Отзывы о Цифровой Фотоаппарат Canon PowerShot SX160 IS

We purchased this camera for our business in lieu of toting our nicer camera for quick property photos. Camera takes a great picture and does video. We haven't tested the video just yet. Camera handles dim situations relatively well, not without moderate pixelation, but I am nonetheless impressed.

I have not deciphered how to easily remove mass photos from the camera on my Macintosh. Camera seems to be one-by-one delete. I guess I could drop and dump when the camera is on my desktop downloading photos.

Still playing around with the camera with time I don't have currently to discover all the cool features. Downloading is a snap, and similar to most cameras. I also appreciated the use of a SD memory card. You can buy them anywhere. Love the orange color! Exactly what we wanted.

Fits well in our hands and pockets (a must for us). We didn't want a large camera. For the price I wouldn't be devastated to take this camera as a loss and I have been nothing but pleased to this point with this great little camera. Perfect for our needs of real estate. Clean crisp photo and not an overbearing flash. No big "blow-outs" of white to discriminate details, but again early on with the camera. Still takes a great well-sized photo and love it. I will take it also on personal trips too.

Only thing I am not crazy about are the markings of how to "hit enter or accept" on the camera. It doesn't come naturally with the icons and markings Canon chose. Just something to get used to and not second nature for me yet. Still LOVE this camera.

update 9/18/09: Camera is still working great. Lapse between photos for quick shots gets annoying after awhile, but it does the job and takes a decent photo. We use the video portion of camera still as well. This camera has been good to us overall for our quick business camera. There are many more fine tuning features we could be using as well to even further enhance the quality of our photos that I am still discovering. I love Canon cameras. Great for the price is still my feeling. (plus it's orange! LOL) ... please note I am not a professional, but I do take a decent photo. ;-)

update: 6/10: The camera has now stopped focusing and is taking horrible photos. It's done. LAME! LAME! Two years for a point shoot's survival? That's a joke. We took such kind care of this camera. Even if it were an easy fix, I wouldn't put another dime into it. Since my 9/09 review it's been downhill and shutter time was taking longer and longer to rip off shots. I grew a strong hatred of this "easy" camera. I would rather use my Digi Rebel thank you than this hunk of junk. ~ All the more reason to do review revises people. :-) Your love has to be evaluated on the long-term.

I'll leave the detailed feature reviews for those who have the time to write for free, but this camera is a great value for the money. It has aperture priority and shutter speed priority settings, as well as a host of scene modes that shift the white balance to the lighting for various scenes. There's even an aquarium mode, which I've tested and found to be very useful.

There are so many features that one might feel overwhelmed, but you can start taking pictures immediately with the easy mode or the auto mode and let the camera take care of things for you. You can disable flash in all modes, so if you are using easy mode in a museum where you aren't permitted to take flash pictures, you can turn it off.

Battery life is much better than the last camera I had (a Fuji Finepix 1300), and it takes 1/2 as many batteries (2 versus 4) also. I use the Duracell 2650 ma/hr rechargeable NiMH batteries, the highest capacity I could find locally, and keep 2 spares freshly charged. I haven't tried this camera on alkaline batteries but I would expect shorter battery life, though probably better than in most cameras.

Zoom works well. It stops at 4x optical when you zoom but it can go further with digital zoom (with some picture degradation, of course), up to 16x. I like the fact that it stops you from going beyond the maximum optical zoom before you enter the digital zoom, and beyond 4x it changes the magnification factor number to blue characters, so 5.5x would be blue, to warn you that you are beyond the optical zoom's capabilities. It's easy to mute the camera when you turn it on if you need to be quiet when you take a snapshot, as in some nature photography. You just have to hold one button on while you turn the camera on and it puts it in mute mode so the camera doesn't beep every time you push a button to change some setting.

Great camera, great price at $109, and you can find it in the Amazon Marketplace for about $10 less right now from Adorama Camera as a refurbished unit if you don't mind that. I would have bought one of those refurbs from them but at the time there were none for sale below $109 anywhere else.

If you need more features and greater zoom range, consider the 10x model, but this one got the greatest overall reviews everywhere (not just on Amazon) and that was a major decider for me.

