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Powershot A1400 any good?

Started Dec 30, 2013 | Discussions thread
Gary Barnett
OP Gary Barnett Senior Member • Posts: 1,083
Re: Powershot A1400 any good?

I2K4 wrote:

My experience was with the A1200 which I broke. To me the "any good?" question starts with the build quality, since I don't know of any other Canon that would have broken so easily or has the almost toy-like plastic of this line of camera. Since breaking my A1200 I got an LG smartphone with a mediocre smartphone camera. It's just about on the plane of A1200 for image quality, though fewer pixels. I would not buy this line of camera with the money it would take to upgrade a smartphone, except for one single thing: it has an OVF. I replaced my broken A1200 with a much better and even smaller Ixus 300 at $130, but it's all LCD. I do miss the OVF.

Eventually I'll get something in the G15 line of cameras to get an OVF, but would rather spend on a good smartphone than the plasticky A1400 series.

Ok my question was that if it is a good shooting camera, I'm not bothered about the build quality.  I bought Powershot A3400 last summer and despite having the same lens/sensor as A1400, the images it took was so inferior to my Powershot A495 that I returned it to the shop, even after lower the resolution for a fair comparsion.  Recently I read few online reviews which have confirmed that.

With the same sensor/lens combination as A3400, A1400 took me by surprise and the images it take are just as great as A495 despite having higher megapixel sensor.   I can't point it to why but it seems that there is something more to do with image processing beyond the sensor/lens combination.

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