Review on 📷 Capture Stunning Moments with the Canon PowerShot ELPH 340 HS Digital Camera – Wi-Fi Enabled (Purple) by Gent Dobson

Nowadays, many people use the cameras built into smartphones to take photos and videos. After all, my Galaxy S4 has a 16-megapixel camera and can record HD video, geotag photos and post them to Facebook, all on one device, so why would I need a separate, standalone digital camera at all? 12x optical zoom. Yes, digital zoom can be used on the phone, but this reduces the image quality and "fills in" gaps. The optical zoom actually zooms in on the subject at full 16MP resolution. This way your photos of distant objects will still show all the details and won't look quite blocky or blurry. The real question is: how good is this camera? It takes pretty good handheld night photos (although a tripod still takes the best shots) and high-speed (daytime) photos. The camera itself is good at detecting light and focusing, but you can always choose different shooting modes like fireworks, sunset, portrait, etc. In addition, it has some interesting modes, such as Slo-Mo mode, which records lower resolution videos at 240 frames per second, and some image post-processing modes. I don't use the latter because I can transfer the recordings to a PC if I wish and edit them with the free GIMP software. high speed photography. It also has a nice macro mode that lets you zoom in to photograph flowers, for example. It also handles 1080p HD video well and keeps the video fairly smooth even when you zoom in and out while recording. It also uses standard Micro SDHC memory cards, giving you plenty of cheap storage space for your photos. The camera itself does NOT use AA batteries, but Canon batteries are around $10 each at Revain and last quite a while. If you have an Android (or presumably iOS) phone, the software is pretty easy to use. For example, if you want to geotag your photos (i.e. add where they were taken), the app can "register the location". Do this before taking any photos, and when you're done, stop the log. You can then use the app to connect to the camera and update the images within the time range of the log so they have a position in the images. You can also transfer these photos to your phone in their full resolution or resize them if you use them on Facebook or Pinterest. The app works very well, but less-technical users may need more help using it. All in all, this is a quality point-and-shoot digital camera that works fairly well with smartphones and expands your photographic possibilities. And if you don't have a smartphone, the camera does a good job of taking digital shots and sorting them on a memory card by month, week, or day. I recommend this camera to all casual photographers who want to get quality digital photos without spending a dime on a camera.