Review on 📷 Canon SX30IS 14.1MP Digital Camera with 35x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.7 Inch Wide LCD (Previous Version) by Wendy Backous

One of them is hanging on a board right outside my door. It has a very long 3/4 inch nylon strap with a small accessory pouch containing lens cleaners, a plastic pouch and an optional 32G SDHC memory card. I always add one of OptechUSA's neoprene pouches and the whole system hangs there begging me to take it with me wherever I go. The camera is so light that I found lugging around a monopod a waste of time and energy. I just put the thing in my palm and can easily keep it there for an hour. I love making HD videos with this babe. The controls on these cameras have been essentially the same for the last five years. The video is great and the audio performance is great. With 32G SDHC I think I'm getting about 7.5 minutes per gigabyte, so I've got about 4 hours of video if my batteries last that long. It has an adapter for an external flash which I never use but who knows what will happen tomorrow. The flash is pretty powerful and I use it a lot. The video performance is incredible. It has a small control to adjust the brightness of the video while it's running, and I've found this to be extremely useful in low-light situations. I often make videos on doors during church and you can get pretty decent pictures from 150 to 300 dpi video. The cool thing about recording video is that you don't have to keep the camera still the whole time and when you're watching a video you get 30 fps so you almost always have some pictures worth saving when You are relatively careful and calm with the camera. I bought an extra charger and battery and always take a new battery to the socket. I recorded up to 12 gigabytes of video with one battery. The battery and storage are in the same compartment, which is a bit awkward as you have to remove all the quick-release adapters to open the compartment. The good news is that 32G cards are easy to access and the batteries last long, so you'll never have to reach into that bay often with normal use. The zoom lens is quiet and smooth-running. It's not completely linear, but it's repeatable and easy to get used to. My only real issue is that using manual focus isn't easy. If you want to focus on an animal that is behind a bush, the only sensible thing to do is to focus on something else at that distance, hold the knob in its first position and move the camera to take the picture. However, I've had one of these since S2IS and as long as they keep improving it and selling it for $300-$400 I'll probably keep buying it.