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Mark here again, helping the amateur photographer wade through the best Canon PowerShot reviews with this small blog about the Canon PowerShot. Like I’ve mentioned before, I’m not here to review a specific model of the Canon PowerShot, but to give you a good idea of what the camera can do.
The entire Canon PowerShot series has a fantastic zoom lens built into them. Most models will have great optical zoom capabilities and very stable digital zoom capabilities as well. The stabilizer that is built into the camera is excellent. I’ve taken great pictures off of a cruise ship at far off “subjects” (sailboats, islands, whales) and they turned out clear and surprisingly sharp.
One aspect of the Canon PowerShot that I’ve learned to love (being a former SLR film guy) is the in-depth ability to customize the settings. For a “point and shoot” camera I feel like I can really tweak the settings to help me create the photographic moment I want to capture.
Even though some of the custom settings are still automatic, more or less, I love that I can choose the brightness (F-stop), speed (ISO), and the color scale the camera will use (helps make pictures vibrant, or soft, etc).
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I remember buying a certain brand of film to make the blues bluer or another brand of film to make the greens greener when developed. With the Canon PowerShot, the camera seems to make all the colors more “er” than normal. I love it!
The Canon PowerShot also has some great helpful features for the user/photographer. It has an option to turn on grid lines to help you really see how you’re framing your picture and using the rule of thirds. You can also change if the camera meters the light in one specific area of you can have it balance the light by metering in multiple areas.
The multi-metering option really helps the user/photographer capture clear pictures in the “real world” (not on a set with controlled lighting). Another really cool feature is you can print your pictures right from the camera. I know that my nephew has really enjoyed taking pictures with me and then coming home and printing the pictures right then on my home printer. Sure beats waiting a week for your film to be shipped out, developed, and shipped back.
In my opinion, the crowning accomplishment of the Canon PowerShot is that you get all these cool user friendly features and sharp quality pictures and the camera can literally fit in your pocket. I still have my camera bags with multiple lenses and filters and gizmos and gadgets to help me get a quality picture.
It’s amazing to me that a small compact camera can do so much and produce such high quality photographs. There are a lot of compact digital cameras out there on the market but I haven’t found a camera that has combined quality photography with easy to use features.
The Canon PowerShot truly lives up to its name. There are several models of the PowerShot to choose from so check out amazon.com or other retailers to read the best Canon PowerShot reviews so you can select the PowerShot that fits your needs the best.
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