Apr 02, 2010 03:33 PM
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GhtI have bou this camera from a nearby dealer nearly 10 months ago and I am very much satisfied wth it.before buying the camera, I did a lots and lots of research on the internet and finally zeroed down on Canon, nikon and Panasonic. As I read the reviews I found that everyone has given canon very good ratings in terms of quality, but less in features. sites like cnet have given Panasonic more ratings just because it has some more useless features, but they have forgotten the main thing for which the camera is made, that is picture quality in which no body can beat canon.
I have gone to many showrooms and seen many cameras. first they insisted me on buying a Sony camera. when I saw it, the picture was much grainy. I liked canon and nikon but canon was a bit better than nikon in terms of producing accurate colours. This particular camera has a 12.1 mp image sensor, 6X optical zoom, 24X combined zoom, a 3 inches LCD screen. the camera uses 2 AA size rechargeable batteries.
The operation of the camera is fast. it takes very good pictures in low light as it as ISO 3200.
I think so speeds more than 3200 are useless as the picture becomes too much grainy.the AA battery feature is very important when you go to remote and distant places like hills for long durations, as these batteries are available everywhere.this canon camera takes very good quality pictures in appropriate light.the images are really clear and of top quality.
the mode dial is very good, unlike in Panasonic cameras.in auto mode, the camera automatically detects the iso speed, shutter speed and other settings according to the shooting conditions and detect and focus on faces.
it records in a very good quality VGA mode. I personally thinks that the vga quality is all we need. the size of a hd movie is very large and it will fill the 4 GB memory card very quickly, as the size of the vga itself is very large. The 6X optical zoom is a very important and useful feature.the camera has a long shutter mode which takes very good quality photos in very low lights, so much low that even the eyes cannot see in that light but the camera has to be perfectly still while taking photos.
