I have a few more questions.
1. Does it take good macro pictures?
2. What about landscape pictures?
3. How is the battery life? What batteries do you recommend?
Sorry for all the questions, it’s just that if I’m buying a new camera I want to make sure I get a good one that’s reliable.
Thanks for all your answers.
Tags: Camera, Canon, First, Good, PowerShot, Sx100, Time
Categories: Photography Tips
It is a decent starter p&s. Do keep in mind that it is a consumer level point and shoot, so you can not expect the same quality you see in magazines and from professional photographers.
1. No, it does not take good macro pictures. In fact it doesn’t take any macro pictures at all. Even worse – I haven’t seen a single camera that takes macro pictures, or any pictures… Now you can probably take some impressive macros with it. With 1cm minimum focus distance in macro mode – you can get very up close and personal. But don’t blame your camera. It’s you who takes the picture!
2. Same for landscapes – it can’t take them for you, but you may be able to take some nice ones. It is a bit long on the shorter end of zoom range. 36mm equivalent is a bit more than you may desire for great wide landscape shots. But it’s not too bad. I am assuming that you will not be doing the landscape photography professionally, so you should be ok.
3. Battery life – haven’t used that one, so I don’t know. But as to battery recommendation – definitely NiMH (Nickel-Metal-Hydrate) with a good charger (look for smart chargers).
4. The golden standard for printing is 300ppi. That’s 300 points per 1 inch of paper length of your printout. So in ideal perfect quality you will be able to print up to 8×10. However, you may go down to as little as 100ppi and still get decent results if the original image quality is very good. So at 100 ppi you will be able to print about 20×30 poster at marginal quality. The good news is – since nobody sticks their nose into this kind of posters, but rather look at them from the distance, you can very well get away with it. That said, I’d say that SAFELY you can print 11×12 enlargements, and beyond that is a gamble, given that this particular camera has a very tiny sensor, which will probably make some unpleasant noise/artifacts show up on anything larger.
Hope this helps,
LEM.