Canon PowerShot D10 Waterproof Camera Review by CameraLabs With Rating 84/100

Average Camera Review Rating [6 reviews]
Currently selling at $270 (went down from $294 about 1.5 months ago), the Canon PowerShot D10 is the first adventure cameras from Canon. The camera is waterproof up to 10 meters / 33-feet deep, freeze proof from -10 degree / 14 degrees Fahrenheit, shockproof up to 1.22 meters / 4 feet, and is fully protected from dust. It also features a 12 megapixel sensor, 3x zoom lens with Optical Image Stabilization, 2.5 inch LCD screen, and new Smart AUTO, Blink Detection and FaceSelf-Timer modes. CameraLabs posted a review of this camera and gave the camera a rating of 84 out of 100. The camera is consistently the top #1 of the best selling waterproof cameras. Here is the conclusion from the review:

"The most distinctive thing about the D10 and one of it's strengths, is its design and apearance. Slightly bigger than most compacts, with rounded edges, matt-metallic-style surfaces and an enclosed lens housing it not only looks the part but is easy to use in the water. The quality of the images produced by the D10 is up to Canon's usual standards, and there's no quality premium to pay for choosing an underwater camera in preference to a general purpose compact. The zoom range, however, is something that fails to match up, not only to what's generally available in this price range, but by comparison with other waterproof cameras like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 / TS1 and the Olympus TOUGH 8000. The other disappointment is that the D10 doesn't offer an HD video recording mode If you can live with those two shortcomings in every other respect you won't be disapointed. The D10 is a joy to use both in and out of the water. It's fast ( ready to take pictures less than a second after the on/off button is pressed), responsive, and easy to use thanks to the clear design and layout of the physical controls and menus."

Canon Powershot D10 Camera Reviews Roundup

Pocket-lint: "Overall performance for still shooting is very good, with nice bold colours leaping out. Beautifully rich greens are perhaps offset by a tendency to over-saturate reds, but these things are easily adjusted post-shoot and it doesn't mar the images overall. High-contrast scenes are handled rather well, with a small amount of purple fringing around edges and the occasional blow-out of light tones in bright conditi..." - Sep 29 2009 More »
ePhotoZine: "After the disappointing results of the landscape image and all the noise on it, I'm keen to see the noise test results. From a photographers point of view, it doesn't look too good with mild colour inavading at the lowest ISO80 setting. This doesn't really change much until ISO400 where it becomes much more aggressive. ISO800 gives a result similar to an ISO3200 on other compacts with a similar sized sensor and by I..." - Aug 06 2009 More »
PhotoReview Australia: "Pictures taken with the test camera looked natural under most types of lighting but they appeared a little soft when enlarged. Boosting the sharpness with the adjustment provided in the Custom mode in the My Colours sub-menu corrected this deficiency. Examples are reproduced below. Contrast and saturation levels were modest and no compression artefacts were visible in test shots. We found the same dynamic range..." - Jul 24 2009 More »	N/A
CNET: "To test how rugged the D10 was, we subjected it to rigorous tests which we normally wouldn't try on a normal point-and-shoot. We dropped the D10 repeatedly from waist level and kicked it around on both carpeted and concrete surfaces. There were only minor dings and scratches on the shooter but it was still functional. For the duration that we had the shooter, it was ferried around in our bags without a protective ca..." - Jul 04 2009 More »
Engadget: "When you consider that this is an 'underwater camera,' which typically arrive with lackluster image quality as a trade off for their adeptness in the seas, we'd say this is easily one of the best we've seen. While out of water, we generated results that were on par, if not slightly better than our SD850 IS. Canon loaded this shooter up with some of its more advanced features (DIGIC 4 processor, optical image stabili..." - Jun 28 2009 More »	N/A
TechRadar: "The PowerShot D10 is Canon's first attempt at a waterproof compact, and straight away it looks different from the rest. With a chunky, bulbous design that certainly looks the part, but which may have been needed to accommodate a larger, more conventional lens. The zooming and Autofocus speeds are average to good, but the zoom range is disappointing, especially at this price. The picture quality is decent, thou..." - Jun 25 2009 More »
DigitalCameraReview: "There really isn't much to complain about with the D10. It's cheaper than the closest competitor from Olympus, it goes a little deeper than many of the other underwater cameras in its class, and it has the toughest wrist strap ever to grace a compact digital. I've been using Canons for more than 10 years and I've only been disappointed once. That's because Canon seems to know what consumers want and they deliver cam..." - Jun 15 2009 More »	N/A
PhotographyBLOG: "In many ways using the Canon PowerShot D10 is much like using any other Canon point-and-shoot compact. Ignore the rather obvious external design differences, and you'll find that the D10 offers the usual blend of intuitive handling, sensible design and largely dependable image quality. It shares a lot in common with its PowerShot and IXUS / Digital Elph relatives, making it easy to pick-up and use if you've ever own..." - May 14 2009 More »

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