Fremus.co.za » Photography http://www.fremus.co.za/blog Demistifying Life and Web Development Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:56:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 My new camera – Canon Powershot SX20 IS http://www.fremus.co.za/blog/2009/09/my-new-camera-canon-powershot-sx20-is/ http://www.fremus.co.za/blog/2009/09/my-new-camera-canon-powershot-sx20-is/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:51:32 +0000 fr3dr1k http://www.fremus.co.za/blog/?p=421 In a couple of months from now I will be going on a holiday and one of the holiday maker necessities is a digital camera. Initially I was interested in the Canon Powershot SX 200 IS, but after seeing and hearing about the flash mechanism that pops up, and could potentially break, I decided to take a look at the Canon Powershot SX 10 IS, which has a 20 optical zoom. After looking and inquiring about the camera, a salesman kindly informed me that the SX 10 is being replaced by the SX 20. So my attention was shifted to the SX 20, and here are some of the features that caught my eye:

  • It has a 20 Optical zoom which equates to a 28 mm zoom lens. This is more than sufficient for my holiday making needs, but it will also serve me very well after the holiday
  • It can capture video at 720p which is not full HD, but is good enough for me, because I do not see it as a video camera, although I will be using it to take a few videos
  • It has a feature that allows you to take full manual control of the camera, which means you get to understand some of the more advanced features. Its not just a simple point and click camera

Read about some of the other features on Canon’s website. The only other camera that I considered was the Canon PowerShot SX1 IS, but the only difference between the two from what I could see was that the SX1 had Full HD video capabilities, whereas the SX20 has 720p. The SX1 was also slightly more expensive.

So this morning I quickly went out and bought myself the camera, and I unboxed it and took a video. The only issue I had though was that the video’s native format is MOV which is QuickTime. Why do they use QuickTime? Now I have to do some conversion first before I can really use it. Anyway thats the only issue so far, and to solve it I managed to google a piece of freeware that converted it to MPEG. I uploaded it, which is also my first ever, to Youtube:

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