request score

Critic reviews

no critic
score yet
1 review
  • Video recording quality
  • Audio recording quality
  • Recording capacity
  • Battery life
  • Durability
  • Portability
  • Ease of use
  • Design and form factor

sort by

User reviews

7.0
1 review
  • Video recording quality
  • Audio recording quality
  • Recording capacity
  • Battery life
  • Durability
  • Portability
  • Ease of use
  • Design and form factor
no
data
CamcorderInfo Jul 2, 2009

The Canon XH A1 is a dynamite camcorder – that’s the bottom line conclusion. You want more? Ok, perhaps we should recap. The video performance is pretty much identical to the XL H1, Canon’s top-of-the-line camcorder. It loses the lens interchangeability, which may be too much to swallow for...

Read the full review →
7.0
peterostrander peterostrander

A great little prosumer camera for the budding indie artist, but you'll run into problems if you use this camera for freelance work. Canon's XH A1 uses it's own HD encode, making it very difficult to capture footage from the tape if your aren't ingesting with an XH A1. I...

Read the full review →

How it stacks up

Instantly compare the Canon XH A1 side by side with some of the top devices on gdgt!

Compare these

Other Canon camcorders

Don't forget to check out these other devices by Canon, you might find something good!

See all Canon camcorders