Good camera with a lot of leeway

Good camera with a lot of leeway

Canon PowerShot SX40 HS Digital Camera (12MP, 35x opt. Zoom, 6.9 cm (2.7 inch) display, image stabilized) (Electronics)

Customer Review

After I had previously worked with a SLR camera with slide film and had contented myself since the advent of electronic only with small compact devices, I wanted to get away from the snapping and make my pictures again more without having to spend too much money now.

Rough conditions were a big zoom range, a viewfinder, a flash contact and the ability to affect everything again, ie aperture, shutter speed, etc.
Everything that meets this camera, and more.

The zoom range has no equal. And the quality of the lens is also true. I made very nice telephoto shots. Surely there are better individual lenses for this purpose. But you have to respect the proportionality test. This camera has a decent size, so I always take with. A large photographic equipment I did not want to lug around with me constantly. At the maximum zoom I then had rather hazy surroundings or my (un) steady hand to fight and not with errors in lens. Another practical feature is that you can go back the push-button to locate the subject if it has escaped from sight.

The viewfinder is good, even in bright ambient light, so that the days of long outstretched arms photographing at and almost no longer visible image on the viewing screen in bright sunlight is over. The resolution of the viewfinder is naturally limited. But to set and judging the image section is sufficient. Not to mention the Dieoptrieneinstellung for eyeglass wearers. A feature that I need urgently.

Something I've learned to be very practical, is the built-in screen, which you can virtually move in all directions. When self-portrait can turn it so that you can see in the lens as well as on the screen simultaneously. You have to appreciate no longer what will probably be to see everything on the screen. And if you shoot over heads, you can change it at an angle so that the image is also good at judging while fotogrfiert with outstretched arms upward. This has served me well and brought special pictures. Because you do not always stand in the front row.

Who has used at times corresponding Lichverhältnissen an external flash and compared the result with that of the built-in flash, which I need to tell you anything more about the usefulness of a flash shoe. And it works with this camera not only with the matching system flash by Canon, but also with my old but good computer flash from the past. Whose values ​​are of course then not automatically transferred from the camera, but it also works on the old fashioned way distinguished: Fixed shutter speed, fixed focal length and appropriate setting on the computer of the flash.
The eingebauet lightning is actually sufficient for standard recordings. Halt not as bright as an external flash, and bounce flash is not already.

And as we come to the point of manual operation, which has helped me in so flash. This can be completely here. Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, or both manually. which is always necessary when you want special effects or the automatic but not assess the situation properly.
The automatic itself is quite good. Very often you can rely on you and gets the image the way you want it. For snapshots, which is very convenient.
I recommend only that you can not by pressing the shutter button directly. Since it may be that the settings are not correct. So, first press the first stage where the adjustment is performed and then trigger. This one creates even in hectic situations.

What else is there?
The lens does not close by itself, but you have a lens cap. This is perfectly ok, especially since the lens cap has a small volume, which can be attached to the camera. So you do not lose the cap.
The battery lasts a long time. I was surprised how many photos I was able to make a charge. That's very neat.

So, I'm very happy with the camera and would recommend them to people who want to shoot creatively, without wanting to spend too much money.

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