Rating 4.1 75 reviews
Manufacturer: Canon
ePHOTOzine
14 years ago

Canon Powershot SX260 HS GPS Travel Zoom Review

The Canon Powershot SX260 HS offers a lot of optical zoom in a compact camera body and has a number of features that the traveller will find appealing including GPS with GPS logging.
Pros:
  • Good image quality - good detail and colour
  • 20x optical zoom lens in a compact camera
  • Full HD video
  • Stereo sound
  • also Slow motion video
  • 10fps shooting
  • 10 frames
  • Reasonable value for money
Cons:
  • Lacks HDR mode
  • Lacks auto-panoramic stitching
  • High Speed 10fps only available in one mode
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DigitalVersus
14 years ago

Canon PowerShot SX260 HS

UPDATE 04/07/2012: with its 1'' 20-Megapixel sensor, the Sony Cyber-shot RX100 sets a new standard for picture quality in compact cameras, both in terms of detail and digital noise.
Pros:
  • Very good general picture quality
  • especially at long focal lengths
  • Good build quality
  • nice design and handling
  • Flash now only pops out when you actually want to use it
  • Full HD video with decent picture quality and stereo sound
Cons:
  • Responsiveness could be better
  • Pop-up flash could put some users off
  • Battery life is quite low (230 photos with GPS off
  • Limited video framerate: 24 fps
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CNET
14 years ago

Canon PowerShot SX260 HS review Review

The Canon PowerShot SX260 HS is a great little camera. Where it really matters most -- image quality -- it does a good job, if not a perfect one. Fine detail could be better handled in the furthest corners of some shots, but over the majority of the frame, it's sharp and well rendered, with vibrant...
Pros:
  • GPS geotagging
  • Long zoom
  • Great colour reproduction
Cons:
  • Occasional colour fringing
  • Chunky design
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Amateur Photographer
14 years ago

Canon PowerShot SX260 HS review

With the summer holiday season fast approaching, Richard Sibley tests Canon's latest travel compact camera that features a 20x optical zoom, full HD movies and GPS. Launched earlier this year, the PowerShot SX260 HS is the latest travel zoom compact camera from Canon.
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PC Advisor
14 years ago

Canon PowerShot SX260 HS review

You're probably familiar with the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none." The PowerShot SX260 HS blows that idea out of the water. This is a pocket megazoom that does a lot of things and masters quite a few of them, providing excellent overall image and video quality, easy-to-use controls for...
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Trusted Reviews
14 years ago

Canon PowerShot SX260 HS

The Canon SX260 HS is the latest flagship travel compact to grace Canon's perennially popular PowerShot compact range and comes with a 20x optical zoom, GPS functionality and the ability to record Full HD movies at 24fps.
Pros:
  • Huge zoom range offers plenty of flexibility
  • Class-leading build quality for a travel compact
  • Well featured and easy to use
  • Creative Controls offer easy creative fun
Cons:
  • Lacks a one-touch Panorama mode
  • Processing times in Single-shot mode a little slow
  • AF not as quick as the competition
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What Digital Camera
14 years ago

Canon PowerShot SX260 HS Review

Canon's latest High Sensitivity snapper, the SX260 HS, updates last year's SX230 HS model and is designed to be the perfect travel companion and in all lighting conditions. But is it?
Pros:
  • Image quality (at wider focal lengths)
  • 20x optical zoom lens in such a compact camera
  • Full HD video with Stereo sound
  • Value for money
  • Compact
Cons:
  • Lack of sharpness when zoomed
  • Pop up flash in poor position
  • Chromatic aberration
  • Slow
  • Poor pop up flash position
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Camerasdirect
14 years ago

A good travel camera. Compact good performance and good photos.

I have had one of these for a few months for use when travelling. I wanted a compact camera with good zoom capability and resolution. The SX 260 does the job quite nicely.
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Cameras
14 years ago

Canon Powershot SX260 HS

The Canon Powershot SX260 HS is aimed at someone looking for lots of features packed into a small camera. The 20x zoom lens is the stand out feature. Comparing the specification of the Powershot SX260 HS against other similar sized digital cameras with long lenses the emphasis has been placed more...
Pros:
  • Good Points: Picture quality
  • features
  • value for money
  • GPS
  • stereo sound
  • Full High Definition Movies
  • iFrame movies
  • 20x Zoom
  • Manual Exposure Controls
  • GPS
  • Full High Definition Movies
  • Stereo Sound
  • iFrame Movies
  • Slow Motion Movies
  • Advanced Flash Control
  • 10.3 Frames Per Second Burst Mode,...
Cons:
  • Bad Points: Slow shutter response times with flash
  • No 3D Mode
  • No 360 Degree Panoramas
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Buy-n-Shoot.com
14 years ago

Canon PowerShot SX260 HS Digital Camera Review

For under $500 the Canon Powershot SX260 does more than you'd expect. It has many unique features that set it aside from other similar priced models such as GPS and iFrame Video. It has the highest build quality and the highest quality materials.
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