Canon PowerShot SX610 HS

Canon PowerShot SX610 HS

The Canon PowerShot SX610 HS ($249.99) is an affordable compact camera with a long 18x zoom lens. It's loaded with features, including Wi-Fi and Canon's fun Creative Shot mode, but its 20-megapixel image sensor does more to detract from image quality than it does to add to it.

Canon PowerShot SX610 HS Review

The Canon PowerShot SX610 HS is an attractive compact camera with an 18x zoom lens, but image quality takes a step back from last year's edition. The Canon PowerShot SX610 HS ($249.99) is an affordable compact camera with a long 18x zoom lens. It's loaded with features, including Wi-Fi and Canon's fun Creative Shot mode, but its 20-megapixel image sensor does more to detract from image quality than it does to add to it. If you want a long zoom camera in this price range, you're better served with the SX600 HS ( at Amazon) , which is a year old but still available at retail. Our favorite pocket superzoom is more expensive, but we think that the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS50 ($350.00 at Amazon) is more than worth its asking price, and that makes it our Editors' Choice. Design and FeaturesThe SX610 HS ($258.98 at Amazon)  measures just 2.4 by 4.1 by 1.1 inches (HWD) and weighs 6.7 ounces. It slides into a pocket with ease, thanks to its slim body. The chassis incorporates both metal and plastic, but it feels solidly built nonetheless. The lines of its body are a little more angular than those of the SX600 HS (2.4 by 4.1 by 1 inch,...

All tests were taken using a SanDisk Class 10, 16 GB SDHC memory card, Program Mode, Flash off, Review on, ISO Auto and all other settings at the factory defaults unless noted otherwise.

Canon PowerShot SX610 HS

Last year's PowerShot SX600 HS offered a good balance of performance and features at a reasonable price, so it's perhaps unsurprising that Canon hasn't altered this recipe much for the new SX610 HS. It features the same 18x optically stabilised lens giving a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 25-450mm.

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Fantastic camera at a reasonable price

Wi-Fi

I am just learning how to use this camera, but it seems pretty intuitive. I plan to take it on my next trip , so I will know better later. One stumbling block for me is my current inability to upload into my desktop. I still have Windows XP and it is compatible with 7 and 8.

While Canon's PowerShot SX610 HS camera has reached the 20 megapixels of resolution threshold -- a level of resolution that seemed unlikely for most point and shoot cameras just a few years ago -- just reaching 20MP isn't enough to guarantee that the SX610 is a great camera.

Canon SX610 HS

A small PowerShot digital camera, for those who do not know a PowerShot can be little larger than an IXUS the smallest of Canoncameras or as large as the small end of Canons DSLR range, so here it is at the IXUS end of the range.

Canon SX610 HS

A small PowerShot digital camera, for those who do not know a PowerShot can be little larger than an IXUS the smallest of Canoncameras or as large as the small end of Canons DSLR range, so here it is at the IXUS end of the range.

Great price and quality

excellent camera - still and motion. great price!