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Two important camera features Canon PowerShot Talk

Started May 7, 2019 | Discussions thread
RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,428
Re: Two important camera features Canon PowerShot Talk

CMCM wrote:

I've really wondered what the difference might be between Digic 5, 6, 7 and 8. I've had the impression that Digic 8 is needed for 4K video, but to tell the truth, I haven't come across a discussion of the various Digic versions and what they do.

https://snapshot.canon-asia.com/article/en/5-things-made-possible-with-digic-image-processor

Smarter cameras are better cameras...

AWB (How smart... Accurate, it makes a determination. Also, newer DIGIC7 and all DIGIC8's support the newer AWB-W btw)

FPS (the ability to digest what the camera can drive anyways)

AF (speed and accuracy)

Eye AF

Low Light AF (part of it, the other half being the sensor / how much light the lens mounted is drawing in)

Noise reduction improvements (DIGIC6 was "the big one". Moving to DIGIC6 or newer from anything before it, is a huge difference in SOOC JPEG noise)

Metering (the newer DIGIC8 is a lot better here, and it was already good before DIGIC8)

4K (yup)

In-camera corrections, including your SOOC JPEGs, not just in-camera RAW

Picture profiles including improved sharpness algorithms

JPEG color response (they tweak things from time to time which gets bundled with the DIGIC processor software at the time the camera ships)

Automatic detection of scene type (if using Auto)

Dual IS which is merely the sensor now acts as a datapooint for the gyro sensors in-lens giving IS systems better accuracy. Think small, but added benefit to IS

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