Canon PowerShot SX260 HS
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13 years ago
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS Review
Last year bridge cameras became overly popular because they had far reaching zooms and the DSLR look that appealed to most audiences. However, a sub-segment of cameras also started gaining popularity and this genre of cameras came to be known as travel compacts.
13 years ago
Canon is once again back with its range of all new digital cameras . This time, the company has come up with the all new Canon PowerShot SX260 HS . Company's history in making the world's most advanced cameras is a testament of the very fact that despite the presence of other popular brands, it is...
Pros:
- Brightness adjustment
- Great performance even at ISO 3200
- Huge zoom range offers plenty of flexibility
- Well featured and easy to use
- Records video at 1080p
- Creative Controls offer easy creative fun
- Camera also features creative filters such as effect
- fisheye and sepia
- Slim and sturdy,...
Cons:
- Poor audio recording
- Lacks a one-touch Panorama mode
- Processing times in Single-shot mode a little slow
- Mediocre video recording in low light
- Menus and controls can take long time getting used
- Short battery life (Approx.
13 years ago
PowerShot SX260HS Fails
I bought my SX260HS camera on January 11, 2013 looking forward to taking many pics of my grandkids in an upcoming visit. I practiced with movies, snapshots, etc until I felt comfortable. Then, just 7 days later, on Jan 18, I opened the camera to take some more practice pics.
Pros:
- easy to use
Cons:
- Flimsy Construction
- failure of warranty responsibility
13 years ago
It's Pink!
Pros:
- Good zoom
- image stabilization
- lots of features
- GPS
- you can read reviews
Cons:
- It's PINK! Just posting this because Canon calls it red, and the NewEgg photos do a good job to make it look red
- Just Google image search
- It's pink
13 years ago
Sadly Disappointed
Despite the glowing reviews by camera websites and users, I was sadly disappointed by the very soft pictures; my 5 yr old Panasonic was much sharper. Fortunately I was able to exchange it at BB.
14 years ago
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS
Among Travel Zoom digital cameras, the Canon SX260 HS stands out not just for its 20x zoom lens, but for its quite complete range of controls and impressive image quality, allowing output of 16 x 20-inch prints with ease.
Pros:
- 20X zoom ranges from 25-500mm equivalent
- Optical image stabilization
- Tracking autofocus
- Face detection autofocus
- Wink activation for self-portraits
- Full HD video
- Allows autofocus and optical zoom while shooting
- Stereo microphones
- 461K-dot
- 3-inch LCD
- HDMI interface
- Good image quality
- GPS
Cons:
- Tight control placement
- Front grip too small and slippery
- No rear thumbrest
- Auto-deploying flash can be annoying (but at least it can be turned off
- Lacks ISO button
- No live histogram
- Exposure information doesn't appear until you half-press the shutter button
- Full HD video limited to 24 fps,
14 years ago
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS Review
The Canon PowerShot SX260 HS (along with its GPS-lacking twin, the PowerShot SX240) represents a sizeable change over the compact travel-zoom models that Canon had in the past.
Pros:
- Very good image quality
- surprisingly good lens quality, New design is much better: popup flash only comes up when needed, standard 4:3 ratio LCD, bigger buttons, small raised bump on the front for better grip, Scroll wheel is useful for adjusting settings, built-in GPS (though it only shows...
Cons:
- Better battery life would have been nice, LCD resolution could be higher and autofocus performance is just ‘average, Weak flash, No automatic panorama mode, no HDR or dynamic range boost option, Limited GPS usefulness
- no GPS location names/landmark database, No frame rate choices in movie mode
- 30...
14 years ago
The PowerShot SX260 HS ($349) is the latest compact travel zoom from Canon. The SX260 replaces the SX230 (one of my favorite travel zooms from last year) and its biggest feature is its wider, more powerful zoom lens.
14 years ago
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS
The Canon PowerShot SX260 HS camera is a new travel-zoom camera that replaces the SX230 HS model. There's a longer 20x, 25-500mm optical zoom lens with a built-in 4-stop image stabilizer and Intelligent IS technology, 12.1 megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor, 3 inch LCD screen with 460k-dot...
14 years ago
Cons Bottom Line Pick This Up If... The Canon PowerShot SX260 HS is another strong contender in the Canon family. It includes quite a few advanced features for a point and shoot camera, including an impressive 20x optical zoom lens and a popup flash unit.
Pros:
- Good mix of easy-to-use features and manual setting options for beginners and intermediates
- 20x zoom lens is great to see in such a thin camera
- LCD is very bright and sharp
- easily can be viewed in sunlight outdoors
- Color accuracy quality is very good
- Good mix of advanced features
- when compared...
Cons:
- Camera's autofocus can be a little slow in low light
- Overall response times can be a little sluggish
- Mode dial has a few odd choices on it
- Seems like there's some redundancy in the easy-to-use modes
- Battery can drain quickly with GPS activated
- Experienced photographers will want more control...
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