If you switch the camera on as the lens extends and the flash pops up.
Will you now take a picture as you press the shutter button the camera down until button halfway and the camera focuses. Here are a in the rear display or several smaller rectangles appear that characterize those areas of the image that has been selected the camera to focus. This automatic selection of the camera is almost always right. If you want to select the focus point for extraordinary motifs themselves, one is the automatic mode "in Program AE" to; now a central focus rectangle (size adjustable) appears on the display and you have the freedom to choose what you want to focus. Recognize the camera when focusing a face, so it is in focus. I made a test recording in which there were the branches of a bush at a distance of one meter in the foreground, at a distance of 5 meters but a person. The camera has properly focused on the person and ignore the branches during focusing.
In addition, the camera analyzes the motive for the exposure when you press the shutter-release button halfway automatically. Until now I was used to that it was set to compact cameras in addition to the standard automatic program and possibly manual controls various scene modes. The SX200IS looks for this but from itself. Based on subject distance, brightness, contrast, image content, etc. selects the Canon independently one of 18 available scene modes. In the upper right corner of the display an icon of the scene mode will be displayed for the camera has decided, for example, landscape scene, night scene, person, etc. The trick: If one approaches close to a subject, the camera automatically to Macro! And if you screw the camera on a tripod, the well recognized and they can now also long exposures in automatic mode.
The ability of the camera itself choose appropriate scene modes designated as Canon Scene Detection Technonogy ". To understand what I have going on exactly made a series of experimental recordings.
Photographed to a garden in the shade in 28mm wide angle setting, and then zooms in the telephoto position, the camera increases ISO sensitivity and shortened for the shutter speed. That's not stupid, because how the camera shake is white at telephoto bigger and is minimized by the shortened shutter speed.
Photographed one objects against the light so the camera will automatically switch to a fill-in flash, as long as the object is in range of the flash.
Aligns to the lens at people so this is recognized by the Canon. On camera screen rectangles are formed by the heads of the people now and the camera sets the recording data so that the faces are properly exposed.
Tricky is the flash mode when still a little background light, as that found at twilight or indoors, this is not sufficient to illuminate the main subject well. A normal camera would now 1/60 Sec. Set the shutter speed and drauflos flashes. This then has the result that the foreground is bright and the background dark. The SX200IS increases in such a case, the ISO value is 1/15 sec. Shutter speed and synchronizes the flash if possible on the second shutter curtain. This both background as well as foreground is correctly exposed - not bad.
Whatever the Popup flash is a remarkable thing. If you switch the camera so it automatically opens and invites to immediately, so that it is always ready for use (you can also turn off). It now deals in low light the camera at a subject so you can see behind the screen that will now be flashed. If you do not want, press the flash with the forefinger of his left hand just shut that goes light as a feather, now goes off the flash icon and the Canon for increased sensitivity, so you still get a properly exposed image. If you want to allow flashing again so you take your finger off the flash and comes back up. That's a pretty clever way the flash switched on or off, much more convenient than clicking through menus. If you turn off the camera automatically moves the flash back and he's gone.
The autofocus works continuously and also on persons or objects sharp moving toward the camera, the image stabilization of the camera prevents blurred photos very effective.
For all these functions is yet to made recording of DIGIC processor, the dark areas of the image using i-Contrast feature brightens, eliminating red eyes and otherwise depending on the recording program various image enhancements makes that I can not comprehend.
It is worth noting, incidentally, that gradually approach the camera when shooting against the light, for example if you photographed a person in the foreground against the position of the sun. As long as the subject contrast is too high, the Canon, the person in the foreground with the i-Contrast function (brightening dark parts of pictures) tries to reproduce properly. Is the difference in brightness but so large that the software is not enough lightening, it switches to the flash, even in bright sunshine. I have a person in backlight with the recording data ISO 160 - aperture 3.4 - 1/400 second shutter included and the camera flashed. Result: Both the person in the foreground and the background are properly exposed. Therefore, I advise all standard shooting situations from getting off or push down the flash.
The result of all these technical features of the Auto mode are tack-sharp and correctly exposed images. These are the so far best pictures I've ever shot with an automatic camera, and the first time I'm really pleased with the automatic function of a camera. My attempts were to come by manual adjustment to better images with little success.
Among the customer images I set different shots, made all freehand and the green Auto mode. They are all unedited and as it has the camera written to the SD card. Exception: 3 shots, pictures I2-I4. The camera brightens twilight shots on strong in these 3 pictures I have asked the brightness in Photoshop to minus 50% the original light mood to restore. In my paintings there was not me so much to show it to particularly beautiful "photographs, but the camera when working in extreme situations, such as ISO 3200, the maximum focal length to 48x digital zoom, etc. In the pictures you can also see how the camera best stops when the flash is popped up.
Anyway, this new generation of automatic camera in my eyes is a milestone in camera technology. To SX200IS I have read several reviews all of which are disappointing because is not received there on this new feature, you get the impression the testers have not really dealt with the device. Only a few reviewers here that seems to have noticed. So we read here, we would always achieve good to very good results in various conditions (Maik Zierold), it would always super sharp images with natural colors materialize (Matthias), there would be even in dimly lit rooms and in the twilight absolutely top results (p Blumenschein) and the reviewer hello "writes, this automatic was awesome and devotes an entire paragraph. These observations my Vorrezensenten I can confirm.
In a review focusing problems have come under scrutiny in telephoto and macro range. The focus range of the camera depends on the zoom position of the lens and is displayed on the back of the camera screen. For example, is the minimum focusing distance at 90mm focal length (KB) at one meter. If one tries now to 70cm sharp note then it does not work. The macro mode works only in 28mm lens position. Taking in the Macro Zoom lever what the reviewer has probably made, the camera can not focus.