Power supply does what it is supposed to do. It was a lot cheaper than what Canon was charging. It's a power adapter, that shouldn't cost much. Yes there can be good one and bad one. So far this one works fine.

I bought this camera in May of 2008 because I had an old (26 yrs) 35mm Canon that I loved and it always took great photos. After about 6 months, the camera started to fail to focus at random. The lens jammed in September '08 and would not retract. It gave me a reset message. I took it to the photo supply dealer that sold it to me and the owner replaced the batteries which made no difference. He finally bumped the camera on his hand and the lens retracted. By November of '08, the camera would not focus at all and he sent it off for it's first repair which took about 3 weeks. The repair only had a 90 day warranty by Canon. In February, the camera begain to stop focusing again but I thought it was lighting/white balance at the car show where it was being used. By the end of march (more than 90 days later) it stopped focusing again. Canon made a "good will repair" with no warranty. Now, four months later (July) it has started to randomly fail to focus again and the lens rattles when focusing or zooming. I paid $399.00 for the camera. If I had paid the $125.00 they originally quoted me for the second repair I would have $524.00 invested in a camera that now would (or soon will be) useless and only lasted 1 year and 2 months of very light use. I will not buy another Canon product for a very, very, very long time if ever.

UPDATE October 15, 2009- The lens jammed again and will not retract just after it stopped focusing again. Canon has said that they will only repair it if I pay for the repair. This is the fourth time in under 2 years that the camera has malfunctioned. This is my last Canon camera... no question about it. It might make a decent paper weight.

I have been looking forward to the "S6 IS" coming out this year (after skipping out on the S3 and S5), and now it's out, with the name "SX10 IS". I think Canon wanted to show that this camera is a huge leap forward from the S5 IS, and it certainly is given the new specs.

Compared to the S2 through S5, the zoom is now 20x optical starting at 28mm instead of 12x starting at 35mm (much wider shots), as well as a 10MP sensor, up from 5-8MP, and Digic IV (instead of Digic II and III) for improved shots.

I tried out the demo model in the store, and some differences I noticed were:
- The camera is much taller and deeper to accommodate the huge lens, and does not feel as good in my hands as even the S5
- The body of the camera is very smooth compared to previous models, but it feels bulky compared to the S5
- The button layout is COMPLETELY different, there are no buttons on the front of the camera, MF and macro buttons are located in the back, you now press a button to turn the camera on and off (instead of turning a jog dial), the 4-way directional pad has been replaced with a clickable scroll wheel, also to enter playback mode you must press a button instead. I do not like this layout, but it does offer the advantage of being able to enter macro and MF mode using your right hand only.
- After taking a shot, you can view very detailed information about the shot (ISO, aperture, histogram, etc) which is a nice add-on
- The lens is marked on the top with approximate zoom levels and focal lengths
- Unlike the S5, the battery compartment is again separated from the SD-card slot, which is good
- The picture quality is better, thanks to improved high-ISO quality, so the pictures come out less blurry than on the S5. The sharpness and auto-focus at 20x is very good, with no visible distortion at any zoom level

I did not see the intervalometer function in the menu, so I assume it is still gone as it was removed in the S5, also no RAW support, and there is no custom firmware available for the SX10 (since it is Digic IV), look for that in the future. Movies are in .MOV format instead of .AVI, still 480p, and still one of the best "camcorders" around.

The MSRP is also $100 lower than the S5 was at launch, making this a terrific bargain for a 20x superzoom with Canon's great quality. My only concerns are with the size of the camera and the button layout. However, the huge zoom lens makes up for it, and the fact is it is still much smaller and lighter than a D-SLR plus wide-angle and telephoto lens. Overall, you can't go wrong with this camera, the quality is superb.

This camera takes nice photos...but I don't think any better than my small sony or Kodak camera. It is a little bit of a hassel to have to lift the flash but once you get used to the camera you pretty much remember to do that on your own before you try to take a photo. I mostly wanted this camera for the feature where I can take a still shot while taking a video...but then the video has a stop in the middle of it where I snapped the still shot. This was not exactly what I was hoping for.

