Фотоаппарат Canon PowerShot SX280 HS — подробный обзор, плюсы и минусы на основе 559 отзывов
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Скромный эксперт
09.04.2014
6/10
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I knew about the battery problem with this camera from reading the Amazon reviews here. So I resolved not to vote with my wallet (not to give Canon money for a flawed product) until they fixed it. They never did fix it.[Update April 24, 2014: Since I'm a Christian, an update to be fair to Canon. After a few charging cycles on the OEM Canon battery, the battery problem at full res video is not as bad as it was. Some people say that Li-ion batteries don't have memory or don't need to be "conditioned." Nevertheless, I can now take 20 minutes of video, zooming in and out, without getting the flashing battery indicator or a forced shutdown.]But then Target cleared them out and I was able to buy one for $120. That's less than what I paid for my Canon PowerShot SX160 IS 16.0 MP Digital Camera with 16x Wide-Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom with 3.0-Inch LCD (Red) when they were clearing those out! For that low price, I can live with the battery problem. So, 3 stars at the normal price, so you know what you're in for. 4 stars at $120.Turns out that the battery problem while recording video is only an issue at the highest video setting. (Which some say looks unnatural anyway.) If you back down to the 1280 x 720 mode, it runs just fine. (Although the battery gets very hot.) I went for a half hour, zooming in and out every now and then. I stopped because I lost patience. (That's with GPS off.)(FYI, mine was an early serial number unit, made in Japan. I had to flash it to the 1.0.2.0 firmware.)The flash unit doesn't pop up on me because I always use the camera in the P mode, with flash disabled. So that hasn't been an issue.I have a Canon SX160, which I like very much. From an ergonomic standpoint, I like the SX160 better. The SX280 is a bit small for my hands. My hands are not fat, but they are large and some of the buttons are hard to hit with my thumb. (6 ft skinny man.)And I'll have to buy spare batteries for the SX280. I get about an hour of use before the battery indicator starts to flash. I'm gonna try the Vivitar NB-6L / NB-6LH Ultra High Capacity 1700mAH Li-ion Replacement Batteries for Select Canon Digital Cameras, Pack of 2. [Update: Out of the package, the new battery gave me the flashing battery indicator within 4 minutes of Hi-res video and forced shutdowns while zooming. But, per my UPDATE above, it might be the new battery will get better with "conditioning."] Whereas I can use AA's in the SX160.Both fit in my pant pocket just fine and it's easier for me to grab and shoot with the SX160 in a hurry.However, the SX160 is a VERY slow camera, not good for action shots. The SX280 is much better (faster) shutter-lag wise. I had set the SX280 for "continuous shooting" like I have with the SX160, but it was so fast that I turned that feature off. (It kept taking two pictures before I knew what was happening.)(Reviews say the new Canon PowerShot SX700 HS Digital Camera (Red) is even faster. But $350? Wait until it comes down below $200 like the SX280 did.)Image Quality wise, the SX280 is better at the higher ISO's. Images start getting noisy past ISO 400 on the SX160, but you can easily go to ISO 800 on the SX280.[Update: I tripped across the fact that if you select AUTO ISO, the camera can use finer gradations than user selectable. For example, the camera can select ISO 500 in AUTO, whereas you can only jump from 400 to 800.]Interestingly, when taking pictures of the moon (ISO 100), both cameras are the same. Perhaps a little better with the SX280, but difficult to tell which took which picture in a side-by-side comparison. Actually, lens aberration at the periphery of the moon tells them apart. [Update: If you back off the zoom a bit in the SX280, the f stop opens to 5.6. More light = less noise, and you actually get a better image (that you can zoom with crop post processing) than an image you don't have to crop at full zoom.]For reasons I don't understand, Canon crippled the SX280 for long night exposures, forcing you to use 80 ISO for anything over one second. Whereas you can use whatever ISO you want for long exposures with the SX160. So if you're in to trying to capture invisible comets with longish exposures and high ISO's, the SX280 will not work. (So far, I don't see a hacked CHDK firmware to change this for the SX280. There's an Alpha out for the SX260, so I'm hoping a CHDK for the SX280 isn't far behind.))In fact, since the SX160 does a prodigious amount of post processing on long exposure shots, the noise is remarkably low in long exposures. So you can effectively get more done in low light conditions with the SX160 than the SX280 here.The SX280 has a nifty wi-fi feature, which I set up to use as a hot-spot. It talks to my tablet using Canon's free Android app. Saves the cost of an Eye-Fi card, and makes transferring images to the tablet (for uploading to Twitter) easy. I can do same with the SX260, but it involves powering down units to move micro-SD cards back and forth.I wouldn't pay the curre
