This camera is great, the reviews on every website including CNET and Tech Radar analyse the camera by saying the image quality is superb! Researched on camelcamelcamel and this is the lowest price it has ever been at! Great camera, I looked into getting a bridge camera but this appears to be better, good buy I'd say
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keep telling my father to retire his old point and shoot and get one ... ive never gone wrong with a Canon !
I too have the SX220..... very good videoing for a compact. Great stills also.
This is a brilliant deal
If you want to know more about the video recording at 1080p go on youtube and search for videos, there is a fair few.
Hope this helps
20 times zoom is amazing in a little camera like this it fits in my pocket easily. I've been taking close up pictures of the moon.
The only criticism I have is the lower megapixil count than its other rivals, though 12 megapixils it does has produce a good shot
"..... there ARE a fair few", GRRRRR
Videos are very jerky.
honestly though its a great little camera and very impressed with the video, because of the Zoom & image stabilisation its great!
I think I bought mine cheaper than this but still worth it!
Sorry, but the pedantry game is a dangerous one to play! In this context, "a few" is acting as a collective noun and, as you can see from the sentence, there's only one i.e. *a* few, so the poster is correct. It would, however, be correct to say "there are few", but that would generally mean there aren't many.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, pedant99!
Strange, it tells me that £119.97 is the cheapest price ever.
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I understand you need a remote, is that too advanced for this camera? Thanks for any replies.
snapsort.com/com…Z25
I'm always surprised people recommend snapsort, as it is nothing more than an automatic number comparison.
For instance, the Canon is presented to have an advantage over the TZ25 in terms of fps in movies, although is can only shoot 24p, while the Panasonic goes up to 60p, according to the same site Really ?
A bit surprising they do not say anything about and do not compare the megapixel count.
About prices, they say the Panasonic it is £132 more expensive, although it sold between £106 - £116 for months and months.
You zoom in on your phone and things start to jump around a lot more, just depends upon the hand of the person and how stable it is espeically when youre talking of 20x zoom - its not the camera's fault.
You seem very sure of yourself, but you might be wrong, saying it's the person holding the camera.
Why don't we see the same reports on Panasonic TZ25? Because the IMAGE STABILIZATION (which I think you forgot about, since you are not mentioning it at all), it is excellent on the TZ25 (16x zoom).
I also doubt anyone would have filmed at maximum zoom. the reports about jerky movies come from people using it at regular zoom.
So, in short, what basically the reports say is that the image stabilization on the Canon is poorly implemented.
I supposed actually you maybe mean a personal advice mainly, rather than this "automatic number comparison" as you say. But also thought that you may not know it.. I also have bought tz25 when it was £106 but send it away without trying it. Sorry
No problem, it is still better than nothing, it gave me an idea of how they compare in terms of size, weight etc.
I ended up buying both of them, so I will be able to compare the two
On the Panasonic it's only 16x zoom not 20x so it's going to be better image stabilisation anyway, the more you zoom though the more shaky it's going to get, regardless of image stabilisation which you like to keep going on about.
Have major problems and that bothered? Buy a tripod, simple.
Are you 100% sure that is the only reason and refuse to even consider the possibility of better image stabilisation in one camera compared to another?
Are you evaluating image stabilisation technologies just based on zoom? Hey, 17x>16x, that is all we need to know to evaluate image stabilisation on this camera.
Are you also 100% sure the reviewers where ALL taking the movies at maximum zoom ? How many times did you feel the need to film something at max zoom?
All these arguments really can't make you at least consider any other possibilities?
As for your tripos recommendation... are you serious? You are either joking or really don't know what you're talking about.
It's about shooting movies, you cannot film using a tripod in 99% of the occasions...
The point I made is the more you zoom the less stability you will have, that's a simple fact on every camera.