Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17020 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 2665B009AA
• Released on: 2008-10-31
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.23 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

The PowerShot SX10 IS Digital Camera

PowerShot SX10 IS Featuring a 20x wide-angle (28mm) zoom lens, the PowerShot SX10 IS offers exceptional telephoto reach - with image stabilization for ultra sharp results. Canon’s DIGIC 4 processor ensures fast, high-quality imaging, while full manual control delivers total creative freedom. Creative control – as much or as little as you like. Whether you’re new to digital photography or looking to explore your creative side, PowerShot lets you move at your own speed.

PowerShot SX10 IS Highlights

10.0 Megapixels The number of megapixels determines the amount of sharp detail a digital camera can record. With more megapixels, you can print at larger sizes, plus crop and enlarge without sacrificing quality. PowerShot cameras provide all the resolution you need for finely detailed, photo-quality prints with plenty of scope for post-shoot cropping. A full 10.0 megapixels of resolution ensure rich depth and detail, and lets you enlarge and crop images freely.

20x Wide-angle Optical Zoom The camera's Genuine Canon 5x Wide (28mm, f/2.8) Optical Zoom not only gets you in close, but performs with all the clarity and brilliance you'd expect from the world's leader in advanced optics technology.

Optical Image Stabilizer Any slight shake while hand-holding a camera can cause blurred photos. Canon’s optical Image Stabilizer (IS) technology ensures crisp, clear images by detecting and correcting this camera shake. The camera is able to microscopically adjust its own lens with absolute accuracy up to 4,000 times every second, so the image you see is the image you capture. Image Stabilizer is especially useful at full zoom, which exaggerates camera movements, and in low-light settings that call for slower shutter speeds.

Motion Detection Technology / High ISO/IS Canon’s Motion Detection Technology uses several methods to detect camera and subject movement and set exposure accordingly. The brightness of subject and background, movement of the subject (based on comparison of frames over time) Face Detection information and camera shake information from the optical Image Stabilizer (IS) gyros are all taken into account. Where motion is detected the camera automatically selects the appropriate ISO level to achieve a shot with minimal noise and zero blur.

Face Detection Technology Utilising the power of DIGIC IV, Canon’s Face Detection Technology ensures superb people shots in photos and movies by automatically detecting subjects in the frame and setting the correct focus, flash level and exposure.

Red Eye Correction This popular feature can now remove red-eye automatically during shooting, as well as in playback mode.

DIGIC IV Processing the vast amount of data generated by the PowerShot SX10 IS calls for power and speed. Enter DIGIC 4 with iSAPS technology, Canon’s most advanced imaging processor yet. It is the power of DIGIC that delivers the superb image quality, responsive camera performance, faster AF, faster continuous shooting and extended battery life. DIGIC processors are so fast they can read, process, compress and write image data back to the buffer between exposures, reducing the data bottleneck for extended continuous shooting.

2.5" Vari-angle LCD Screen The camera's 2.5-inch LCD screen gives you the big picture, whether you're shooting, reviewing or showing off your images. This extra-durable, high-resolution screen with tough scratch-resistant coating on the anti-reflective, PureColor LCD II screen offers a crisp, clear picture to make shooting, playback and using the camera's menu functions especially convenient. The vari-angle screen enables you to shoot above a crowds heads, or turn the whole thing around for a perfectly framed self portrait.

Sunset Scene Mode “Sunset” is added to the Special Scene Modes. This mode optimizes settings such as exposure and white balance, thereby making it possible to reproduce brilliant sunset shots.

30 FPS VGA Movies Shoot super-smooth, VGA -quality movies with sound. In-camera editing gives you creative control and slow-motion playback highlights every precious moment. Choose Long Play mode for stronger compression that allows twice as much video to be stored on your memory card.

Additional Features

	iSAPS Like a built-in photographer’s assistant, iSAPS is determining the optimal settings for each image even before you take a shot. It analyses the scene using PhotoSpace – an in-camera library of photographic data about the way people take pictures. It then controls the exposure, focus and white balance to ensure you get the best from every shot. My Colours Add a personal touch to your image or movie with Canon’s My Colours. Choose from vivid blue for the sky, antique sepia for the portrait or classic black and white for the landscape. These creative options and many more – normally available only on a computer – can be applied directly from your camera, before or after the shot.
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Customer Reviews

Outstanding and excellent value
I purchased this for my wife to replace her classic Nikon Coolpix 5400 which has been a wonderful camera over the years with a great 28-116mm zoom. I wanted a camera with a 28mm at the wide end and with more at the telephoto and having recently converted to a Canon SLR (40d) myself considered a Powershot as the Nikon equivalent does not have a real Nikon lense and the reviews have been patchy. We have taken a few shots with the SX10 and it more than meets expectations. The reach of the zoom is incredible. The colours are as accurate as my 40d and they are sharp--even the edges at the wide setting. No visible signs of chromatic aberrations and very little distortion. The camera is BIG compared with a typical point and shoot but this one has an incredibly good 20X zoom, a swivelling 230k pixel screen and the ability to shoot high quality movies. The built in image stabilizer allows you to take sharp pictures even at the 500mm setting which is crucial. I do not care for the Electronic Viewfinder and much prefer the view through a mirror reflex SLR but for the value you are getting for less than the price of a single decent SLR lens the fuzzy electronic viewfinder is no big deal. If you don't like it you can always use live view on the swivelling 230k pixel screen. Build quality is very good--not a tank like my metal 40d but again, value for money is outstanding. I give this camera my highest recommendation.

