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

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…

Having owned this camera for a while I feel much better able to judge its pros and cons. To me, this camera succeeded a full-size SLR, including a 75-300mm zoom lens that weighed a ton and was very bulky. The entire kit cost me over $900 to assemble and was very unwieldy, especially when you were trying to switch between close-up and long-distance photography and had to constantly switch lenses. For professional photographers who can get used to it and might even prefer it, this is fine. But…

I got this camera to replace my Panasonic FZ-35. After taking a few hundred shots, including a few side-by-side comparisons with the FZ-35, here's my impression. Canon's image processor is far better than the FZ35 at color balance and overall image capture - images are brighter and therefore capture more detail that's otherwise lost in shadows, or the FZ35 simply tends to process greyscale to achieve the excellent sharpness that the FZ35 is known for. However, I would not recommend using the…