Canon’s just announced the U.S. rollout of its updated VIXIA line of HD camcorders, and the best one is the HF11. It keeps that slim and tiny form factor of its HF10 predecessor that so impressed us last January, but adds twice the internal flash memory space and a higher 24Mbps recording bitrate (up from 17Mbps) for even crispier HD footage. If the recording time that’s just shy of three hours won’t be enough, you can add a removable flash card to its 32GB of built-in flash memory for twice the fun.

Out of the gate, this bauble might break the bank, tilting the scales at a steep $1199, but that’s bound to trend downward as time goes on. Also to ship along with this HF11 in September is the bulkier HG20 ($949) and HG21 ($1299), with similar features but more recording time due to their internal spinning hard drives. To give you an idea, the flagship HD21 can record all day on its hard disk, laying down more than 11 hours of high-quality HD. Now if they could just create a battery that would last that long.

Via Electronista