Canon LEGRIA HF R38 - The camcorder with WiFi

Canon LEGRIA HF R38 is a digital video camera capable of recording Full HD video in the internal flash memory of 32 GB. The storage capacity can be expanded via SD memory card, SDHC and SDXC, and very easy to release the internal memory and move files to the memory card. And thanks to the direct copy function, or external hard drive, you can get videos and photos to a disk attached via USB. You can work in low light conditions, with a minimum of 4 lux illumination, except in night mode that operates at 0.4 lux. Smart Auto mode takes thirty-eight scenes. Autofocus can detect faces.

Canon LEGRIA HF R38 camcorder equipped with wireless communication capabilities via Wi-Fi, which means that you can access a local area network and wireless DLNA-compliant devices. It also made ​​a video uploaded to the Internet. For those cases, you may want to record video in MP4 format, which occupies less space, and is suitable for online sharing. Anyone who prefers a higher quality, you can select the recording mode in AVCHD format, from the existing five, has a resolution of 1920 pixels by 1080.

Canon has brought a little Wi-Fi joy to its entry-level range of HD camcorders with the creation of the Canon Legria HF R-Series.

At the heart of the action is a 3.2-megapixel Full HD CMOS image sensor and the DIGIC DV III processor which can help add the power of an updated image stabilisation system to your clips to make sure that they're not wobbling all over the place even when you're zoomed in at the maximum 51x.

You can watch it all happen through a 7.5cm touchscreen live view display and then beam it over your home network straight up to YouTube or to any DLNA compatible device you've got. The world is your lobster.

Where the three models differ is that the bottom end R306 sadly has no Wi-Fi at all nor internal storage system whereas the R38 has 32GB on board and the R36 8GB. All three come with a host of cinema-esque image filters, 38 smart scenes, face recognition and software known as Story Creator which is supposed to guide you through the movie making process step by step.