Hi all!
As I told you before I’m going to do a great trip to Madagascar the 9th of April.
I love photography so I’ll bring with me my Canon EOS 40D & co. But honestly it’s not everytime possible to get DSLR out of the backpack (and in some places it’s not a good idea).
So I decided to buy a small camera for day-to-day use and to use it in some ‘particular’ situations in my trips. I read many specifications (I can’t believe how many digital cameras there are!) and finally I decided for the Canon Powershot SX210 IS.
It’s a 14 megapixel camera .. too much for my needs, but it’s not an issue (some people don’t like many megapixel on a small sensor .. I know .. but it’s not a problem for me).
The SX210 is really cute, I like really much its design (my camera is the black model). It looks quite solid in general, just controls look a bit fragile. The camera has many extra-features like fish-eye effect, color selection, video editing, macro-effect .. all features quite un-useful for me, but I apreciated them anyway.
I got it yesterday so I haven’t tested it too much, but I’m happy with it. It starts in a resonable time (I don’t compare it with 40D obviously) and the audio in video is not bad.
My first choice to shoot will be 40D forever but this camera will be helpful in many situazions.
A nice feature I didn’t know when I bought is the zoom, it’s a 14x optic but when you arrive at the end it zooms with digital zoom up to 56x (it’s impressive!) .. while zooming you can hear the ‘vrrrr’ (and you can hear it in your videos) but for me it’s not an issue :)
I posted a video on youtube to show the zoom of this camera :)
This is the link to Canon’s website
These are the firsts impression on this camera, if I’ll find something else I’ll write in the next days, for example I’m curious about the battery time.