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19.01.2014
8/10
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I read all the reviews here and on the canonusa.com website, then figured it was worth the fantastic price to me even knowing the battery life would be short if shooting movies (esp w/zooming), and that the battery warning and battery capacity icons would also be pretty useless when shooting movie clips. Since I shoot mainly stills, I decided that I would simply get a pair of extra batteries (not Canon brand)and not worry about it, assuming battery life turned out to be satisfactory. So far, I've shot about 700 pictures and 30 min of movie clips since Christmas, and it's working just as expected, getting many beautiful, sharp pictures. During the first week I had the camera, I took a succession of sets of 6 stills, 4 stills w/flash, followed by 2 min of 1920/30fps movie with one zoom. I made it nearly to the end of the 10th set (zooming during the movie clip) before the camera shut down. Just last week, I repeated the test, and the camera shut down it in the movie clip of the 9th set. I'm happy with that, so I decided to keep it. My camera (bought about Dec 1) came with the new firmware (it had "3" in the sixth digit of the S/N, instead of a lower number) so I didn't have to do the firmware upgrade from the canon website. Overall, the performance is amazing compared to my 4 year old less capable point and shoot. The low light performance without flash is impressive (considering the small aperture and small sensor size in this compact camera) - it is surprising how many low light shots I take in AUTO now and the camera doesn't even want to turn on the flash. Very often indoors, I can get sharp photos without harsh glare from the flash that just wasn't possible before - just have to learn to hold it steady and squeeze off the shot. The anti-shake technology and low noise levels at fairly high ISO are really something in this camera.The sharp 20x zoom is also coming into far more use than I thought - I had a 5x in the old camera that was good for prints up to maybe 5x7 - again, to get sharp enough pics at 20x full zoom, I needed to learn to keep the camera steady, brace the camera or my arm against something, or use a monopod or tripod, and squeeze off the shot without moving the camera. Once I used a nearby broom as a monopod and that was all the help I needed to make a soft shot fairly sharp (in playback, you can blow the image all the way up to the equiv size of a 16x20 print with 9 clicks, if you want, to examine for blur).I gave the camera 4 stars for 1) the inaccurate battery warning indicator esp when doing a movie clip, and 2)having to learn not to rest my left forefinger right on top of the pop-up flash where it naturally wants to go - I am happy to report it has finally learned to rest on the back edge of the top so it no longer stops the flash from coming up when the camera decides it wants it (and thus requiring a power off/power back on).It would have been 3 stars but I'm really impressed with the compact size, picture quality and the price - I would have happily plunked down over $300 for this camera if it weren't for the above mentioned problems.One nit: I haven't found a panorama assist mode in the SX280 like my older Canon has. I'm not into making huge half circle or full circle panoramas some cameras can do automatically, but I often want to stitch 2 landscape pictures together, and the assist feature would lock the exposure and focus and also help me keep the pictures lined up vertically with each other so as to not lose any more picture height than necessary during the stitching process. I'm doing panos OK with this camera - I turn the gridlines on to help keep the shots vertically aligned but I have to go thru some extra steps to make sure the focus and exposure don't change from the values set during the first shot. By the way, the included Canon stitching software produces fine hand held panos as long as the camera was held level (I'm a novice at panos - I wonder if there is any stitching software than can correct for the camera looking down or up or being out of level side to side - by the way, you don't need a level, but you do have to be careful).Conclusion: It is obvious some users have had unusable short battery life when shooting video, even after making a firmware update, while others like myself are finding it satisfactory as it came out of the box. I don't know if my battery experience is the new "normal" for more recently made SX280's, or just the luck of the draw. If you decide to keep it, definitely get a few extra batteries esp if you might do any video (I got 2 Wasabi batteries with AC/12VDC charger on Amazon, and plan on popping in a fresh battery when we go to take a video of our great grandchildren), and also the Case Logic DCB-302 case (the 2 spare batts and an extra memory card fit in the side pocket perfectly), and your good to go. I put the camera bag on my belt and hardly notice it is there. NOTE: For me, the Canon battery doesn't seem to charg
