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Hello everyone, Hope all is well. I am looking for a digital camera to replace my Canon PowerShot SX120 IS. I have repaired it myself and brought it back from the dead twice over and now I need to move on. So to my requirements.
I am looking at spending at least £100/$161 but no more than £155/$251. So far I've found two possible candidates and they are the Canon PowerShot SX150 IS and the SX160 IS. Does anyone have any thoughts on those two and any others that might fit the bill? Please reply soon, Adiman423 in London, UK |
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the SX260HS is pretty good review http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-powershot-sx260-hs I have the SX230 HS that I recently purchased and the picture quality is great, especially when you install CHDK on the camera http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Downloads When you enable camera raw, you get significantly more color and luminance info in the image, allowing for significantly more shadow and highlight detail |
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while not 100% related, I wanted to post why you may want to consider enabling camera raw in your current camera, or making sure that your next camera will allow you to unlock camera raw in your price range, that will have to be done using firmware hacks such as CHDK which are simple to do and will significantly improve your images RAW images have a lot more detail and color information and thus allow you to correct for underexposed areas and also for some blown highlights/ overexposed areas. it also allows you to to do more extensive edits without having any clipping. I recorded a video demonstrating what you can do on a point and shoot with RAW. The SX230HS takes 10 bit raw images while a DSLR can take 14-16 bit RAW images. (the jpeg are compressed 8bit images) Video link: http://youtu.be/VGL7UP2FD-I With how cheap storage is, you will be hard pressed to find any real reason to not use RAW, sure they take more space, but the quality they offer is more than worth it. |
the sx150 and 160have many complaints about the battery life and the flash cycle time and video quality and performance. Those issues are largely fixed in the 200 series along with a better lens with less fringing and better edge sharpness.
They also move to CMOS sensors which means better low light performance and better long exposure performance. With a CCD camera, parts of the sensor that handle the higher amount of power needed, will glow and that light is picked up by the sensor when you do long exposures, this causes bright/ washed out spots and reduced overall contrast that can never be fully corrected for. (though with the move CMOS, you get a video issue called rolling shutter where things may get slightly skewed if you pan the camera very quickly (while it is only present while panning and newer cameras do a good job in reducing it significantly, it is still present if you look closely
(almost all new cameras use CMOS sensors)