Taking Photos With A Camcorder

The Canon Vixia HFM301 is my current camcorder.  I purchased it last year for hmmm $299?  Can't remember exactly, but price would have definitely been one of the selling points that caught me.

Other things that drew my attention to it were the image stabilization feature, SD Card slot, and the microphone input jack.  That was something I had looked for in many different models but they were all a little too pricey for me.

I hope to one day put together a boom mic and then it will come in handy.  Or of course doing an interview with someone while they were a lapel mic will improve the audio greatly versus using the built in microphone as it tends to pick up ambient noise.

Now on top of HD video it also takes still pics.  That feature came in handy when while on vacation last year our digital camera crapped out and the HFM301 stepped up to the plate to substitute.

Now we are one vacation again and I brought that same Polaroid digital camera from last year for snapshots, but also brought the Canon Vixia for "just in case".  We're in Savannah, Georgia this time.  I'll take a few pictures with the Canon and post them on here to show what it's capable of.