Скромный эксперт
09.01.2014
4/10
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I really liked the previous model of this camera, the SX260. It did have the same industrial design issues (see below) but I could overlook them since there weren't any other problems. However, this new model has enough other problems that it's just not worth keeping; I've returned it and I'm going to try a different Canon wi-fi model.- Battery problems: Even after updating the firmware, I'm running into the same problem that others mentioned; the camera will show a full battery symbol until I start recording video, when it immediately shows the low battery warning. If I record anyway, it will automatically shut off after about a minute of recording. Turning it back on shows a full battery again, and it's happy to let me shoot dozens of stills without complaining.- Dumb design: When you're holding the camera, your index fingers naturally end up in exactly the wrong positions - your left finger naturally wants to sit on top of the pop-up flash, which means it'll often fail to pop up and you'll get an error requiring you to restart the camera. And your right finger naturally wants to sit on top of the power button, which is just to the right of the shutter button and looks and feels similar, so you'll often mistakenly turn off the camera when you are trying to take a photo.- There's no true panorama mode - just an assist mode that requires you to stitch photos together later using software on your PC. That's kind of silly at this point when even cheaper cameras from other brands have this feature.- Wi-fi is kind of clunky, it offers a lot of options and it works, but setting it up for web services is tedious- requiring multiple steps on Canon's website and with Canon's CameraWindow software on your PC.The rest of this review goes into more detail about wi-fi....If you want to have the camera use wi-fi to send photos to Google Drive, Flickr, Twitter, etc. or Canon's own similar photo-sharing service, you first need to visit Canon's website to download software for your Mac or PC to register the camera and set up which services you'll want it to access. The process works but it's a bit confusing and some steps seem redundant.However, you can skip all of that if you just want the camera to wirelessly connect to your PC, smartphone, another camera, or a wi-fi printer.To start wi-fi whenever you want to transfer some photos, put the camera in playback mode, hit the "up" button and you'll get a menu showing the devices you can connect to (and any services you had set up, see above). Pick one, and the camera will then ask you choose which nearby wi-fi network to connect to.If it's a new network that requires a password, the camera will display a tiny on-screen keyboard that lets you peck out the password using the direction and OK buttons.Once you're connected, the camera will let you select photos to upload. You can send the current photo, or select up to 50 photos - one at a time (there's no way to select multiple photos in one step). You also can choose whether to send them at original size or resize them smaller (two choices), which will speed up the transfer.The transfer seems reasonably fast and once it's done the camera automatically disconnects from the wi-fi.If you want to transfer photos to your smartphone or tablet instead of an online service, then it's mostly the same process; before you start you need to have installed Canon's Camera Window app on your phone/tablet, and have it open.Once the camera is connected to your phone/tablet, you go through the same steps described above on the camera to transfer the photos to your device. The Camera Window app displays each photo as it's downloaded, and it copies them to your device's regular photos/gallery app.The Camera Window app is very basic; it doesn't let you zoom the photos, and it doesn't provide any way to preview and select photos on the camera (that has to be done on the camera as explained above). There's also no way to remotely control the camera to use it as a sort of wireless webcam for instance.Overall I found the wi-fi features to be reliable and functional, if a bit limited. There are some other wi-fi features I haven't used yet, such as printing or transferring to another camera.P.S. One of the wi-fi modes the camera has is "access point" - it makes the camera create its own wi-fi network for situations where there's no other wi-fi around, and you want to transfer photos to your phone/tablet (in which case you would connect your phone/tablet to the camera's wi-fi network). Problem is, every time you activate this mode, the camera creates a never-before-used network name (SSID) and password! Since it's always a new network, every single time you start this mode, you will have to go to settings on your phone/tablet and manually connect to the new wi-fi network and enter the password (which is displayed by the camera). Very annoying! A handy workaround - if your phone/tablet has it - is to instead activate your phone/tablet's wi-fi hotspot feat
