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So I've been looking around for an "upgrade," since cameras do usually get better over the years. This Canon was attractive because of Canon's reputation and of course, the 28-560 lens (as opposed to 28-200 on the K-M), and the bigger articulated monitor. But the rest of it had to shine, too, to get me to trade off the obvious benefits of the K-M.
So I became the owner of a Canon SX10-IS. OK, one more reason for the trial venture into this camera is that I also have a Canon G10, an amazing photographic instrument. What I was hoping for, seeing that they're both Canon cameras, was that the SX would embody at least a semblance of the build quality and functionality of the G10.
Not happening. I immediately took some lots of photos at various settings and they were mostly very good. But the first turn-off was that much maligned control wheel. On the G10, it is a precise control, with precise detents at every function change. Silly me, I figured that they would use the same one on the SX. On the SX, the wheel is sloppy and has no detents at all. You turn the wheel and sometimes whatever function you are working in will change values, sometimes not. But always it changes the values arbitrarily and not to what you want. A little past or a little short, but rarely right on. I do a lot of HDR work and need to take 12-15 shots on a tripod, at 1-EV intervals. Not with this thing, unless you have the patience to play around with it at each interval, working it back and forth between every two shots until finally you get close. And then if you touch it a bit to hard you will press it in (it is also the four-way controller) and change some other major setting. Enormously frustrating. I'm pretty dextrous and have had lots of experience with many cameras and I love the same feature on the G10, but I have never seen a camera control this bad. Not even on a $69 pocket camera.
If my old K-M feels like a solid camera and the G10 feels like a precision instrument, the SX feels like some kid's cheap video game controller. The various buttons are not well defined, loose in their mounts, the electric zoom is like most cheap cameras where it zooms past where you want it and you have to toggle it back and forth to get it right. The flip-out monitor does not go out far enough to make it parallel to the back of the camera, where I need it to be for a lot of my work (and it is on any other camera I've used with an articulating monitor).
Anyway, my impression of this camera during my three-days of owning is were that it is a highly overrated consumer product that is viable only to those who will give up a lot for a long telephoto lens. It didn't expect it to compare in overall quality to the more expensive G10, but I was hoping it would be close, and in an SLR-like package that is more comfortable for me to handle than the boxy little G10. They got the SLR-like package down, but that's about it. Then the newer versions, the SX20 and 30 are getting worse across-the-board reviews, with the pros claiming that Canon is indeed playing games with consumers by touting more MPs and a longer lens, but in a camera whose image quality has actually deteriorated. Shame on you, Canon, for using your fine reputation to con the masses.
Too bad. I was all excited about that long lens, too. But I'm still looking for a better camera than my little K-M A200. And no, I will never go back to dSLRs. My days of schlepping 20 pounds of gear are over!