You don't have to read the manual to use this camera for the first time, just remove it from the box, set on auto, point it at something and press the button. The photos this camera produces are awesome! I purchased this camera last July and am still learning new things about it.

Update July 2013

Can't believe I've owned this camera for four years. It has never let me down. I've been on numerous vacations with family. On one trip I took over 800 photos!

The only drawback is its weight! I'm not getting any younger and scrambling over rocks up and down back trails with this hanging around my neck - well bottom line is, I'm looking for a light weight pocket camera.

Any suggestions?

excellent service quick response works great with my camera canon powershot sx-20 which is a bit of a battery hog. it came with adapters for other countries a plus because i travel alot
never failed to do exactely what it was supposed to do

Our old 5mp Kodak died and we needed a replacement. Since I do a lot of hiking I needed a camera with a viewfinder (for shots in bright sunlight) while my wife just wanted something small and easy to use. The 2.5" screen is just large enough to satisfy her needs while the viewfinder (although it only renders 78% of the picture) allows me to frame shots in the bright outdoors. Its versatile with a program mode that gives you some measure of control (not bad for a camera at this level) but has an adaquate auto mode. Picture quality is not outstanding but more than adequate. Indoor pictures can be tricky on automatic mode where it has a tendency to want to use a higher ISO than it should. Forcing an ISO of 200 or less on the Program mode helps a lot. Buttons and menu are fairly easy to get used to. At 4x it has a slightly longer zoom than many others in its class. It feels good in the hand. Consumer Reports liked it better than the 12 MP successor, the A1100. All in all its a very nice under $200 camera.

Though I'm a Canon fanatic, it bugs me they don't provide a lens cap that is easy to manipulate, and has a tether cord! This replacement cap fulfills the requirements. It takes some squinting to locate the small hole for the tether, but the cord provided is just the right length to secure to the camera strap.What a relief to find a cap that will stick with me!

This is one hell of a camera from Canon a must buy if your fed up with lugging SLR equipment about but want the same quality of shots for a lot less bother.

Auto and full manual control is incorporated into this camera with all sorts of extra features that is at your fingertips for any shot that you want to take and it is a breeze to operate.

The moment you pick this camera up out of its box you can see and feel the quality your money as paid for and this is also reflected in the quality of the pictures too.

From flash to low light shots this camera never fails to please its bang on with exposure and colour balance producing brilliant shots time after time with fantastic pixel quality to boot.

Macro shots are breath taking in quality showing detail that I have never experienced before with some of the other digitals I have used, so if Macro is your game you are not going to get much better than the 980 at this moment in time at least not in the other compact range that's for sure.

To sum up you get what you pay for in life and with the Canon 980is YOU HAVE , its big bucks for a big performer and this is a camera that is going to be with you for a very long time.

Canon have produced a camera here that is second to none and if the only thing you can knock it on is the video side of it then you're in the wrong game and a compact HD recorder is what you really need.

You won't go wrong with this camera no matter what the subject form from Macro, Portrait, Landscape you name it this camera will do it and do it damned well and it's in silver or black too so what more can you ask for? I give it 20 out of 10 because giving just 10/10 would not be doing it justice.

Thank you Canon for a great product and for listening for once to what the customer wants in their compacts and doing something about it.

A search revealed the item was suitable for my camera, however it was not.
They made good for it, but I had to pay for return shipping. I'd be a
happier camper if they gave me the benefit of the doubt and picked up the
shipping. The principle should revolve around the customer's satisfaction.

My Canon Powershot digital camera rules. I bought the SX110 IS and it works great for action shots, and taking pictures of active kids (my nieces) and pets (our dog). It's a little on the bulky side, but it's a wonderful camera.

This is not at all what is pictured ! They sent 2 separate pieces, one cap and one 'cap keeper' which is a string with a little sticky nub on the end. If I wanted that I would have ordered that. NOT very happy about the misleading picture

I would not recommend this camera. It is very heavy and the image quality is not very good. However, the biggest problem is that, from the beginning, all of my photos have a dark smudge in the center top. I returned the camera for repair under warranty; it was returned to me with the same problem. I am about to return it for the second time, but I am not optimistic that Canon will resolve the issue.

