Canon PowerShot Zoom Review: Pocket Telephoto

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@encellon 4 жыл бұрын

You have produced a straight-to-the-point useful review. Many thanks. (Way more here than I planned to write...) As someone who's hung out on the pro/amateur boundary for 50 years, camera tech in the last dozen years is becoming increasingly maddening. Optical theory strongly suggests that a small aperture can only produce higher-quality images at wider angles -- true in cellphones, GoPros, and every other 'pocket-scale' camera I've ever used. If we want 'reach' with decent image quality and a low-noise 'fast' exposure aperture, we need a sizable lens. No way around this. And unless cellphones include substantially bigger lenses -- their telephoto image quality will never get any better. Last year, I bought a Blackmagic 'Pocket' cinema camera (actually the size of a large 35mm SLR camera body). Using this camera with 'sizable' lenses, I can record awesome 4k/60fps professional video with lots of reach -- but only at the cost of sizable complexity that renders the camera nearly useless for spontaneous recording. What would I *most* prefer? -- an easy-to-use brick-sized (or less) all-in-one camcorder with Blackmagic image quality (13 stops of dynamic range), image-stabilization, at least 20x zoom (20-400mm equiv.), good quality optics, recording at 4k/60fps, and decent stills -- all costing less than $2,500 (or even $5,000). But nothing like that exists on this planet (last time I looked), and with no apparent market for a camera like this, it never will exist -- too big, too specialized, too expensive for a camera that isn't also a cellphone. Too much for the typical consumer. Not enough for professionals. Lately, I've been working with 'extreme' cameras -- like a solar-powered trail camera I set up to record time-lapse in all sorts of weather (running nearly 2 years without failure) -- or sticking a GoPro down inside a woodchuck burrow (and inside the walls of our house). When I am seeing video I could never see any other way -- I stop worrying so much about a professional result. In the end, a 'pocket-sized' camera solution with average quality has one major advantage over anything bigger and better. The camera you have with you is the only camera that matters.

@GeoffMorrison 4 жыл бұрын

"The camera you have with you is the only camera that matters." This exactly. After all my testing this is really the feeling I had about the Zoom. It's not perfect, but it's easy to always have with you. That's super valuable.

@Kryptic_Karma 2 жыл бұрын

I like the idea. If the sensor was better, I'd buy it though. I like the idea of having something small like that I can carry everywhere.

@astrowalker2629 3 жыл бұрын

And something tells me it does not come with a pouch :-(. Thank you for review!

@honeybeez499 4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate that man👊🏻💚

@georgereed1568 3 жыл бұрын

Going to try it for capturing record shots of birds, as you say great for niche needs like birders! (Potentially!) 🤞 It's good enough

@user-jt5vm3mi1w 3 жыл бұрын

The price lol

@XGlite015 3 жыл бұрын

This would be great if smartphones from Xiaomi and Samsung don't have 120x zoom. Unfortunately, they do.

@ImagemakerAi 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t look like the image stabilization works very well for videos

@GeoffMorrison 3 жыл бұрын

For handheld at that zoom distance, it's actually not bad. Would be way shakier without it.

@ImagemakerAi 3 жыл бұрын

Geoffrey Morrison I have a M6 Mark II and if I zoom to 250 (400 equivalent) it is rock steady. That being said the Power Zoom is pretty neat. We got one for Christmas. Didn’t come with a 9VDC/2A USB 3 charger so couldn’t use right away!

@twizz420 3 жыл бұрын

@@ImagemakerAi Use your M6 Mark II one-handed. Also, most smartphone chargers within the last few years with quickcharge functionality can do well over 9v. My Sony Xperia XZ2 charger can do 5v 2700mA, 9v 1800mA, or 12v 1350mA. And it's like 3 years old.