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Pocket Megazoom Canon PowerShot SX120 IS camera

Canon Powershot SX120 is a compact and pocket sized digital camera with effective resolution of 10M pixels using 1 by 2.5 inches CCD sensor. It is an easy to use camera that produces pictures of high quality with 10x of optical zoom and supports 35mm film equivalent focal range of 36 to 360mm, aperture of F2.8 to F4.3 and ISO sensitivity range of 80 to 1600.

SX120 is beautifully designed cute camera with many features and reasonable power. It has both optical and digital image stabilization and 4x of digital zoom capability. This coupled with its motion detection mechanism reduces image blur significantly. Zoom is flexible enough to capture varieties with sharp outputs and settings through its manual and auto controls are convenient.

Canon Powershot can capture both VGA movies and 320x240 video with sound at 30 frames per seconds with a long play feature. Image sizes that can be shot vary from 320x240 to as high as 3648x2736. Camera has powerful DIGIC 4 processor that ensures natural color output and fast response time under all kinds of light conditions. There is AF lock, AF assist lamp and support for Face detection, Normal AF, Manual focus, Single, 1-point and continuous Auto Focus modes.

This camera from Canon uses 3 inches TFT LCD screen with 230K pixels, five levels of brightness control and wide angle of viewing that is good for both shooting and viewing the scenes. There are many good features in camera like Smart Auto, Face Select and Track, Easy Mode for novice with Scene detection and full fledged control for professional photography like aperture and shutter priority settings. Camera can select variables out of 18 scene options, based on brightness, color and distance of scene and chosen mode is virtually visible on screen so that user can concentrate on shooting.

Canon SX120 is made of plastics exterior in black color, has weight of 245g and is powered by two alkaline or NiMH AA batteries that can shoot up to 130 shots in a single charge. There is USB 2.0 and AV out interface support and camera is supplied with 128MB card with storage support for SD, MMC and SDHC. SX120 has indoor setting mode, dedicated children mode, Red eye correction, Face self timer for group shots and Face detection technology that can adjust settings to recognize 35 faces of scenes to make everyone look better.

SX120 shoots in 2.5 seconds but has some performance issues. It is also bit noisy at ISO 400 and above. Overall, available at price of about $250, Canon Powershot SX120 is a small size evolutionary camera that may lack in features in comparison with its competitors but definitely beats them in image quality.

Sarit
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:02:38 +0000

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