Скромный эксперт
26.04.2014
8/10
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Some people have had battery problems with this camera. I bought 2 extra Vivitar batteries with higher mA-h ratings than the stock Canon batteries. If you do the math, this camera can put a huge load on the microprocessor when you ask it to take high-rate, high-resolution videos, or multiple shots. Zoom a lot at the same time, and these little batteries aren't going to hack it. In addition, Canon has something wrong (I suspect) with the battery life sensor/indicator. (My guess is the 1.0.2.0 firmware update that's available from Canon is to help that.) On the good side, that's depressed the price of this camera. Since I don't intend to take a lot of videos with this camera, I'm OK with that. :)I may have also gotten a good one. Over 2 days of playing with it, I've yet to change the battery. It's showing 2/3 charge. It has however, flashed "charge the battery" warnings acouple of times.For calibration, this is replacing a Canon A1100IS we bought about 4 years ago as a second camera.Pro (for me):Really good, clear picturesGood image stabilization (hand-holding at 1/15th of a second or slower!)Low noise, as low as ISO 1600Large zoom rangeManual focusDIGIC 6 processor (latest generation)Very nice screenP, Av, Tv & M exposure modesCanon's basically good control layoutSmall and light; carrying around a DSLR can be wearyingWi-Fi is handyFits in the same case as my A1100, which was originally bought for a tiny 35 mm Vivitar I carried as a 2nd camera for years. It's marked "Samsonite World Sport, Model #20" if that helps.Cons:Not as good a macro capability as the A1100 (which is sterling at that one thing. I'll be keeping it for that.)No viewfinder (unlike the A1100. It's not needed all the time, but it is handy)Slow GPS lock in (my Nexus shows 18 or so satellites in view, and took maybe 30 sec. to lock in. The camera took several times that)GPS power hog. (It appears to suck up a lot of power, turning it on and off a few times did seem to affect battery charge indication)No auto bracket (To be fair, that's not common on cameras, but it should be. Canon puts it on the similar S110.)No hyperfocal distance setting (You can do it manually, of course, but, Canon, why not add another click on the focus bar? There's a computer in there, you know)Lithium batteries (I prefer the A1100's NiMH AAs so you can get a new set at any Staples for cheap or use alkaline AAs in a pinch)So, with all of 2 days of experience under my belt:1) Nice easily-portable camera at a low-ish price2) Power hog, due to inefficient GPS, big zoom, and powerful microprocessor being pushed by video, etc.I'll update this review someday when I have some durability information.Update: 4/27/2014 Took a nice long walk, shot 6 min. of 720p x 30fps video and took 101 L-superfine .jpg (4k x 3k pixel) photos. This used up most of a fully-charged Vivitar 1700 mA-h battery. I got a battery warn and shutdown after my walk while reviewing the video at home. The 1000 mA-h stock Canon battery would give proportionately less life. Canon says that the stock battery is good for 210 photos. A 1700 mA-h Vivitar battery should be good for 147 more than that, or 357 photos. That means that 6 min. of 720p video is worth 256 photos! I don't think anyone will be shooting at 1080p x 60fps much.Another way to look at it is the number of pixels processed per second by any of the 11 modes of the camera. The normal L .jpg picture takes 12.0E+6 pixels/sec (12 megapixels/sec). The least hungry mode S, takes only 0.307E+6 pixels per second. The hungriest mode is the 14 frames per second L multiple shot mode, which takes 168.E+6 pixels/sec. Since this is only in use for a few frames, it's not bad on battery life. The second worst mode 1080p x 60fps takes 124.E+6 pixels per second, 1037% of the normal L photo processing power! The 720p x 30fps mode I used is only 230% of the normal L mode. Remember, though, the single shot modes are on now and then, maybe a second out of every minute at most. The video modes are on continuously.NB: Good cameras with a lot of features have historically eaten batteries. I carry around a handful for the A1100.Misc.: I'm sorry to see the little A1100 get superseded; it was a trouper. Its biggest problem was auto-focusing at long zoom, which isn't a problem if you're taking snapshots in your yard, but it can be a problem if you see a magnificent vista before you. The SX280 shouldn't have a problem with that (manual zoom). YMMV
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19.10.2013
6/10
