Review: Canon PowerShot SX400 IS. Digital camera

The choice of an inexpensive camera for home use in a budget class is not as simple as it seems. After all, it is the affordable segment that is full of almost identical products under different brands, to make a choice among which the buyer is to be selected. In such cases, professionals recommend trusting the surveys of the owners of digital devices that have had time to test the camera, reveal its advantages and disadvantages, leaving the media with the appropriate response. Canon PowerShot SX400 IS occupies a leading position both in sales on the domestic market and in the number of responses from users, so this article is devoted to it.

Famous brand

Canon is known for its products all over the world, its customers never had any complaints about its quality. Acquiring any digital camera under this brand, the user, along with great functionality, convenience and high quality, will receive many other useful additions. First, we are talking about the provision of an official two-year guarantee for all digital equipment. Camera repair Canon in most cases is free of charge in any service center of the company.

The owner of the device will not have problems with spare parts for repair or modernization of equipment. Having an official warranty card, the user can always purchase the necessary parts through a representative of Canon in his city. On the official manufacturer's website, the owner of the digital device will always be able to find the necessary software, as well as the updated firmware for his gadget.

First meeting

Digital camera Canon PowerShot SX400 IS is a representative of budget- class devices intended for home and creativity. Although outwardly, judging by the numerous reviews of the owners, it looks more like a mirror camera. It is this feature that attracts the attention of many potential buyers. The digital device is equipped with a full grip and thanks to it very conveniently lies in the right hand of the photographer.

The quality of the assembly and the material of the plastic cause only positive sensations. The case does not creak during operation, there is no play of the components of the camera, all mechanisms are efficient and do not cause any discomfort. True, in many reviews owners complain about the plastic plastic case - it quickly collects dust and fingerprints.

Index of Excellence

Many competitors can envy the standard equipment of the manufacturer: the camera Canon PowerShot SX400 IS, the battery and charger are supplemented with a lens cap and a carrying strap. Also in the box the user will find a lot of paper documentation: instructions, recommendations, brochures and certificates of quality. It would seem that there is nothing to complain about, but demanding buyers have discovered a number of minor shortcomings:

• There is no USB interface cable for connecting a compact digital device to a personal computer, because somehow you need to transfer images;
• There is also no video cable for viewing photos on the TV screen;
• Some users would like to see a spare battery included in the kit, but this is clearly overkill.

Difficulty controlling the buttons

Many potential buyers who want to own a digital device that looks like a SLR camera face problems managing the gadget. All the fault is the abundance of control buttons on the body of the device, which provide the camera with great functionality. It will help you to understand the instruction of the Canon PowerShot SX400 IS digital camera, which is included in the delivery package.

Negative feedback deserves only the lack of a touch screen in a compact camera. Managing the menu settings with the four-way joystick to many users is extremely inconvenient. Especially when you consider a huge set of functions that are controlled only from the main menu of the device and do not tie to the buttons. However, it is such a functional that is practiced in expensive mirror equipment. But the release of the bolt under the index finger of the right hand pleased all the owners of this camera.

Full automation

On the accessory of a digital device to an inexpensive segment often speaks functional, which is endowed with a camera. The compact Canon PowerShot SX400 IS is fully automated and does not give the user any opportunity to influence the exposure. Yes, the owner can increase the brightness of the picture, remove noise or improve the quality of shooting at night, but the control of the main components (shutter speed and aperture) is not available to him.

But this does not mean that a compact digital camera has become less functional, rather, on the contrary, the device is controlled by an intelligent system and to obtain a high-quality photograph the user only needs to press the shutter button. There are a lot of reviews, both positive and negative, on this topic. Even many professionals believe that the control of shutter speed and aperture increases the range of camera capabilities - without them, Canon's product is less attractive.

