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
Thats fantastic. Can't wait to get my hands on this camera. Video sample looked incredible too. I remember my 1st camera, a canon that took 10 seconds of i think 15 FPS video @ 230x340 I believe. If you didn't move it around too much and it didn't have to record too much data and you got lucky, it might go as long as 30 seconds. Ridiculous.