Canon's new wide-angle compact
The all-new Canon compact range
Canon’s spring product line shake-up continues with the impressive SX210 IS, a high-zoom wide-angle compact packed with the latest camera tech.
It replaces the existing SX200 IS – a handy performer in its own right – building on its foundation to set the bar even higher at the luxury end of the compact scale.
Its headline feature is a huge 14x optical zoom lens, which starts at 28mm and goes all the way to a near-telescopic 392mm. You get 14.1 megapixels of resolution real-estate, along with the Digic 4 processor found in several of Canon’s D-SLR.
720p video recording may now be a standard feature on more well-to-do compacts, but the SX210 IS ups the stakes by letting you use that super-zoom range for your clips, and throws in stereo sound recording as a bonus too.
We’re pleased to see that its long features list includes a Manual mode for full creative control alongside all the other more standard shooting modes and presets.
The SX210 IS goes on sale next month for a suitably premium price of £359.
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MattSwain09 February 2010
Canon continue to frustrate me with their compact cams. On one hand they give all of the manual controls and then on the other they only give a 28mm lens when the likes of Panasonic start at 25mm. Once you've used a SLR with a true wide angle lens I'd find this quite limiting, especially when the camera costs over 300 quid.
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