I bought the camera because of its features, not its portability. It is as described bulky for a point-and-shoot. The multitude of preset exposure options (snow, night scenes, etc.) are good - but I rarely use them. I rely mostly on the Program, Aperture priority, and Shutter priority modes. Manual mode is a bit cumbersome requiring one to toggle between shutter and aperture settings. The display is stunning and the display modes which include viewing the histogram are excellent. Picture quality is excellent and the image stabilization works as well as expected. The ability to shoot at close to 4 fps (in some modes) is a real nice feature for a point-and-shoot. I had not planned to get much use out of the video features but am finding this to be a real nice capability.

My primary reasons for buying were size (yes its big, but still smaller than SLRs and with many of the same features), use of AA batteries (which adds to its size, but allows for being able to slip in a set of fresh batteries just about anywhere), and the ability to capture RAW (hence why I don't rely on the preset options). And, oh yes, the zoom. The massive zoom is fantastic.

The lens cap design could do with a bit of an improvement. There is no tether and due to my clumsiness I've inadvertently knocked it off a couple times. The hood is a nice design.

I purchased this camera for my daughter. She loved the quality of pictures she got from it. However, in three weeks time she got the dreaded "lens error" message and the lens wouldn't completely retract. We sent it in for warranty service. After a week's wait was was back as good as new. Within a couple of weeks, it was back to a lens error status. Not wanting her to be without a camera again we went to a local Radio Shack and got her a Nikon Coolpix. It's OK but doesn't produce the quality of pictures she wants. This is our 4th canon and the first one we've had trouble with. I would like to buy her an ELPH but am not really trusting canon right now

I love this housing. It allows you to access pretty much every feature from the outside and the diffuser is great at spreading the light of the flash. As for longevity, I've been using it for dive trips for the past 3 years or so and it has held up great. I just make sure to keep the O-ring clean and lubricated. It has definitely been worth the money to me.

What a great buy, extremely fast shipping, and great communication with the seller. That's why I keep comming back to amazon. the camera was every thing the seller said it was, and more. he was right, I love it.........

Pros and Cons...
it worked GREAT on our scuba dives to 40 feet but you HAVE to use the little plastic flash diffuser underwater if you don't want the dreaded "black shadow" in the bottom corner of every pic. It came loose for a few pics and that shadow appeared (it attaches with a little cord so it didn't float away). Took a few minutes to find the "underwater" setting on our camera but once we did, the pics were even better. Just look for the fish symbol when you're scrolling thru your cameras settings. Make sure to follow all the instructions (we did) and had no problems. Make sure to use the wrist strap so it doesn't float to the top when you're diving. We did NOT buy the optional weight. We figured it would be much easier to find it at the surface than on the bottom of the ocean (with the weight) if the wrist strap came lose.

Only 2 minor cons...
1. the cost really is ridiculous! You can buy a decent underwater camera for the same price and then you don't have the 'risk' of a leak ruining your regular camera.
2. now our camera makes a slight 'grainy' sound every time we turn it on and the lens comes out and during zoom. It has not affected the picture quality and camera still works fine other than this. We have NO idea why this happens since there's nothing visually wrong with the camera but it occurred after we used the underwater case the first time and is STILL making that sound every time we use it (normal out-of-water use).

There is a lot to love about the Canon PowerShot SX1 IS. Being able to take photographs or shoot 1080p video (get a big memory card for video!) is the main attraction for this camera, and this camera delivers. The 20x zoom lens is FANTASTIC. Zooming in and out is painless, quick, and silent. You'll love the freedom this gives you. I love that this camera takes 4 AA batteries. These kind of batteries are available everywhere so you don't have to worry about running out of power like you do in cameras with a proprietary battery pack. The video screen on this camera is relatively big, bright, and clear.

