The Sony bluetooth wireless sets work surprisingly well - I've now modded a couple to have a hardwired lav mic for more versatile use - it would be NICE to have a input jack, but no such luck with the Sonys, though I did experiment with modding the latest ones that have an OUTPUT jack... but it won't work as an input when re-configured.

Hopefully Canon will put an input for a lav on the transmitter. It ooks like a minijack on top of the units. I doubt that they will go beyond a mini jack, as I think this mic is also an option for DSLRs, It is impossible to judge the size of the units, but they are probably the size of the Sony units, meaning that there is no room for anything like a XLR.

In my opinion there is a 200 USD sweetspot for wireless prosumer wireless mics. I have only an occasional need to for wireless mics, meaning that an investment in a Sennheiser kits is unrealistic. And I can easily live with prosumer build quality and mini jack I/O.

Canon XA10 Official Summary Document
 

As well as all the very detailed XA10 information on the Canon USA website that was posted at the start of CES 2011, see here:

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consum...amcorders/xa10

I have also just found this Canon overview:

Canon Digital Learning Center - The XA10: Canon's Smallest and Lightest Pro Camcorder

Happy reading!

There are some lovely new exciting features about the XA10, but why does Canon seem to also go backward in some things.
I have enjoyed using the little HFS100 on a number of paid jobs, and getting some excellent images from it.
That particular camera had a larger chip than this new model, with many more pixels, allowing an intergral x1.7 "tele" function to be used which wasn't half bad. It looks like I'll need to purchase a separate tele-converter for the XA10...

Its all about compromise with these cams. Canon saw that they wanted to maximize video quality this time around over features like hi res photos and the like. So using the 2.07MP chip allows for that.

The slightly higher yet much denser pixel packed sensor on the HFS100 allowed for that tele function as it was sampling a smaller section of the sensor.

The new sensor cannot do this because of its final native 1920X1080 size. But this trade off should increase overall image quality by a fairly significant amount over last years models.

The gap I see is between XF100 and XF300. I'd like to see something about the size and weight of the XF100 with a longer zoom lens, even if it did lose a little at the wide end. XF300 may be a lovely camera, but it's too big and too pricey...

Canon XA10 - first camera to suggest shots?
 

So is the Canon XA10 the first camera to suggest shots?

Good Grief !!

Am I missing something, or does the XA10 indeed lack the ability to record 720p60? That's a deal-breaker for me.

Sorry, no 720p mode in the XA10.