Canon Concept 4K Camera at Canon Expo NYC

Canon recently held Canon Expo 2010 New York, an invitation only event featuring over 150,000 square feet of exhibition space at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. Among the highlights, Canon demoed a new 4K concept camera and 4K monitor, and showed off a their new XF100/XF105 camcorders.

The 4K working concept camera weighs a mere 5.5 pounds, and shoots 4K video at 60 frames a second using a single 2/3-inch CMOS sensor. The camera will likely never be released by Canon, but is definitely an interesting development.

Canon also featured the new Canon XF105 and XF100 Professional Camcorders for mobile HD video capture, Canon's smallest professional camcorders to date. The new XF105 and XF100 utilize the same Canon XF Codec featured in the Canon XF305 and XF300, an MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps codec used for exceptional high-definition image quality, offering twice the color resolution of HDV and other 4:2:0 formats. These camcorders include in-camera features enabling the easy set-up and capture of high-definition 3-D video when two XF105 or XF100 camcorders are paired, as well as Canon's built-in infrared low-light feature enabling the capture of HD video in complete darkness.

[Gizmodo via Philip Bloom & Canon Expo 2010 NYC]