But the camera is not without a few problems. Coming from a Canon D-SLR, the image quality leaves a little to be desired. At 100% magnification, the images are a little noisy. However, most people don't look at pictures at this zoom-level, and at normal print sizes, the images are sharp and noise is not really noticeable in real-world shooting. I personally don't like the neck strap. Maybe I just need to wear it in, but at its current stiffness, it sometimes gets in the way of the camera controls. The video looks a little wobbly sometimes due to the design of CMOS sensors (Google "rolling shutter effect"). However, I only notice it when moving the camera quickly (such as panning). The battery compartment doesn't open the way you might expect (look in the manual before attempting it). The on-screen menu is a pretty good but could be better. The viewfinder is electronic and the colors on it appear washed out, but it gets the job done. Finally, there are no threads on the front of the lens to mount filters on, but there are third-party adapters that will let you do this (Lensmate makes one).

However, I'm still very satisfied with my purchase and would not hesitate to recommend the camera to others looking for this kind of hybrid camera. I'm going on a trip in June and it'll be the only camera I take.

I've had this camera from the first day it came out in May, and have been desperately hoping that Canon would release an update to fix the problems I and others are having. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that a fix will be forthcoming, and so my SX1IS is unused right now, and going to end up on an auction site.

I bought it for 2 reasons: quality and zoom. As far as I can tell, I'm not able to get either of those. The quality of the shots (mostly done in "automatic" mode) are just plain terrible with noise I'd associate with a call phone camera, not a $600 one. Most shots I take, whether or not I'm using flash, are unusable. The auto-focus is VERY slow too, when it works - 4 or 5 seconds for it to finally report a good focus is unacceptable.

As far as zoom is concerned: yes, it's 20x zoom. But the only way to get a good quality shot at even close to this range is to fiddle with the manual focus controls, which are very poorly handled via a very touchy jog wheel.

For what it's worth, I am also comparing this camera's quality and performance to a 3-year-old Sony with 10 megapixels but a much lower zoom level. My wife and I had planned on giving the Sony to a family member for their use, but that plan has changed. I get consistently good quality pictures from the Sony, and can live without a high zoom level for now.

I had very high hopes for the SX1IS, having had great luck with Canon products in the past. But, as I said, I'll take my loss on this purchase, and am going to have to reconsider Canon products going forward.

Anyone want to buy a cheap (yep... not inexpensive... cheap) camera?

I was chuffed when I bought this camera. I thought this was a fantastic P&S camera until today. I was at the Natural History Museum in London taking pictures. I switched it off, then about a minute or so later I switched it on to take a picture in the Central Hall. The camera didn't operate in the normal fashion. The lens didn't open and the lens stayed in the off position. The screen then displayed a message 'lens error, restart camera'.

I've searched the web for this error message and found an abundance of people that have experienced the problem, across the Canon product range. If it was just a few people, I would have felt part of the unlucky few, but there are loads of people posting reviews containing this message.

I have a Nikon DSLR and am thoroughly disappointed at the issues that have arisen from my Canon IXUS 85 IS. Well actually, I am seething as I only purchased the Canon IXUS 85 IS in May 2009.

The SX 10IS in not just your average camera, but a movie maker too. The lens on this camera is amazing. Equivalent to 300 mm in focal length, it's not removable from the camera body. This is great because you'll never contaminate the CCD in this gem. It has a well thought out selection of pre-sets, but still offers ease of manually configuring settings yourself. With the SD 16 gig Extreme III Card, (the only one you should buy for this camera) in good lighting, it can snap off 3.5 frames per second of action in continuous shoot mode. Canon's Digic II processor and Face recognition auto focus, make this camera well worth more than you'll ever pay for it. This camera is feature rich, well built, and has too many extras to mention here.
Altho the lens will not accommodate filters, I managed to fit one on and found the camera takes much better photos with out it.
I was recently surprised after taking hundreds of photos, and finding the next day had battery power for hundreds of more using standard AA batteries.
Just behind the flip-up flash, is a hot shoe for a more powerful flash, if you think you'll need one. But I've found the flip-up flash adequate for anything within 40 feet in total darkness. The infra red focus assist in darkness is a priceless, well though of, feature. Normally the camera uses its brain to focus in light on the subject, But if it can't see the subject or object in the dark, the infra red kicks in and gets the job done.
The software included with the camera is compatible with my Mac OS 10, and Canon customer care is the best in the USA. I really don't think it's possible to find a better camera for the price. As each day passes I keep falling in love with how well this camera helps me share what I see with others.