Monday, February 16, 2009

The SX1

Canon brings the Powershot SX1 IS to the US market at an MSRP of $599.
There will also be a firmware update enabling RAW capture. Existing SX1 IS owners will also be able to download the Digital Photo Professional software to edit white balance, exposure compensation and sharpness of their RAW files before converting them to JPEG.


Well, Gordon finished his review today and it is the most comprehensive review on the SX1so far.

He confirmed the sub par viewfinder but if that is not a too big issue, then the SX1 is a nice camera.


Canon PowerShot SX1 IS review from Gordon Laing on Vimeo.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

is it focused now?

As I mentioned in November already, the viewfinder from the SX1 is crap.

After reading through all reviews from the SX10 and SX1 nearly nobody talked about the way the viewfinder effects the manual focusing. The least professional (sorry guys compared to a real camera review site) reviews from Trusted Reviews mentioned exactly this problem.

"The SX1 also has an electronic viewfinder, but herein lies a small mystery. The official specification of the SX10 states that it has a 235k resolution EVF, but as I mentioned in my review it appears to be very coarse, with the dots plainly visible, and far too low-res for manual focusing. The same is unfortunately true of the viewfinder on the SX1, but the published specification both on Canon’s website and in the camera manual state that the resolution is only 148k dots, which would make more sense, and makes me think that the resolution stated in the SX10’s specification is a misprint."

Well I liked the viewfinder from the SX10 and it is a huge improvement to the viewfinder from the S1 to S5. 
 
This is not very accurate, but should give you an idea what a double in pixel count does at shooting 10 Mp pictures.