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Canon SX-280: Likely the Best Camera that You will Soon Regret BuyingCanon currently has two truly superlative small-sensor cameras, but this isn't one of them. While the Canon PowerShot SX50 HS 12MP Digital Camera with 2.8-Inch LCD (Black) and Canon PowerShot ELPH 330 12MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom with 3-Inch LCD (Black) are both in the best of breed, best of class league . . . the SX-280 isn't.The SX-280 is polluted with largely meaningless features: WiFi, GPS, Hybrid Auto / Movie Digest are all battery-sucking little monsters of dubious utility. What they do is serve to illuminate what has never been the strong suit of this line, battery life, and that includes my SX230 which also has a GPS, but 14x optical zoom.What is worse is that some of the most-touted improved features of this camera (which IS both faster and slightly better in low-light than the 20x optical zoom SX260) are video-capability related. The reason this is so bad is that this camera, as released in April, is deeply flawed: with random video shutdowns and immediate low-battery (red light flashing) warnings in video mode. It should not have been rushed to release in this not ready for prime time condition at all, yet it was. A firmware fix was eventually cobbled together and finally released on the Canon website months later. While my example does not lock-up, the problems go well beyond what firmware can address. There are hardware systems flaws in this camera and no firmware can correct it. The firmware update is provided with the standard "it is all on you" Canon disclaimer: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU (AND NOT CANON, CANON'S SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, THEIR DISTRIBUTORS AND DEALERS) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. Few read the contracts they agree to, yes it is common language . . . but it is a long way from confidence-inspiring.Nothing is perfect, how well we all know, and there are personal considerations such as control placement and button size that folks with smaller hands will find ideal, yet others will find unbearable to try to use. I get this, for there is no such thing as one size fits all. Nevertheless, of the SX230 / SX260 / SX280 line, the SX280 remains the only one of the three released with a blatant, serious flaw. There is no dispute about this, for Canon refers to it as one of their "high-level advisories." Under shooting conditions with good lighting, the SX260 is just as good of a camera without the headaches. Nevertheless, the speedier SX280 (although it has the same, 20x, F3.5 / F.6.8 lens array as the SX260) does do better in low light.The SX280's retail price has dropped from its original $330, and it now is a bargain in this class at $239, or WOULD BE if it worked as promised. Already there are piles of lightly used and "as new" examples selling for $200 or less. Not a bad deal if video is totally unimportant to you, and battery life in general isn't, either. But, there are options: the Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR 16MP Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD (Black)that has the same zoom range, even faster autofocus, and captures RAW. In the Bargain Class, still 20X zoom: Fujifilm FinePix F850EXR 16MP Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD (Black) currently at $209 (less elsewhere), with a 920K LCD is hard to beat for the money. If optical zoom in this form factor is of prime importance to you, the SX280 is already outgunned by the 22x of the Nikon S9500, the 24x of the Olympus SH-50 iHS, and the whopping 30x of the Sony DSC-HX50V/B 20.4MP Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD Screen (Black).CONCLUSIONIF the SX280 performed as promised and worked as described by Canon, it WOULD be a 4-1/2 star + camera at a very good price. That's exactly what it doesn't do, so there is no way I could keep it, much less recommend it. It was to be only an incremental improvement from the SX260, even if it worked flawlessly, which it does not. The case size, sensor, lens, battery, basic layout are unchanged. It is essentially the "new DIGIC 6" processor that has been added, along with Wi-Fi. The HD Movie Digest and faster video frame rates just make the already very weak battery appear much weaker, with flawed circuitry that makes video attempts short, erratic, and unreliable.Though smaller, lighter, 10x zoom, and less money . . the ELPH 330 HS is currently Canon's best pocket camera. That one is staying here, its images are superb, that is what I want a camera to do with no hassle: take excellent images. However, if the well-known video / battery issues don't bother you, feel free to ignore this review and take your chances on a SX280. Buying used makes sense here, for there is a quickly growing
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22.09.2013
10/10
