Finally Done
Now that the camera is hitting North American shores, a review of the SX1 IS has come out from DPReview. This is a landmark camera as it uses Canon's own CMOS sensor for a PowerShot for the first time.
From DPR
“In the last few months there have been a number of new superzoom cameras announced; all feature fast capture times, more and more new features, and wider and wider zoom ranges. It is too early to say how the SX1 IS stands up against these new cameras, and it will be interesting to see how this market segment shapes up. As it stands the SX1 – whilst interesting – offers too little to justify its high price, and while I'm sure that as its price falls it will become more attractive to a wider range of potential buyers, at the moment it's impossible to see why you would buy one over the SX10 IS.”
It's not an overly positive review. Probably for good reason.
Read more at DPR: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canonsx1is/
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16 Comments
What really surprised me is that people (and DPR) say you can’t get any details back from blown out high lights. With CHDK on my old 710IS P&S the RAWs give me almost as many stops of recoverable detail as a DSLR. The apparent lack of CA-correction in DPP for the SX1 (so far), doesn’t exactly help.
on the other hand, it’s got 1080/30p and stereo sound, which somehow the 500D isn’t capable of.
(yawn …) I just preordered my sigma dp2. I wish canon or nikon would make such a unique camera like that.
Forget about what’s inside the camera. Just look at the thing! It’s the Super Ugly! This is one of the ugliest cameras I have ever seen.
Hej, G cams arn’t IXUS’, people who would buy G-MOS do care about image quality more than average compact users.
I’m even surprise they released these twin cams with just different sensors, it’s like a benchmark prooving CCD is better than CMOS for this pixel density.
Dude.
I can assure you that 85% of Canon customers (point & shooters and DSLR newbies) don’t even know what’s the difference between CCD and CMOS sensors, all they care about is owning a camera that take pictures, that’s it, simple.
(10% are gearheads and 5% are full time photographers, the last 15% knows the difference)