Canon 14.1MP PowerShot SX150 IS 12x Zoom Review by CNET US With Rating 3/5
2012-03-13 01:54 | SourceAverage Camera Review Rating [7 reviews]
This camera is currently ranked at #7 of the top camera sales ranking in US.
On August 23 2011, Canon announced the PowerShot SX150 IS 12x SuperZoom camera. Boasting a 14.1 Megapixels sensor and 12x optical zoom with 28mm wide-angle lens, the Canon SX150 also offers a 4-stop optical Image Stabilizer with brand new Intelligent IS technology. The SX150 can support 720p HD video recording, Smart AUTO, a discreet shooting mode, and a 3-inch LCD screen. It also supports manual-shooting capabilities, such as aperture priority and shutter priority for optimal artistic control. Available in black and red, the PowerShot SX150 IS Digital camera is listed for retail at $249.99. It's currently selling at around $165. Here's the summary of review by CNET US, giving the camera a rating of 3 out of 5:
This camera is currently ranked at #7 of the top camera sales ranking in US.
On August 23 2011, Canon announced the PowerShot SX150 IS 12x SuperZoom camera. Boasting a 14.1 Megapixels sensor and 12x optical zoom with 28mm wide-angle lens, the Canon SX150 also offers a 4-stop optical Image Stabilizer with brand new Intelligent IS technology. The SX150 can support 720p HD video recording, Smart AUTO, a discreet shooting mode, and a 3-inch LCD screen. It also supports manual-shooting capabilities, such as aperture priority and shutter priority for optimal artistic control. Available in black and red, the PowerShot SX150 IS Digital camera is listed for retail at $249.99. It's currently selling at around $165. Here's the summary of review by CNET US, giving the camera a rating of 3 out of 5:"No good really comes from the increased resolution; it seems you just get more image noise. That said, it still takes very good photos. Like most compact cameras in its class, the SX150 is at its best below ISO 200. At ISO 400 there's a noticeable increase in noise and softness from noise reduction. Photos at higher ISOs are usable for smaller prints and the Web as long as you don't enlarge and heavily crop them. The increased noise at ISO 1600 does cause some faint yellow blotching, though. Colors produced by the SX130 are generally excellent--bright, vivid, and fairly accurate in our lab tests. They lose some saturation at ISO 800 and above, but not nearly as much as I've seen from competing cameras. Exposure and white balance are very good. For video quality, the SX130 is on par with an HD pocket video camera or smartphone. It's not stellar and won't replace a full-size camcorder, but video is certainly good enough for Web use or casual viewing on an HDTV. You do get use of the optical zoom while recording and the lens movement is very quiet so it barely gets picked up by the stereo mic. You will hear it in quieter scenes, though.
The SX150 offers a wide variety of shooting options, giving you plenty to experiment with. Among the many modes are shutter-priority, aperture-priority, and manual options. Available apertures are f3.4, f4.0, f4.5, f5.0, f5.6, f6.3, f7.1, and f8.0. Availability is dependent on zoom position, though you do get the full range at the wide end. Shutter speeds go from 15 seconds down to 1/2,500 second, which is a better range than most cameras in this class offer. There are also several photo effect options with presets for subject and skin tone color as well as individual adjustments for contrast, sharpness, saturation, red, green, blue, and skin tone. If that's not enough, Canon also includes its Color Swap (for example, change all blue to yellow) and Color Accent (you can pick one highlight color and make everything else monochrome) features. These are available for photos and movies, too. The Canon PowerShot SX150 IS is a bit of a disappearing breed: a compact megazoom that uses AA-size batteries and has semimanual and manual shooting modes. It's fairly affordable, too, and does get you very good photo quality. Its shooting performance is miserable, though, so I'd only recommend it for patient photographers shooting landscapes and similarly stationary subjects."
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Canon Powershot SX150 IS Camera Reviews Roundup
| Imaging Resource: "The PowerShot SX150 IS produced good overall color, with only slight oversaturation in bright reds and blues, while strong yellows were actually muted somewhat. Hue is off slightly for colors like yellow, orange and cyan, but not more than average. Dark skin tones are close to accurate, as are lighter skin tones. Overall, very good performance. Manual white balance handled our incandescent lighting best overall here..." - May 20 2012 More » | |
| dpreview: "The SX150 is capable of taking really nice pictures under the right conditions (this camera likes good light). Colors are natural but can be 'punched up' using one of the camera's color effects modes and exposures are generally well-balanced with the exception of bright highlights which can sometimes be clipped. Colored fringing around high-contrast scene elements is impressively low, although it's not totally absen..." - May 17 2012 More » | |
| Digital Camera Review: "Colors (Canon's default color interpolation) are bright and hue accurate, but visibly over-saturated. Reds are warmer than they are in real life, blues are a bit too bright, and greens/yellows are more vibrant than those seen by the naked eye. Most casual shooters won't consider these minor color intensity variations as faults. Although there is a slight tendency toward overexposure - in bright outdoor light the SX1..." - Jan 28 2012 More » | |
| Photography BLOG: "The Canon PowerShot SX150 IS is very much a minor upgrade of last year's SX130 model, principally offering 2 additional megapixels, an improved image stabilisation system, a range of creative filters and a handy one-touch movie record button. Otherwise it's virtually identical to its capable predecessor, with an attractive price-tag but also a rather big and chunky design that's looking more and more out-dated as ti..." - Dec 08 2011 More » |
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