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After doing much research into which point and shoot under $300 (and without a touch screen) would be best for shooting mostly pictures and occasional video of my toddler son when I didn't want to use my DSLR or video camera, I settled on this one. I already own a Canon DSLR (EOS Rebel XTi)and a Canon video camera (Vixia HF20), and I love both of those, so I narrowed down my search to Canon cameras pretty quickly. I actually wanted to stay under $200, but eventually narrowed my search to this camera (less than $300) and the ELPH 330 (less than $200) after comparing the features of all of the Canon cameras below $300 and reading many reviews on Amazon and other sites, including several photography sites. This one seemed to be better for taking pictures of a moving subject (toddlers rarely slow down for pictures), so I decided the extra $80 for this camera would be a good investment. If you take pictures of things/people that aren't usually moving, the ELPH 330 would probably work just fine for you.I was a little hesitant to buy this camera because of the overall 3.5 star rating, but it seemed to me that all of the 1 and 2 star ratings were because of the "low battery" signal while taking video, and many of the newer reviews detailed that this was taken care of with a firmware update. I have actually found that it might be a little less straightforward than that. I have not yet attempted to download the firmware update - I will update this review after I do so. When I bought the camera, I also bought a spare battery that is not OEM Canon (Digipower BP-CN6L Replacement Li-Ion Battery for Canon NB-6L for use with Canon SD770IS, SD1200IS, & D10 Digital Cameras). I charged both batteries, and shot videos and still pictures over the span of four days: indoor bouncy playground and swim lessons with my 16 month old; a children's farm; a hands-on discovery museum; and plenty of pictures at home in relatively low light. I took several short videos, and somewhere around 300 pictures. I took most of the pictures using full auto. I can't remember exactly when I switched batteries, but it was somewhere on the fourth (and busiest) day. Plenty of other reviewers have commented on details of picture quality and other details, so below is what I noticed that I don't remember being covered in other reviews.Here is what I noticed right away:* When not using the flash, the camera can quickly take one shot after another* When using the flash, there is quite a bit of lag time between taking a shot and being able to take another shot - this is quite frustrating when trying to shoot pictures of a toddler* It is easy to turn off the flash using the button on the back of the camera (press the lightening bolt, scroll over two clicks, and press "set")* Turning off the flash also lowers the pop-up flash without having to turn off the camera (before I discovered this, I thought I had to turn off the camera to lower the flash, since you are not supposed to physically push it down).* The camera takes great pictures in low light without the flash (but they have lots of shadows and the colors are not quite as vivid, which you would expect without a flash)* The flash does not "wash out" pictures* While using the camera with the OEM battery that came with the camera, I did NOT get the "low battery" warning while shooting video* While shooting video using the NON-CANON BATTERY, I got the "low battery" warning when zooming while shooting video, and every time I tried to zoom after seeing the red flashing battery, the camera would stop taking video and display a "charge battery" message - I will be interested in seeing if updating the firmware will fix this problem (I will update this review after updating the firmware). This was frustrating enough that if the firmware update does not fix this, I will be returning the non-canon battery, and spending the money to buy a genuine OEM Canon battery.* The image stabilization does not appear to work while shooting video - a few of the videos I took were quite shaky, but for a sub-$300 camera, that is okay with me - I have a dedicated video camera with great image stabilization, and expect to only use the SX280 when I don't feel like dragging out the video camera (quick videos while out and about).* The color is almost too vivid in still pictures and in video - I'm not a big fan of over-saturated pictures, so I will try to figure out how to fix this* The level of detail in still pictures rivals my DSLR, though the pictures with the SX280 are a little bit 'noisy' compared to the DSLR (this might only be noticeable on my large monitor...)* Still pictures and video using the zoom turn out great, other than being a little over-saturated and a little bit 'noisy'* It is easy to take video - you only have to push one button on the back of the camera, compared to the older Kodak point-and-shoot that I have where I have to go into a menu to switch between still pictures and videoI'm sure I am forgetti
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11.09.2013
10/10