A grandiose deception

Canon PowerShot SX400 IS, whose price fluctuates between 8-10 thousand rubles in the domestic market, looks very similar to the representatives of the expensive line of mirror devices, and the manufacturer claims high quality of the photos, which can be obtained with a 16-megapixel sensor. Together, all these advantages can attract a stream of customers to the digital device, but only one indicator confuses even beginners who are poorly versed in digital technology.

And we are talking about the size of the matrix, which has no differences from those installed in cheap "soap boxes". After all, the era of races for megapixels has long ended, and all buyers know that the smaller the matrix, the worse the image quality. It turns out that a potential buyer can stop just one review: the Canon PowerShot SX400 IS is an ordinary compact soap box in a beautiful case.

Worthy optics

However, unlike cheap devices from the budget class, the compact camera is equipped with a huge lens, which hints to future owners on the creative features of the gadget. And then the manufacturer has something to be proud of:

• The lens has hardware image stabilization, which allows you to take photos in motion;
• There is an optical 30-fold zoom, which is supplemented by a digital zoom of up to 60 times thanks to the ZoomPlus pixel function;
• The focal length of the lens is 24-720 mm (in 35 mm equivalent);
• TTL focusing with 9-point measurement and face detection is used.

The autofocus control menu will appeal to even the most demanding user. Here the compact Canon PowerShot SX400 IS camera is not limited. The owner of the camera during the shooting can monitor the automatic focus, selecting the desired exposure, change the focus itself, controlling the metering points and make the distance and approach of objects directly during the exposure determination.

Another popular indicator

An important factor that determines the convenience of camera control is performance. The digital gadget Canon PowerShot SX400 IS performance characteristics is decent. The device is equipped with a very powerful processor, which is completed with many system cameras that work with high resolutions. Instant snapshots are complemented by the same fast video shooting, which starts in a few seconds after turning on the digital camera.

In their responses, many users note that with this compact digital device to remove unique shots it became easier - pressed the power button and you can immediately start working. Equipped with a camera and power saving function, because a powerful processor requires a lot of electricity. However, in the "ECO" mode, which is offered by the manufacturer to save battery power, the camera does not work as fast as many owners would like.

Care for the digital device

In the media, a lot of positive feedback from users about the work of service centers, which were repairing cameras. All, without exception, the owners of the digital device assure that representatives of the company in the shortest time solved all the problems of users, including the replacement of the lens, or the installation of a new matrix. From this side to the manufacturer there is not a single question.

Confused by another fact - a compact digital camera is very fragile and fails when falling, or a strong impact. Cheap "soapboxes" and expensive mirror devices do not have such problems. Professionals in their reviews say that it's all about the size of the device that does not correspond to the electronic filling built into the camera. The presence of emptiness in the body and leads to the fact that the impact of the components simply shifted.

Click on the button - you will get the result

This system of intelligent image processing actually controls the entire camera, which deserves a positive response from all owners. Canon PowerShot SX400 IS theoretically duplicates all the functionality of a mirrored digital device. The only difference is the absence of the right to interfere with the survey of the owner of the budget device.

Separate attention deserves digital effects, which are realized in the gadget at the hardware level: a fisheye, a toy camera, a miniature, a poster and many other useful functions. Recently, these effects are gaining popularity again, so the manufacturer has tried to provide its product with all the necessary functionality.

Finally

By the ratio of "price-quality" in the market of compact digital technology is difficult to find negative feedback. Canon PowerShot SX400 IS meets the needs of the most undemanding customers. Let it not provide a "shoe" for installing an external flash, which is constantly mentioned in the media. But the built-in flash has no analogues among budget devices - a leading number of 7 meters and a speed of 1/1600 seconds.

If we are talking about video shooting that is exposed to negative by many buyers because of the lack of support for FullHD, then anyone who is partially versed in physics will immediately realize that Canon's video quality will still be several times better for any representative of the budget Device. After all, for video shooting, the quality of the lens is not in the last place. Having the desire to cancel out any advantages of digital devices, but to eliminate negatives you will need the knowledge that all owners of Canon PowerShot SX400 IS have.