Canon PowerShot SX1 IS 10 Megapixel Bridge Camera

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Strengths: great pictures, amazing video, awesome zoom, the screen

Weakness: battery life, auto focusing, feels small

love the camera, i've had it for about 2 months and i plan on bringing it on spring break, only hope the batteries don't run out. you can get 2-3 hours of use out of 1 set of rechargeable, so it's always good to keep a spare. the manual is a must or else you will get completely lost. HD video great and also great iso range with decent noise even at iso 1600

By jimbob84 - Mar 2, 2010

SX1 is good for semi-pro and standard use

Strengths: HD Video - RAW stills in a compact form, ease of use, great lens, pretty good IS.

Weakness: Does not make pro type images at ISO 200 or greater.

I have shot tens of 1000s of stills and video over 40 years, in all formats of film and video as well as digital for the past 8 years, I spent 30 years in broadcast TV. Getting my mind wrapped around shooting with this type of camera form has been the biggest hurdle for me. I had to put my SLR and video cameras away for the past 8 months so that I could get my head and body retrained to use this...
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I have shot tens of 1000s of stills and video over 40 years, in all formats of film and video as well as digital for the past 8 years, I spent 30 years in broadcast TV.

Getting my mind wrapped around shooting with this type of camera form has been the biggest hurdle for me. I had to put my SLR and video cameras away for the past 8 months so that I could get my head and body retrained to use this camera. It's different, you can't just reach out and rack focus or change fstops or shutter speed like an SLR so I decided to retrain my brain to actually use this camera form as instinctively as I used an SLR.

The camera itself takes very good pictures for the invested price and really offers advantages of smaller form, lighter weight, massive storage capabilities as well as RAW and HD video.

In real life use, as a wildlife photographer, I feel a little funny standing right next to other wildlife photographers with D7s and huge lenses getting almost identical images with this really small camera. Living in South Florida I get a lot of experience showing off my images in those circles. OH yea, makes great HDRi too.

Here is a photoshow with combined stills and video. Obviously this isn't full HD.
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Butterfly video link (HD) www.flickr.com/photos/...

Still www.flickr.com/photos/...

By jmdavey - Mar 1, 2010

Very Good Product HD 1080P is Amazing

Strengths: Full HD Recording, Amazing Picture Quality

Weakness: Non Yet

Overall this is a an amazing camera, no regrets. Just set it to auto and it does everything else. Power Usage was not bal neither but i recomend using NIMH Rechargable Batteries

By Steve; - Nov 3, 2009

Canon PowerShot SX1 IS

THE GOOD: Relatively fast; good HD video; raw file support. THE BAD: Big; quirky interface; some image artifacts. THE BOTTOM LINE: A top megazoom option, the Canon PowerShot SX1 IS offers a 20x zoom lens and HD video, which you cant get in a similarly priced dSLR, and delivers more features and slightly better performance and photo quality than the cheaper SX10 IS.
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By cnet.com - Apr 27, 2009

Best 5x Zoom Digital Camera with Resolution Atleast 3 Megapixel

Image is Good according to 13 Digital Camera experts. -- "intelligent contrast correction"-digitalcamerareview.com -- "generally good image quality"-digitalcamerareview.com -- "clever image stacking modes"-dpreview.com Read more to find expert opinions on more features like Video, Optics, Interface, Battery, etc.
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By reviewgist.com - Jan 7, 2010