Vitamin Funk

It wasn’t until I was at Burning Man this year that I really felt like I was doing the art, landscapes and people injustice capturing stills with my old Casio Elixim. Took about a week back of investigating various makes and models and a 10min trip to Best Buy to settle on the brand new Canon Powershot SX20 IS. This baby really has it all, or enough for an amature enthusiast like myself. Canon have always been great cameras for me with ease of use and amazing picture quality right out of the box. Lets hope this one goes the same way, for those who are also looking here’s a quick overview:

• 12.1 megapixels
• 20x optical zoom (super zoom!)
• Face detection
• 2.5 swivel LCD screen (super bright)
• Takes 4 AA batteries for easy swapping on the go
• HD Video (720p)
• Mini HDMI to HDMI port for easy viewing on your big screen

What it doesn’t have that the SX1 IS does have:

• 1080p video (found this to be useless since you’d need a gigantic SD card to shoot in that high resolution
• RAW support (Not being at the level of pro photographer yet I can’t see the application to get all of my images uncompressed, non-jpeg format)
• CMOS sensor (this one probably effects the image quality for the better since its found in Canon’s EOS Rebel cameras)

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