Canon Ixus 60
(In the US it is called Canon PowerShot SD600)
It is beautiful and really small, even smaller than my beloved Fuji F10, and has the same image quality. Pin sharp lens, low grain, six megapixels.
Actually: only five years ago, a revolutionary camera was the Canon D30. For the first time, three megapixels became available for a somewhat affordable price: $3,000! Six years ago that would have cost you something like three times as much.
Today I can buy a pocket camera with twice the resolution for $300! It staggers the mind.
Update: I just tested the low-light capability: another positive surprise. 200 ISO is practically the same quality as 100 ISO, 400 ISO is very good, and even 800 ISO is usable, which is highly unusual on such a compact camera. On my much larger Nikon 8400, even ISO 200 is very grainy. Big cudos to Canon for this development. (This was the raison d'etre of the Fuji F10, but it seems they are getting competition now.)
2 comments:
Nice. There is a rumour that Canon's ISO 100 is equivalent to other manufacturer's ISO 200, and so on. Is that true with this Ixus, compared to F10?
How is the display? has it the same antireflective coating that makes it usable even in sunlight, like older ixus models?
I still have the first Digital Ixus model, S100 :)
"Nice. There is a rumour that Canon's ISO 100 is equivalent to other manufacturer's ISO 200, and so on. Is that true with this Ixus, compared to F10?"
Oh no.
In fact the newer F30 is better than the (smaller) Ixus.
"How is the display? has it the same antireflective coating that makes it usable even in sunlight, like older ixus models?"
I don't know, but it worked fine for me with the sun coming and going, in town.
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