Tempo: The camera is ideal for everyday use. She is quickly ready and solves thanks to a fast autofocus from jagged. Saving the data is also not an issue. Is a bit annoying that the camera takes a while to pack yourself again when you turn off (flash pure if you have photographed with a lot of telephoto, the whole lens has to be run again).
Appearance: Whether in the zoo or in the mountains - the thick telephoto is simply fun. In cities, in the garden or indoors, however it often takes a lot of wide angle. With 28mm the SX200 is here equipped somewhat meager, 24mm would be a significant gain was. In this respect I sometimes have the feeling that you would with a 24-200mm biserl bewesen better served yet, even if the camera has in this area with the usual distortions (converging or curved lines) to fight. A great gadget is the macro or the Super Macro, the Although you can not make professional recordings, but the grasshopper or the screw in the portrait was already considerable. Pictured is paying off, the lens is much greater than in the IXUS models. Regardless of the pixels is there already a lot more detail on the chip to.
Image Quality: The 12 mega pixels can be seen in the results. I'm fully satisfied. However, it shows the limits, such as the chromatic aberration. These are "color fringing", which one always sees very clearly, for example, when photographing a white flower against a dark background. The flowers edge is no longer sharp crack, but forms an additional bright color rim. BUT: Who usually prints his photos on 9x13 or 10x15 or subtract, it looks little. Quite properly I find all recordings that have received 400 to light sensitivity ISO, beyond the quality breaks but then very noticeable one. Compared to the old Nikon but I have the Canon attest that it nowhere near as brilliant comes from the colors here. It requires the most beautiful weather to catch properly crisp colors. For bright greens (spring meadow) Camera tends to contrast color exaggerations.
Programs: Let's face it: Who has a small compact camera will quickly what photography. Camera, take pictures, camera, ready. I am convinced that only a few programs for the whole portraits, landscapes etc. will use. I have many things to try around the camera and must say that the camera takes decent photos in the absolute base setting. However: once the sunlight decreases, this setting revealed some weaknesses, so you should deal definitely with the other programs and settings.
Video feature: Even if there is no zoom is in this setting - the camera takes really good videos. A nice fun, but the neat requires space on the card. As Vielfotografierer and videographer I do not go below 8 GB out of the house.
Lightning: Well. Can you really call lightning. But in a compact camera, one should not expect too much because in general. Nevertheless: For a camera in this price range a biserl may expect more. The flash comes in my experience about four feet wide, then it breaks radically together. Now if you so sitting with friends at the table and photographed in the round, it gets to the other end of the table pretty duster. Oh: that lightning always flipping out when you turn on the camera, is a biserl annoying, but the bottom line can get used to it well.
Conclusion: In everyday life, making use of the many, many features of this camera really rarely. If we restrict ourselves to a consideration of the basic features that you have with the SX200 a really good camera, which I would recommend with a clear conscience: quick, very neat pictures, good video. I have very long wondered back and forth, what camera it is "always there" be. So far has me in this regard, the SX200 is not disappointed. The camera falters whenever one increases his claim to the photos and squints toward hobby photography or image quality: distortion in wide angle, weak flash, color fringing, color weakness ... Since then helps it really just the handle digital SLR.
