Canon PowerShot SX270 HS - review
 Canon PowerShot SX270 HS - review |
Canon PowerShot SX270 HS is a little hard worker, but not without sin
You don't look a gift horse in the mouth, you know. That's it. It was a gift for my birthday. I can't say that it is expected. I had a little old Sony then, and I wanted the same, but brand new. Well, Sony turned out to be expensive for the donor.
This camera was not immediately impressed. The weather then was inclement, the pictures were not bright, and the sky remained just white in all the pictures without exception. Not even gray, and it was unnerving terribly (no processing, except for a cheap Photoshop, could not color the white colorless sky.
But after practicing for a day or two, I began to discover more and more good things. The optical zoom is stated to be x20, but the digital zoom is all 80! For such a small pocket camera - it's cool! Of course, you need a tripod or a fence at least, but the pimples of a beauty queen can be photographed from afar!
I am very pleased with the sharpness of the pictures, you don't have to worry about the automatic mode. In manual mode, it all depends on... No, not just by hand. From the lighting! Sometimes masterpieces turn out in the dark! In a well-lit area in general - just pictures, but in cloudy weather, at sunset or in bright sunshine - alas.
The color reproduction in artificial lighting does not deserve praise. But, I think, not only this camera. But what I would like to note is the "Sport" mode. Here the baby has no equal! Neither the previous Sony nor the Canon DSLR copes with this task better. With... this camera is much better! A series of pictures consists of 3-7 frames, and sometimes it is problematic to choose the clearest one - they are all clear! I once filmed a bike race from the window of a slow-moving car - I got more than a hundred frames, removed only 5 pieces at most.
The biggest drawback of the camera is a problematic battery. Even with a spare one, I know for sure that it will not withstand intense shooting. I don't see any point in buying a third ak, because I always have several cameras with me for long-term shooting, traveling or at events. This one helps out if you need long-range shooting, fast shooting, well, and it's faster to revive it - to put it on alert.
In principle, the camera is quite good for its price. I wouldn't buy one myself, but I won't change it either. So far, he often copes with the tasks set perfectly. The main thing is not to demand the impossible from a pocket camera (although so far, for 1.5 years now, it sometimes presents pleasant surprises) and to know exactly what it is capable of and what it is not.
One of the disadvantages is the lack of macro mode. Rather, it is there, but in an automatic order. I.e., if you need to remove the butterfly flower, then in auto mode you just approach the object, and the camera decides when to switch to macro. The quality of these macros does not suit me. If you drive off a little bit, then it's good, but not so detailed anymore.
There are portrait modes, fisheye, silent (silent), some other creative modes. But it's most convenient for me to have a car, that's why a small camera is needed to pick it up when there is no possibility to set it manually, or software: I set myself numbers, and take pictures to your health. Sometimes, when I have several cameras with me, I generally cheat - I select the optimal ratio on a large DSLR, set the same values on a small Canon in manual mode, and enjoy the result.
I'm not sure that this is a vice of the camera, but there was a case. Not a single photo from a 64 GB memory card opened, no matter how hard they tried. Either too much load on the camera, or the card got caught with a marriage, but the day, snapped in Paris, was gone forever.