Brilliant versatility, but pictures a bit disappointing.
I've had this camera for around four months now, and my conclusions are that while it offers fantastic versatility, the pictures are a bit disappointing.

The 20X zoom and very effective image stablisation means that you can take everything from wide-angle interiors to 500mm (equivalent) hand-held shots, all without swapping a lens, which is great. It's quite slow between frames at full resolution though (it really doesn't feel like 1.4fps) which, combined with fairly slow autofocus, means it isn't a great action-capturing camera. The video and sound quality are superb, much better than any £100 solid-state camcorder, so it's like having an extra device thrown in (tip - use a free program such as Any Video Converter to compress the giant .MOV files down to MPEG AVIs).

The SX10 is heavy in a good way - it feels solid and well-made, and the controls (well, most of them) have a quality feel to them. The exception is the thumbwheel, which is terrible (sometimes turning it has an effect, sometimes not). Thumbwheel aside I think it's easy to use for a camera with so many options, but there is a learning curve and the lack of a printed manual is unforgiveable - how are you supposed to consult a PDF when you're miles from home? The hinged LCD screen is brilliant, great for low- and high- level shots or even self-portraits.

Everything has its good and bad points, and so far the SX10 is ahead. So what's the probem?
Basically the pictures it produces are good, but not *that* good. In a review of another camera, the writer says that with the rush to cram ever more megapixels onto sensors, pictures are actually getting worse. I think the SX10 may be an example of this, with the problem compounded by the rush to 20X zoom.

Focus can be a big problem on my SX10, especially in poor light and/or long zooms (and the low-res viewfinder and terrible thumbwheel make manual focus pretty much a non-option unless you do it purely by distance). Colours tend to be a bit flat, and it has a marked tendency to overexpose in bright conditions. Meanwhile low-light performance is average at best, with serious, blotchy noise at ISO 800 and above. Occasionally it can produce really great pictures, but most of the time it doesn't, whether on auto or manual.

My previous camera was an Olympus C3020 bridge from 2001. It was much more limited (3.1Mp, 3X zoom, ISO 400), but within those limits it produced consistently better pictures - sharper, better colours, overall a more natural look. I always felt that the Olympus made me seem a better photographer than I actually was, whereas with the Canon it's the other way round. For versatility though it's excellent value for money.

Additional item: I forgot to mention that the battery life is really excellent. A fully charged set of NiMHs seem to go on forever (certainly into the 300-400 stills range). Video doesn't seem to drain them too much either.

Good things come in small packages
I am not a camera expert, more of an enthusiastic amateur, and I am sure that much more qualified people will, given time, publish reviews for Canon's latest UltraZoom. However, reviews are pretty scarce at the moment, so I will share with you my first thoughts on the SX10.
The camera is neat, and sits comfortably in the hand. It is not as light as some, but exudes the impression of quality with a solid look and feel. For those who are familiar with Canon, the immediate impression is of familiar controls and menu options. For those new to the brand then I don't think that you will feel 'at sea'. I had read some comments that the instructions with the camera are not very good, but I would disagree. The quick start guide is mimimal but adequate, and the accompanying CD does include a manual that runs through all of the features, how to use them, and when you might want to use them. It is not a teach-in to photography, but certainly acts as a useful reminder.
And what a set of features this camera has. It has the very latest DIGIC 4 processor that is only just coming in for Canon's top end cameras, and this gives the SX10 a very comprehensive set of functions. For example, face detection is an absolute gem. If there is a face in your picture then the exposure and focus lock to it. The little focus square just follows the face around the picture. Even better, you can set the autotimer so that the cameras takes the shot when a face, or even an additional face, comes into frame. That is powerful processing.
Of course, all is lost if the optics and sensor are not up to the job. After a bit of experimenting, I am satisfied that Canon are onto a good thing with this camera. At full optical zoom, and heavily into the digital zone, you can take image stabilised shots that are crisp and without a trace of the chromatic aberrations that plague this type of picture. With a 28mm equivalent wide angle capability. this camera offers both ends of the spectrum.
So who wants this camera? I am sure that SLR enthusiasts will continue to state that the optics are compromised compared to interchangeable lenses. The point and shoot brigade will continue to buy tiny pocket cameras. However, for those who want to explore their photography then the SX10 might just be the right camera for you. And remember, it's a Canon so it is never going to be a bad choice.