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Like many other reviewers, I knew this camera might have major issues before purchasing it, and I bought it anyway. I have a Nikon D3100 DSLR that I absolutely love, and a Canon SX20IS that I always carry along in my backpack for those instances when there's no time to change lenses to catch that perfect shot of something too close/far away.I love both of these cameras, but there are times I shrug off the thought of bringing either one of them because they're just too clunky. Sometimes all you care about is capturing those perfect family moments. Other times you feel like you're missing out on LIVING those perfect family moments because you're lugging around your own weight in gear.Last month my husband and I went to a museum, a dog park, and an arboretum, and all three times I left the camera bag at home (gasp!). It was freeeeeeeing! But it was also painful, because people without cameras use cell phones to take pictures. Acccck.We're expecting our first baby in five months, so I know the decision between Capturing Moments and Living Moments is going to get even more difficult. I bought this camera to compromise. I wanted something small enough to fit in my pocket but that would still take decent photos. Other features I cared about (in order or priority) were zoom, the ability to take short (5 minute) videos, manual options, and RAW capabilities.I narrowed my choices to the Canon SX280 and the Fugifilm F7770EXR. Both have 20x zoom and manual settings, and they're about the same size. The Canon has a bigger shutter speed range on both sides of the spectrum (1/3200 to 15 seconds vs 1/2000 to 8 seconds), better video options (60fps vs 30fps), and better image stabilization (lens vs. sensor shift). However, the Canon does NOT shoot RAW photos and the sensor is a tiny bit smaller.Ultimately I turned to reviews and decided that IF I could get the firmware to fix the battery issue on the Canon, this camera would be a better choice. It seems like the Fugi has a lot more complaints regarding video quality, and even though shooting RAW is important to me, it's one of those features that's probably best left to my DSLR anyway.So I bought the camera, checked the serial number, and verified that I needed the update to fix the battery issue. You can check the serial number by looking on the bottom of the camera, and if the 6th digit from the left is 2, 1, or 0, you need the update!The update and instructions can be found here:[...]A couple of tips about updating the firmware:*It's suggested that you have a 32MB SSD card. This card does NOT come with the camera! You'll need one anyway to take pictures.*You will also need a computer that can read and write to your SSD card, or an external adapter that plugs into your computer.*Formatting your SSD card is different than simply erasing everything on it. The instructions explain how to format; this step is super important!*After formatting the SSD card and copying over the new firmware, I waited almost an hour before popping the battery and the SSD card back in the camera. This was because I was charging the battery to 100% (per instructions), but others have mentioned a "20-minute rule."Before the firmware update, the red low-battery icon would start flashing immediately after hitting the video record button, and the camera would turn itself completely off after about 15 seconds.After the firmware update, I was able to take the following videos on a single battery charge:One 1:30 (one minute, 30 second) video with extensive zooming in and out (this was just a quick test to see if the firmware update had worked at all, which it obviously had!).One 26:00 video. During this time I didn't use the zoom at all. The red low-battery icon light started flashing at 23:00, giving me a full three-minute warning before the recording stopped. The camera didn't turn off all the way, it just stopped recording video.One 23:30 video. After the 26:00 video caused the video recording to stop, I turned the camera off and back on again, then started filming a third video. This time the red low-light icon started flashing at 1:30, but the camera kept recording for 22 more minutes.So long story short, there's definitely still something wonky with the camera after the firmware update, but being able to shoot over 50 minutes of video on a single battery charge is more than adequate for what I need. If you're wanting more than that, I'd probably suggest looking into pocket camcorders like the Samsung W300 or the Kodak PlaySport.Other notes about the camera:I don't like the location of the flash but I'll get used to it. I think it would be a lot better if they'd put it in the middle of the camera instead of where your finger sits.It's really difficult to open the battery / SSD slot. Maybe it's just me? It seems like I really have to push, and half the time I end up powering the camera on because of the way you have to grip the camera. This could end up being a fatal flaw considering how often I expec
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26.08.2013
