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Need to buy a camera under 300$. SX230 HS or SX260 HS

Started Mar 3, 2013 | Discussions thread
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Re: Need to buy a camera under 300$. SX230 HS or SX260 HS

irportal wrote:

ithehappy wrote:

Thanks mate.

Well I don't think S95/S100 has that much better IQ to give up on the 400% extra OZ of SX240 or even more of SX40, am I wrong?

That depends on your mileage sir. Ask yourself how often do you need 400% zoom versus a nice close up photos. The sensor is twice as big in S line, so the images will be that much better/clearer. 24mm-100mm is not bad, you will get a good room full of people and great IQ. Due to the sensor size, you will be able to crop to an equivalent of a 200mm shot and still have the same IQ as the SX240. So while you are only giving up almost half the zoom, you are gaining so much in IQ for landscape photos, for portraits, for dinner table photos, group photos, party photos. Not to mention larger sensors have much better low light performance.

The linear dimensions of the S100 sensor is app. 22% larger than the SX40/SX240 sensor (= app. 48% larger area), which can be translated to a bit more than half a stop better high ISO performance. And no, you can't just crop the S100 image and get the same result as with the SX240 at twice the equivalent FL. If using 2x digital zoom on the S100 you'll end up with a 3mp image (upsampled in-camera to 12mp), and a 12mp SX240 image will be much better than a 3mp crop from the S100.

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