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212 of 214 persons found the following review helpful.
Finally, a “full service” waterproof camera for all those fun-filled vacations, let the kids go crazy!
By Anjana Nigam
So some of our family’s vacations are at beaches, lakes, water-parks, or hikes and bringing along the sensible digital camera has always been a problem. If I carried it then I could not get in water and I expended more time worrying whether the sand would harm it than taking pics of my family. I lost a camera on a Disney Park fun ride when water abruptly splashed into the ride and we were miserable for losing all our pics. With this camera you may drop it in water and not worry regarding your pics unless you lose the camera (happened to me another time when I fell overboard and dropped a camera in the open sea). I have other cameras that I have been too lazy to review but I am excessively affected emotionally regarding this one so I sat down to write this review.
347 of 359 humans found the following review helpful.
Great waterproof camera
By D. Bell
I’ve been playing with my new Powershot D10 for with regards to a week and in truth like it. I have been using Canon SLRs for 25+ years, AE1 Program, A1, Elan 7e, and Digital Rebel. When I started looking for a waterproof camera to take snorkeling, my original choice was Canon, based on my some years of gratification with their products, and I was very lucky that this camera was freed two weeks before leaving for vacation. (Amazon had been showing the camera as available for pre-order until earlier today. I purchased mine from a local camera store.)
I’m very impressed with the picture quality on this camera. The 12 megapixel sensor, coupled with a dozen shooting modes, formulate an magnificent image. I’m used to controlling aperture and shutter speed on the SLR, so merely selecting “portrait” or “night exposure” mode and letting the camera do all the work just seems too easy. Or, if selecting “portrait” is too difficult, you may select “auto” and just let the camera do it all. Movie quality is likewise rather good. The LCD screen on the back of the camera seems huge equated to the 1″ screen on my old Digital Rebel. It’s a great display.
The controls are conveniently arranged, and easy to use, and the affiliated icons displayed are both informative and intuitive. You may choose to display all the settings or turn them off and just see the image. One of the utile display choices is a grid overlay on the screen to aid with shot composition and the “Rule of Thirds.” The optical zoom works great. By the time you get to 12x with the digital zoom, the effigy is kind of grainy, but that’s to be expected.
You may take macro photographs an inch or two from your subject. I’ve had disturb focusing my Digital Rebel in the dark, but Canon seems to have bettered low-light focusing rather a bit. It has a manual focus feature that suggests the distance to the subject as you adjust the focus, just in case it can’t get the focus right.
I like the Panorama feature, which displays the former shot on the viewfinder while you’re composing the next shot, permitting the photographer to closely match subsequent shots, resulting in panoramic photos with less distortion when they’re stitched together. Panorama mode also locks in the exposure value of the firstborn shot so that the exposure in subsequent shots all match the primary shot.
The face acknowledgement and blink detection both seem to work well. As the camera focuses, it will zoom in on one of the faces so the photographer may verify rectify focus. After the shot is taken, if somebody blinked it will tell apart the face of the person blinking so you may take another shot. These may be turned on or off according to user preference. Images seem very crisp, which I attribute to the effigy stabilization features, which may likewise be turned on or off.
I’ve had the camera in the sink, and it handles six inches of water with no problems. I’ll see how it does with thirty two and a half more feet of water when it meets the Atlantic Ocean in a few weeks! The wrist strap attaches to any one of the four corners of the camera (convenient for carrying in either left or right hand) and seems to be beauteous secure, so no worries with regards to losing it if you get knocked over by a wave.
I use Photoshop Elements, so I haven’t loaded the Canon software and can’t comment on that. And since I edit photos on the computer, I doubt that I’ll use galore of the in-camera editing features, such as black and white, sepia, color swap, and the respective color enhancements. I could see that would be utile to those who print directly from the camera, without editing on a computer.
The camera doesn’t grant you to shoot in RAW. I in general don’t shoot in RAW with my SLR, so that doesn’t worry me. It has a number of white remainder modes, habit white balance, and automati white balance. It seems to do a good occupation selecting the rectify shooting conditions in automati mode. Colors appear correct.
A couple of drawbacks: The camera isn’t threaded so you’re not competent to attach filters. There’s likewise no lens cap, and I worry in regards to the lens surface getting damaged. For a rugged “adventure” camera, I’m likewise astonished that there’s no GPS chip so that photos may be tagged with the precise location. I look at old slides taken while I was hiking and think “that’s neat, why can’t I do not forget where I took that.” It would be nice if the EXIF data included lattitude and longitude. (Watch Canon come out with the Powershot D10 “Gold” six months from now that incorporates these features. The curse of being an early adopter.)
The microphone picks up each motion your fingers make as you hold the camera, so it’s difficult to capture movies without a great deal of camera noise. The speaker on the bottom of the camera is likewise difficult to listen when playing movies back on the camera, but movies sounds fine when I pop the memory chip into the computer and watch in Quicktime. Movies are devised in the .mov format, so you’ll have to do a good deal of conversion if you want to do anything with it in Windows Movie Maker. You may likewise choose amidst higher quality 640 x 480, or lower quality 320 x 240. (I will have to post a video review, but look like a dork in movies, so I’ll spare every one that.)
Tried to take a few infrared photos, but the effigy has the Hot Spot typical of numerous Canon cameras and lenses. I held a Hoya R72 filter over the lens and took assorted shots. Bright sunlight is in regards to a 4″ exposure, and all shots have a bluish circle in the center.
214 of 225 people found the following review helpful.
Water leaked in
By Roy Messer
I was disappointed in the fact that the camera does not have a setting for action shots. Used it for original time in Hawaii as I stood in the surf and took photos of son standing on boogie board. Generally the photos for other circumstances are good.
Really disappointed when I applied the camera in just two feet of water, just to take a photo of my son ducking his head underneath the water. The next day the camera was kaput, with the watching screen evidently damaged by water. The areas inside the battery compartment and USB port appeared to be dry, so the water apparently came in elsewhere. Leaving these camera doors open dried out the screen, and the camera would turn on but work no further than that.
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