Ability Awareness Through My Lens Post 18

This week on Ability Awareness Through My Lens the holiday launch has arrived for 2019! As we know after Black Friday the days seems to speed up with holiday cheer everywhere we go! Our first adventure starts with our annual Member Appreciation shindig! It was such a fun event with the food and the atmosphere and of course the amazing staff from Access Sacramento! Please enjoy the fun video slideshow with our adventures!

Our second adventure was buying a new camera to capture all our field productions. Here is our review of the Canon VIXIA HF G50: Overall, this is not your regular run of the mill camcorder. It is packed with all sorts of features and has the capacity of making professional documentaries if not more. We are going to keep playing with it and deliver any new information as we discover. I feel there is so much more to it than what we have described below. Most importantly we feel it ís pretty intuitive for a basic user. For any extra settings I suggest reading the user manual closely to learn about so many possibilities this camcorder offers.

1. Fairly easy to use. It does not have too many buttons on the outside, most controls are placed on 3î LCD touchscreen. You can go through settings with touch panel or the joystick located on the outside of the camera body. Yes, there is a mini joystick, left-right-up-down and set button in the middle for those who do not wish to look away. It also has five customizable buttons you can assign to your favorite features so you don’t have to browse through settings. There is a 0.24-inch TILTABLE electronic viewfinder. You can tilt up to 45 degrees for your comfort. Touchscreen is made from 460,000 pixels and looks AMAZING. I also found it to be pretty intuitive comparing to my old Sony camcorder. It has presets and several special scene modes to choose from for different occasions like sports, low light shooting and more. I still did not get to use them all but definitely appreciate the low light one. If you are a basic user these presets modes are PERFECT to work with until you get to figure out all possibilities of the Canon Vixia G50 has to offer.

2. The camcorder measures 8.4 x 4.3 x 3.6 inches, and weighs 2.1lbs (main body only) which is pretty lightweight to carry around even for longer periods of time.

3. It has options of both slow-motion and fast-motion recording in 4K and full HD! I am personally more impressed by slow-motion, This camcorder makes me feel very creative and I am already thinking about videos. For those more tech savy: Slow motion recording up to 60fps in Full HD but 30 fps in 4K UHD.

4. Optical zoom lens 20x. It allows you to keep 4K quality for the entire zoom range. You can be using optical zoom between 1x-20x, its all Ultra HD. This means image quality stays equally good. No more zooming in but having to compensate the shot quality.

5. Face detection autofocus! You can also manually select desired focus area on the touch screen.

6. It has 2 SD card slots to store recordings . That ís plenty of memory to be creative, make sure to bring extra battery pack. It is possible to simultaneously record on both SD cards, if desired to have backup of your shooting or you can choose relay recording which allows for interrupted recording from one card to another when the first card gets maxed out on memory. Files are recorded in MP4 format. SD cards are not included but I suggest getting the highest capacity you can find.

7. HDMI port. This Camcorder can output HDMI while recording, meaning you could simultaneously record and have your recording play on an external monitor. It also has a USB port, mic input, and headphone jack.

8. Battery life is 2hrs of continuous recording when using all the features and up to 3hrs on low power settings. Battery Pack BP-820 is included, I will probably get extra batteries for all day events.

9. It is compatible with lots of extra cool accessories from Canon. One being advertised is RC-V100 Remote Controller which allows user to set adjustments and operate the camcorder from distance.

In summary great camcorder. I feel this is something that could last a lifetime to a basic user. You can literally jog and shoot and still have great footage. At the same time I also feel that if not used in its full capacity spending this kind of money would be a waste.