A powerful perfection
Canon’s PowerShot SX240 HS keeps the
company’s continuous trend in making approachable compacts which are both
comfortable in palm and visual during experience.
Recently, we haven’t seen any PowerShot camera
that we didn’t like as of course SX230 is one of them. As expected, build
quality is excellent because the camera feels sturdy from top to bottom as well
as it is strong enough to stand against daily use. Besides, with 231g weight, this
compact won’t tire your hand.
Canon
PowerShot SX240 HS
Your visual aspect
It’s even vital that layout of controls and
buttons of the camera are appropriately operated because all controls are
comfortably in your right fingers’ reach. Pop-out flash is folded in the
camera’s left and ready to use if necessary.
Supplied modes include aperture priority (from
f3.5 to f8), shutter priority (from 15 seconds to 1/3200 seconds) and program priority.
While live view mode (direct focusing) and auto mode are user-friendly, easy
mode is most suitable for newbie. There are also portrait mode, fish-eye
effect, discreet (which mute distracting sounds) and video mode.
Regarding sensitivity, ISO configuration delivers
from 100 to 3200 while focus options include normal, manual and macro which comes
especially impressive when used to capture foreground and self-shooting with
flowers.
Open and wait
The reputation is given to 20x optical
zoom, giving 25-500mm focal length effectively. When accompanied with fast
autofocus, it appears interesting. With reference to image quality, 12.1MP
resolution produces similarly nice photos in both indoor low-lit condition and
outdoor bright lighting. This also applies on HD (1920x1080) video recording,
along with less power-consuming options: 1280x720 or 640x480. By what means, video
is accessed via separate button and, moreover, user can take advantage of full
zooming range while recording.
The
reputation is given to 20x optical zoom, giving 25-500mm focal length
effectively.
Conclusion
It’s remarkable that this camera’s 3inch
LCD screen plus excellent 460K image dots works very well in direct lighting. Overall,
SX240 HS is a winner which makes PowerShot series really proud. RRP is $340.
