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Summary: Canon PowerShot Digital Camera
Comment: The Canon PowerShot Digital Camera TX1 7.1MP with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom was a Christmas gift to my husband from myself. My husband is a sound engineer and does frequent movies of his work. He absolutely loves the camera and has been going around filming everything! You should have seen his face when he opened his gift! Priceless! Also, the camera has some really neat features that I was unaware of when I bought it which was an absolute fun find for my husband.
One thing that can be offered with this product is a case. This is a product that you want around for a long time so having a case offered with the purchase would be an added bonus and a sure way to protect the camera from scratches, etc.
Thank you for a wonderful product!
Cynthia
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Summary: It survived a backpacking trip of nearly 6,000 miles (7 months)
Comment: Although it's not billing itself as rugged camera, it's impressive that it withstood my and mothernature's abuse for 7 months during my hike on the Continental Divide Trail.
PROS:
- Surprisingly durable, despite being in hot/cold/wet environments and being dropped several times.
- Incredibly light for an HD quality filming.
- Sliding "door" for the lens is nice to protect it.
- Price: great value.
CONS:
- Low light is so-so quality.
TIP: Make sure you have a high speed SDHC card or else it will timeout after 15 seconds of filming.
CONCLUSION: I did eventually break it after my hike when I got it completely wet. However, I would buy it again.
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Summary: OLAF's Review
Comment: During vacations, I want to shoot good quality pictures and some quick movie clips, thus I looked for a movie camera that fits in one hand & pocket, which is easy to use and shoots excellent digital pictures and pretty good movie clips. And: CANON's TX1 fit all those needs. Compared to my former Canon 5M ELPH, the TX1 shoots more colorful - not as hazy. The movie clips are actually "rolling" and not "stuttering". Sure, movies get grainy in-door / in low light situations, and sure you have to move slowly when taking movies (slowly zoom in and out). The 10x optical zoom reaches surprisingly far (I switched digital zoom off). While I like that the little screen rotates and automatically puts the pics on it's feet (you can "watch" yourself), it does not at all reflect the quality of the movie / picture taken. But, that doesn't matter much to me, since I have the habit to download, review and sort each day's pictures in the evening on my lap-top - for FaceBook and such. I bought a 16 GB SDHC card for it which is plenty for my daily picture and movie needs. I probably need around 1.5 to 2 GB a day. Battery - I can get through a day, but that's it. But, I have two batteries which I switch between. The 7.1 M pixel is plenty for my computer screen only usage. Downloading movies and playing those is no trouble at all, after downloading click on the movie clip and windows media player plays it just fine. All in all, a cute little film camera which takes very good pictures as well, ... for great vacation pictures and "quick and dirty" fun movie clips. ...
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Summary: quite impressive
Comment: Video quality is awesome in daylight. It is not that good in low light conditions, but 1- it is quite normal, 2- you cannot expect such a compact cam to behave like a $10,000 one.
One thing I dislike is that you cannot have 2 different image ratio settings for pictures and videos at the same time. Meaning once you switch to 16/9 you also shoot pictures in this mode.
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Summary: Good compromise, but too many sacrifices for me.
Comment: Okay so I bought this camera because I wanted something with the powerful zoom and image-stabilization of my S3 IS, but also portability and convenience of my Powershot SD 1000. I was hoping that Canon's TX 1 would fill that need perfectly, but for reasons I am about to stipulate, it did not, and I find myself carrying the other two 90 percent of the time. It's not that this camera isn't good - in fact, had I purchased this before either of the other two I would probably swear it was the greatest miracle on the face of the earth, but I have already used the other two cameras and when I use the TX 1 I find myself wishing that I had one of the others.
Compared with the S3 IS -
Cons:
1. the image stabilization doesn't work nearly as well since there is less room for the sensor to wiggle to accommodate your hand movement, and the lens being smaller lets in less light, forcing the aperture to stay open longer and therefore, increase the chance of blur.
2. The difference between a 10 power and 12 power zoom was negligible though, but unlike the S3, a zoomed-in, low-light shot is impossible for this camera, so in low-light you might as well have a 3 power zoom, because that's the most you're going to get out of it.
3. The autofocus is also much slower and misses more of the time, especially zoomed in or in low-light conditions.
4. You don't have the ability to set the focus point manually, like you do with the S3, and there are also no manual controls for f/stop or shutter speed like on the S3 - only ISO (which I limit at 200 or the shots are too ugly with noise).
5. The 1.7 inch screen is barely big enough to be able to properly frame a shot, but most of the time I just find myself frustrated with it's size.
Pros:
1. it does have a very neat function to manipulate the color setting of the picture AFTER you take it. So you can make every shot you take B/W, Sepia or any of the other options that the camera has. This is really great for me because I used to switch between modes quite a bit and always have a few shots that I wish I would have taken in another mode.
2. Video quality is superb (just like the S3) putting every other camera maker's video mode to shame. But the zoom and start/stop buttons are impossible to manipulate without shaking the camera significantly.
Compared to the SD 1000 -
Cons:
1. Although it probably doesn't seem like much, having to flip out the screen and wait for the lens to pop out is kind of a drag and I find myself not nearly as willing to pull it out for those spontaneous shots as I do the SD 1000, just not as convenient as you would think.
Synopsis -
Although I do think the TX 1 does a good job of filling the middle ground between these two cameras, I just didn't realize that I wasn't willing to sacrifice any of the features of the other two - what can I say, I'm spoiled! And overall if I could only have one of these three cameras for the rest of my life I would choose the S3 despite its conspicuous bulk.
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