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I bought one of these and used it pretty heavily for 2 weeks on vacation in July 2013. I was specifically looking to: 1) Upgrade my video from my 4 year old Powershot; 2) Improve on the 3x zoom of my current camera. There's hundreds of reviews already so I won't cover everything, just what stuck with me.The good:- Great stills for the most part. Great movies too, even in low light. I got excellent footage at full 20x zoom (on a tripod) of a deer browsing at dusk.- A solid feel to the camera.- Batteries charge externally. I have multiple batteries and I can have one charging while using the camera rather than tying up the camera as a battery charger. Most comparable cameras at best only permit external charging if you buy a special charger.- The camera is still small enough to fit into your pocket (it may cause a shirt pocket to sag a bit).- I totally love the 20x zoom. Strong enough to really get close while anything more might be tricky to stabilize.The bad:- The movie start button is right next to the mode dial. Even though my hands are small, I would not infrequently accidentally start a movie and at the end of the day would have to purge half a dozen movies of my shoes from the camera. The movie quick start button is handy but not right next to the mode dial.- The mode dial is somewhat small, even for my small hands. Just about all my photos are taken in auto mode or program mode. It would have been nice if these were next to each other on the dial.- Even with the firmware update the camera still has power display issues. After using the camera for about 10 minutes for general photos I would start a movie and not long after I would get a low battery warning. With the firmware upgrade you can still use the camera but you have no idea how much battery is really left. Even if you switch back to taking photos the camera will still flash low battery. I would then turn the camera off and back on and it would say I had a full battery. You can work with it this way but it can get tiresome, and then when the end really comes you have little warning. Frankly I did buy the camera also to upgrade my video capability and this issue really messes with that feature even if you can still take movies (kind of like driving ignoring the check engine light).- For me the lack of a panorama mode is a real downcheck. I was in southern Utah and the Grand Canyon where panorama is a must. Canon does include Photostitch software for you to try to create panorama photos on your computer, but the results I had were satisfactory despite having learned last year after a trip to S. Dakota Badlands that Photostitch is finicky to use. You really need to switch to fully manual metering mode so your different shots don't get metered differently, otherwise you end up with lines in the sky. Even though this year I tried to get a lot of overlap between photos I still get a lot of distortion at the edges making it hard to get a good match between photos, and ending up with curved panoramas. There may be a way to take panorama photos using short movies (especially using the 280's "hybrid" mode), then extract the frames and try stitching a large number of those together (I think other cameras do just that in panorama mode), but my older computer won't run the new Canon software. Anyway, it just doesn't compare to a true panorama mode.- I never got used to the flash trying to pop up under my left hand. In the end I just turned off flash mode (see exception below) but of course then I had to turn it back on when needed and turn it off again. If they had put it in the center of the camera it wouldn't be so bad.- I like taking night photos, and they all tend to be large, distant things such as buildings. Unfortunately the nighttime mode default is to try to use flash which is no good for a building 100 feet away. You can turn off the flash, but if you powercycle the camera it will come back on. Of course then you aren't expecting the flash to pop up and you get a warning message to shut down the camera because of a problem with the flash, etc.- I would get through about 1.5 batteries per day. Of course battery life will depend upon how and how much you use your camera, but that was how I wanted to use it. I was a bit disappointed they didn't last longer and was very glad I had 2 spares. Initially my plan was to go a battery per day while camping and recharge all in motels between tent camping stints. I ended up daily using my battery charger that plugs into the car cigarette lighter (I still have an old car) and doing it that way, though I didn't like using the car battery. I was fortunate that the SX280 still uses the same battery as my other Canon Powershot.The So-so:- I don't need wireless so I didn't even try it.- It has GPS but I almost never used it. GPS uses battery power. Then too, I usually know where I am when I take a photograph. There's times I want it and it can't or should not work (won't work in a car,
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