In total there are the shooting modes Easy-automatic, automatic (green), Program AE, Shutter priority and time, Maue ller operation and various scene modes including macro (2-50cm) and Super Macro (0-2cm). While virtually no intervention at Easy-automatic, expand these as you move progressively towards manual operation. The manual controls are the Canon G10, the top model of the Canon compact class, barely after, you can, however, make no RAW images, there is no optical viewfinder and no hot shoe for mounting flash units.
It is noteworthy that the images at high ISO values hardly (I almost wrote: no ") show noise, and without aggressive smoothing of image details The SX200IS is better than any other camera in this discipline that I had been under the customer images.. I have the pictures F1 and F2 set, taken with ISO 3200. Such low noise I would have expected at a SLR camera for 2,000 euros, but not in a compact.
The usable focal length range from 28mm wide angle to telephoto 1344mm. It results from the mechanical total 48x 12x zoom from 28 to 336mm and that build on the digital zoom up. I am well aware that "some will frown here solely with the word digital zoom. I have since used to be wrinkled, not now. Just look at this, my clients images H1 to H3, which were freehand recorded with 1344 mm focal length and each picture itself a judgment. One might say that these photographs have a certain texture loss, ie a loss of image detail. That's right, but we are talking about a compact camera for around 300 Euro. Will someone for the journal Nature, "a produce photo gallery of African lion at the midday siesta, he will probably opt for a different camera setup which provides more details. That would be a reflex for several thousand euros plus a lens at twice the price of the camera. On one point, the small Canon would be superior even in this shooting situation, you can in the menu that is completely off the shutter sound when taking pictures as opposed to a SLR, which minimizes the risk of being eaten by Entdeckt- and the lions.
Canon shows that one can make with a fully charged battery 280 shots or playing back the images shot 5 hours. That could go. The purchase of a second battery, however, be worthwhile in any case, because it comes after a trip home and the battery is leerphotographiert, you have no power to look at the images. Or you can buy the available for this camera AC Adapter Kit ACK-DC30.
What I'm not so good at first clear result is the feel of the camera, for my crudeness, it is quite delicate because my briquette design of the Canon G10 like better. My wife is just disagree, she likes the SX200IS, because it is all so beautiful smooth and rounded and without bitching in the handbag and then slides out.
The SX200IS also makes video recordings in 3 selectable quality levels, including in HD quality. Maximum recording length 30 minutes at a time or 4 gigabytes. When recording is a 4x zoom is available. The videos you can watch on the camera monitor and the computer, or connecting the camera to a TV. That goes with a component cable (supplied) or via HDMI cable to a HD TV. For this you need not necessarily an original Canon cable (supplied with the camera is not included), a standard mini-HDMI to HDMI cable, it does. I recommend the 3-meter cable PureLink, Amazon product number asin B0011ECKCK. This cable is fairly lean and flexible, very expensive and high-quality cables are very thick and rigid and interfere with handling. Picture and sound of HD video recordings are very good for such a small camera and the built-in microphone is sensitive to wind noise. As a recording medium I use a Transcend 16GB SDHC Card Class 6 as fit over 5000 photos in the highest resolution on it or one and a half hours of HD movie. Movies are played from the card without stuttering or dropouts. Even photos are produced by the camera the way via HDMI cable to the TV, it looks very sends out. Image is unstable and flickering not a bit, is there like a 1. Also, as the recording monitor (!) You can use a TV when the camera is attached to it.
Unhappy the fast forward and rewind videos is solved in my opinion. One has to keep the Func / Set button is pressed, while the winding speed is getting faster. When you release the button will stop the video. Much better it would could be a video in the search for a particular passage with speed 2x, 5x, 10x can be run at a constant pace. Also a marker function for video would be helpful. Here Canon should make improvements with a software update.
This camera has my dealing with images (for the professionals among us: the workflow) changed thoroughly. So far I have vollphotographierte SD cards always transferred to the computer in order to then further processed there. In the larger circle the images were only considered if I have done my work to produce the images of a slide show on DVD. Now it's different. We take a trip to Salzburg and anything not nailed down is is photographed / filmed. Then we get home, plugs the camera to an HDTV and make us a bottle of red wine on. The slideshow besides films then play the SX200IS by itself, and the .. in HD quality
The supplied Canon software Camera Solution I have not installed, I'm always afraid zuzumüllen my system with too much software. My computer with Windows XP SP3 Canon recognizes the camera as soon as you have the device connected to the USB cable, you can now copy it to your computer or move to the normal Windows Explorer images from the camera. In the other direction that does not work the way it works, however, allegedly with the Canon software. On page 27 of the Software Starter Guide. If you connect the camera and display CameraWindow ..... (you can) transfer images to the memory card, "If that's so, you can have any photos that you have on his computer transferred to the SX200IS and thus play a slide show via HDMI cable on an HD TV - also not a bad feature.
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Conclusion: The domain of this camera are automatic photos in exceptional quality even under difficult lighting conditions, coupled with the ability to take HD video. This makes it the perfect all tour and travel camera for me. She is my buy recommendation for all those who enjoy perfect pictures have to want without worrying about how they come about. We then discovered the pictures shooting the photography as a hobby, so the study of the various possibilities of the manual recording control is an optional, but not a must.
I am with the Canon anyway very satisfied. Sure there are more cameras which many better, but probably no so much as good as can the SX200IS.
