day for months.

Every detail has been planned. It goes perfectly. Bride and

groom look radiant and the guests enjoy themselves.

You can bring back those special moments in a top-quality

video recording.

SUPERB QUALITY

The Canon XM2 Digital Camcorder

combines the best of all worlds. Its

advanced technology delivers unri-

valled image quality in its class, while it

is still easy to operate. That makes it an

ideal choice for both serious camcorder

enthusiasts, professional video-

graphers and filmmakers. Whether

you're regularly providing broadcast

or web content, making educational

videos or recording an event like a

wedding, the XM2's high performance

will make your work more enjoyable

and the result more satisfying.

INSPIRATIONAL VERSATILITY

No two video shoots are alike. What's

happening, where it's happening, move-

ment, colour – it all demands a certain

amount of fine-tuning to capture the

special moments you want. The XM2

features adjustments and enhancements

for sound and picture for your personal

creativity. Plus a LCD screen for easy

viewing.

NEW GENERATION 3CCD

The Canon 3CCD system separates light

entering the camcorder into red, blue

and green, making colour reproduction

cleaner and sharper. The new high-

sensitivity 3CCD with 470,000 pixels

provides 540 lines horizontal resolution.

Fluorite lens
For sharp images
and perfect colour
reproduction.

YOU CAN

WITH THE XM2

3CCD unit
Guarantees
outstanding detail
and high performance.

Positioning the green CCD out of line

(pixel shift) sharpens image reproduction

even if your subject moves. A new Super

Pixel Shift (horizontal + vertical) achieves

wider dynamic range for movies, reducing

vertical smear and gives 1.7 mega-pixel

high resolution photos.

PROFESSIONAL FLUORITE LENS

Canon has always led the way in optical

development. The first to equip a cam-

corder with a fluorite lens – a lens that

provides the quality of 35mm and

broadcast TV. The XM2 has a Professional

L-Series fluorite lens. Combined with

20x optical zoom and 100x digital zoom,

plus an optical image stabiliser, you can

be sure of superior images.

CCD R

CCD G

CCD B

OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZER

We know how difficult it can be to keep

a camera still. So the XM2 is fitted with

an Optical Image Stabiliser (rather than

Electronic Stabilisation which can reduce

image quality). Its vari-angle prism reacts

to a sensor and bends the light rays, so

the image reaching the CCDs remains

steady.

SOUNDS GOOD

Some camcorder recordings have great

pictures but the sound lets them down.

For a fuller, richer, stereo sound, the

XM2 has a 'direction accurate' micro-

phone. This contains two pairs of pick-up

elements, each for left and right, giving

accurate stereo ambience and less

mechanical background noise. Also, you

can change the

microphone

frequency charac-

teristics to match

the recording

condition (normal,

voice and windscreen). For high-quality

PCM digital sound recording, an MA-300

microphone adapter is available.

AUDIO LEVEL CONTROL

Another sound-improving feature on the

XM2 is the 2-channel manual audio level

control. A special dial allows you to set

the L/R level to exactly the balance you

want for 2 channels. An easy-to-find

audio level meter on the camcorder body,

on the LCD and EVF screen shows the left

and right 24 segment peaks.

camcorder. But the downside of a normal

zoom lens can be colour aberrations.

The fluorite technology used in the XM2

L-Series lens eliminates almost all colour

deviation. This and the new 3CCD system

give viewers the pleasure of colours that

are much truer to life.

TRUE-TO-LIFE COLOUR

Fluorite is a synthetic crystalline sub-

stance with the ability to collect light at

a single point. It bypasses the limitations

posed by normal glass. The resulting

image is extremely sharp.

A zoom lens is an essential feature on a

Optional MA-300
adapter with 2-channel
XLR terminals.

QUALITY

YOU CAN SEE

QUALITY

YOU CAN HEAR

Glass lens

Fluorite lens

Red Red

Blue

Blue