Canon still video camera

Canon Still Video combines conventional still camera technology with the video medium to produce images that can be used in any video environment. When you take pictures with the Canon Still Video camera, they are recorded on the Video Floppy disk in a special analogue format. These images can be used with ordinary video equipment, including television displays, videotape recorders and video printers. Of course, now they can also be imported to your computer with a video capture card, to give you high quality images for a wide range of applications.

The Video Floppy disk is a magnetic storage medium, containing 50 tracks on which information can be recorded. Depending on the capabilities of the Still Video camera, a Video Floppy disk can store 25 or 50 colour pictures, in frame or field mode respectively. Field mode pictures produce very good quality results when played back by the camera and digitized, but frame mode offers the additional resolution necessary for high quality image processing and printing, and is recommended for Canon RC-570 users.

In addition to the video information stored on a VF disk track, each picture is tagged with the date and time when it is recorded. This information is extracted automatically by the camera, to provide almost unique identification of each picture, which can be stored by the computer with the image


The Canon RC-570 camera introduces another important function: the ability to record still pictures on Video Floppy disks from an ordinary video source. This means that you can now capture pictures with the computer, modify them, and then record them back to the Video Floppy disk. Any PCbased images from popular applications can be recorded, making the medium ideal for preparing video presentations, catalogues, archives and training material.