Canon LEGRIA HF S21

usability, image quality, portability, battery, color

zoom, durability, design

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, portability, image quality, price, size

85% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

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Fortunately, the most important thing the Canon Legria HF S21 doesn't have in common with the HF S10, at launch, is price. It's still on the costly side, coming in at around a grand. But this is much closer to the competition, making the HF S21 a much...

Movie and stills quality ; HD-to-SD file conversion ; Easy YouTube upload ; Loads of connectivity ; Storage options

Troublesome touchscreen ; Small colour viewfinder ; Considerable investment

Sitting at the pinnacle of Canon's 2010 range of consumer camcorders, the LEGRIA HF S21 is a powerful and practical Full HD model with a 64GB flash memory, 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen and two (yes, two) SD card slots.

Excellent set of manual features ; Dual SDHC slots ; Generally well-designed interface

Poorly designed touchscreen menu system ; Short battery life ; Defaults to low-quality video mode ; Doesn't support SDXC

If you're a video hobbyist or a pro looking for something portable to complement your workhorse equipment, the Canon Legria HF S21 is a solid choice. But if you don't need the more subtle aspects of the manual controls, such as shutter speeds below...

Not the easiest camcorder to use, but more than compensates with fine hi-def performance and pro-level features

The Canon Legria HF S21 is a good HD camcorder but its implementation of touchscreen control prevents it from being a truly great consumer high-definition camcorder.

While Canon spent a good deal of effort improving the features for the HF S21, it didn't do much (if anything) to improve the video performance of the camcorder. In our testing, the HF S21 actually did worse with color accuracy than last year's HF S11,...

We're mostly supportive of the updates made by Canon on the HF S21. The new, 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen is a wonder to behold, but it did have some of the same problems that plague most camcorder touchscreens. It didn't offer precise control, and we...

Native 24p, Component and HDMI output, Ultra-crisp focus, Effortless video transfer to computer

Grain in low light, Colors are a bit dull

You can connect the LEGRIA HF S21 to a TV using composite or component output, or for maximum quality you can use the mini HDMI terminal to connect it to a HD TV. A USB port provides computer connectivity. The LEGRIA HF S21 allows you to convert AVCHD...