330 HS ?

brianj wrote:

know wrote:

One thing thats always puzzled me is that year after year canon updates each model, at least in the lower price ranges with a successor thats always worse than it's predecessor. It's stunning how consistent they are at that because you would think after a few years they'd be so bad they'd never sell another. And i kept thinking to myself they have to break the trend now and then and do true upgrades that really shine or they'd downgrade themselves right out of the P&S business. Thats the only thing that kept me looking at canon all these years....the thought that they must break that trend or die. So i always look at the latest models with that glimmer of hope in mind and it never materialized till now. When i started reading about the 330 and seeing the galleries, I began to realize this is the one, they finally did break that trend ! It's about time. I fear we may see another 10 years of downgrades tho ! For me no big deal tho, as in 10 years i'll be either dead or too old to care. Hopefully the 330 will last me till then.

Yes, and I think canon frighten themselves too, because they know that a small pocket gem that makes to same pucture as their own S and SX models selling for 2-3 times as much is a real problem, so best to dumb it down for a while.

The thing that attracted me to the 330 was that I owned a SX260 that I thought was fantastic, but the lens assembly failed with errors, so when stevenic demonstrated his 330 I investigated and found that it contained the same sensor and DIGIC5 chipset as the SX260, except that it had a different lens assembly, 24-240 instead of the superzoom 25-500. I realised that it should be able to produce the same quality images, and it does.

Brian

I completely agree! I think Canon did scare themselves with the 330 by making a very inexpensive camera that produces IQ almost on par with the S-series (definitely on par in the right hands!) and certainly equal to the more expensive SX-cameras. The 340 sure seems to be their effort at correcting the mistake of making the 330 as good as it is. I'm hanging on to mine for sure!

Andy