Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS / IXUS 1100 HS Review

12.1MP | 28-336mm (12X) Zoom | $269/£262

The Cannon 510 HS (IXUS 1100 HS in Europe) is a small, fashionable point-and-shoot picture photographic digital camera that's loaded with engineering. Main features include a 12x noticeable contact with an efficient main range of 28mm-336mm, a backlit CMOS indication with a highest possible possible result quality of 12MP and a 3.2 inches wide wide touchscreen display screen show observe LCD, which is main to the electric digital camera's function. Although Cannon has lately energized its PowerShot choice, the ELPH 510 HS, launched delayed last year still features a impressive function set.

Key Features:

• 12x zoom (28-336mm equivalent)
• 12.1MP back-illuminated CMOS sensor
• ISO 100-3200
• 3.2in, 461k-dot PureColor II Touch LCD
• Powered IS Smart Auto (32 scenes)
• High-speed Burst (7.8fps) and Super Slow Motion Movie
• iFrame movie
• Movie Digest (combines still images with short video clips)
• Creative modes
• Hints & Tips
• Weight (with battery): 206g / 7.27 oz.
• Dimensions: 99 x 59 x 22mm (3.9 x 2.3 x 8.7in)

The 510 HS comes engaged with a traditional power and battery power pack battery power charger, a USB wire, hand team and a printed getting started details. A full digital details is offered on a CD along with Electronic Photo photographic digital camera Solution Hard drive drive v. 93.0 JEC software, such as ZoomBrowser 6.8 for Windows, ImageBrowser 6.8 for Mac along with Photo photographic digital camera Show DC 8.6 and PhotoStitch 3.1/3.2. You'll need an SD/SDHC/SDXC bank cards and, if you want to show off your pics and vids on an HDTV, choose up a mini-HDMI hook up.

Available in gold, shiny black or red, the fashionable 510 HS actions a simple 3.9 x 2.32 x 0.86 inches wide extensive wide, and at 7.27 oz. (206g) with power and storage space space, it goes easily into most pouches. As predicted, there's no noticeable viewfinder but the 461,000 dot, 3.2-inch LCD is shiny, clear and useful under almost all illumination circumstances. As a contact board, the 510's LCD reacts to tap or contact (you can change the screen for maximum possible responsiveness) and symptoms are large and easy to understand. When allowed, the built-in help provides brief but useful details of the electric digital camera's various ways.

Handling and Operation

	The ELPH 510 HS is impressively slim given its 12x optical zoom but fits comfortably in the hand.
	Operation is centered around a touch-sensitive screen on the rear of the camera, but the screen response could be better, making setting certain functions and navigating the 510's menu system more frustrating on occasion than it should be.
	The ELPH 510 HS is compatible with Canon's $149 HF-DC2 flashgun, which is attached via a clamp to the side of the camera and triggered automatically by the built-in flash.

Although the touchscreen is reasonably responsive (to the extent that touching it almost always causes something to happen), scrolling through the vertical Function and Menu lists is laggy, frustrating and nowhere near as fluid as using a typical touchscreen smartphone. It does have its advantages though, including convenient touch-to-focus and touch-to-capture functionality (the latter can be turned off if you prefer to use the mechanical shutter release).

Since the ELPH 510's operation is so heavily dependant on its less than perfect touch-sensitive screen, it often takes longer to change settings than it might with a more traditional button-driven interface. On the plus side the GUI is customizable to an extent. I added ISO and white balance to the main screen for example since those are two of the settings I adjust most often. A Function option (also onscreen, available by touching the FUNC icon) is available to adjust white balance, ISO, metering, exposure compensation, among other settings but you'll still have to go to the main menu to change autofocus mode, activate red-eye correction, apply the wind filter and many other functions.

The ELPH 510 HS is a slim camera which packs a powerful punch in the form of a 28-336mm (equivalent) optical zoom. Not only is this lens useful from the point of view of its versatility, but also sharpness is high throughout the zoom range.

The only actual physical manages on the 510 are the play-back option on the coming back board and the shutter/zoom handle combination, on/off option and a toggle change to shift between automobile and non-auto getting techniques. Moreover to Program, Computerized or the traditional landscapes techniques, the 510 also features a range of exciting alternatives such as Film Process, which details a film for each taken you take to make a recognizable book of a daily getting and Sensible Shutter, which can be developed to take pictures when your subject goes into the form or winks or satisfaction.

The picture photo photographic camera also features a high-speed rush function of 7.8 can handle per second (at 3 megapixels) and gradually action movie cut. When set to Best Image Choice, the picture photo photographic camera produces a sequence of 5 pictures (again at a reduced quality of 3 megapixels) and then instantly chooses the best taken. Practical night landscapes also details a sequence of pictures and provides together them to get the best revealed, least uncertain picture. For fun, there are computer design like fisheye, small, and toy picture photo photographic camera, which can also be used in movie cut function.

Source:www.dpreview.com

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