Canon Powershot SX240 HS Digital Camera £119.97 @ Amazon

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7th Oct 2013

great cameras

8th Oct 2013

snap .. have the old version SX220 still excellent and still use it as my NEX lens choice on the short tele side is worse than crap its non existent >60mm bar a dark soft kitzoom useless for indoors or dull days outdoors sport

keep telling my father to retire his old point and shoot and get one ... ive never gone wrong with a Canon !

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8th Oct 2013

hyenadog
snap .. have the old version SX220 still excellent and still use it as … snap .. have the old version SX220 still excellent and still use it as my NEX lens choice on the short tele side is worse than crap its non existent >60mm bar a dark soft kitzoom useless for indoors or dull days outdoors sportkeep 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

8th Oct 2013

Great camera but camelcamel says to me this was £107.98 a few months back. Still worth a go at this price but just to be clear

8th Oct 2013

Can anyone vouch for quality of this camera? Need one soonish.

8th Oct 2013

@ SilentKnight - yes I can. Superb camera and at a great price, you will not be disappointed.

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

8th Oct 2013

SilentKnight
Can anyone vouch for quality of this camera? Need one soonish.

read above post, thanks.

8th Oct 2013

Is this suitable for a first camera and how would I put my pictures on to facebook?

8th Oct 2013

Darn it, I was hoping the pink one would be in the cheap bracket too. I'm pretty sure a friend of mine has this one...amazing zoom.

Edited by: "louiselouise" 8th Oct 2013

8th Oct 2013

I remember when I was buying the Lumix TX25 and this was the main competition - even though it was £150 and the TZ25 was £110 (back in April), I was still attracted to the Canon (though in the end I bought the Panasonic to save money), now that it's slowly dropped in price to this, it's a great deal.

8th Oct 2013

Really is a great camera I brought this 2 months ago. Heat added.
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

8th Oct 2013

http://m.flickr.com/photos/101787482@N08/9841853526/lightbox/

8th Oct 2013

Aaron_QPR
@ SilentKnight - yes I can. Superb camera and at a great price, you will … @ SilentKnight - yes I can. Superb camera and at a great price, you will not be disappointed.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

"..... there ARE a fair few", GRRRRR

8th Oct 2013

Aaron_QPR
@ SilentKnight - yes I can. Superb camera and at a great price, you will … @ SilentKnight - yes I can. Superb camera and at a great price, you will not be disappointed.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

Videos are very jerky.

8th Oct 2013

If it's broadly comparable to the SX230 then I can certainly vouch for the quality too. I'm no professional (or even a competent amateur) but this takes far better pictures than any of my previous compacts (I had a Fuji Finepix, a Panasonic Lumix and some other sub-£100 Canon; I can never remember all the model numbers) and I get lovely clear images with the SX230.

8th Oct 2013

well I'm a professional and I have this camera as a fun/pocket one that I carry around with me, more for families or quick situations...
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!

8th Oct 2013

pedant99
"..... there ARE a fair few", GRRRRR

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.

8th Oct 2013

Owned it for quite a while , couldn't recommend more , lots of heat for the price

8th Oct 2013

Eye luv tha grama poliz init? LOLz

8th Oct 2013

Doctor Mesmer
Sorry, but the pedantry game is a dangerous one to play! In this context, … 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!

8th Oct 2013

Eye luv tha grama poliz init? LOLz

8th Oct 2013

I had this and the sx220. I preferred the pictures from the 220, the ones from these had poor colour reproduction... I could have just had a bad item. but the colours it produced (from basic settings, on "P" mode, not any fancy "scene" or WB settings, in daylight) weren't that good for me.

8th Oct 2013

Great deal for this, just bought one as my SX220's lens got scratched.

8th Oct 2013

I got this for £99 a while back and I cant fault it. Excellent quality and zoom and I would happily pay this price for it.

8th Oct 2013

How does this compare with the Sony superzooms? I had a HX20V, and returned it due to the watercolour smearing of fine details. It did have fantastic stabilisation (best I've ever seen), and GPS too...

8th Oct 2013

thedeviants
Great camera but camelcamel says to me this was £107.98 a few months … Great camera but camelcamel says to me this was £107.98 a few months back. Still worth a go at this price but just to be clear

Strange, it tells me that £119.97 is the cheapest price ever.

8th Oct 2013

Anyone know if you can do this with this camera:

Your text here

I understand you need a remote, is that too advanced for this camera? Thanks for any replies.

8th Oct 2013

So compared to Panasonic TZ25, which one is better?

8th Oct 2013

I bought this camera in March and it is broken and back with John Lewis/Canon. It suffered from a common lens error - e32! Takes great pictures but very disappointed it developed a major fault so soon!

9th Oct 2013

MaximusRo
So compared to Panasonic TZ25, which one is better?

snapsort.com/com…Z25

9th Oct 2013

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http://snapsort.com/compare/Canon-SX240-vs-Panasonic-TZ25

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.

9th Oct 2013

Jefft
Videos are very jerky.

That's not the camera though the person holding the camera.

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.

10th Oct 2013

Aaron_QPR
That's not the camera though the person holding the camera. You zoom in … That's not the camera though the person holding the camera. 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.

10th Oct 2013

MaximusRo
I'm always surprised people recommend snapsort, as it is nothing more … 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.

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

10th Oct 2013

can anyone recommend a good value memory card for this camera?

10th Oct 2013

paragraph
I supposed actually you maybe mean a personal advice mainly, rather than … 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

13th Oct 2013

MaximusRo
You seem very sure of yourself, but you might be wrong, saying it's the … 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.

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.

13th Oct 2013

Aaron_QPR
On the Panasonic it's only 16x zoom not 20x so it's going to be better … 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...

13th Oct 2013

MaximusRo
Are you 100% sure that is the only reason and refuse to even consider the … 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...

I didn't say anything about refusing another camera just because this has 20x. Agreed it doesnt always mean a better camera just because a longer zoom.

The point I made is the more you zoom the less stability you will have, that's a simple fact on every camera.

Canon Powershot SX240 HS Digital Camera £119.97 @ Amazon

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