Xentrax
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A650 is better but heavier than my previous Canon A710 IS. With larger sensor size, 12M pixels crammed into it produce about the same amount of noise as A710.
Because of larger sensor they had to use larger lens to achieve same zoom range as in A710.
IS works perfectly.
I try to use camera at ISO80, ISO400 is unusable, still it will do for 4"x6" prints.
Screen is not protected well so you have to turn the screen up side down each time you turn off the camera. Display quality is really good.
Camera uses 4 AA batteries instead of 2 as in A710, seems that it has improved flash charge time.
Camera is heavy and big but it lacks ability to use neck strap.
Problems:
Materials and build quality are worse than in A710. Not really painfull.
Its menus are really harder (slower) to use. For instance, to enable/disable flash you had to press Flash button only once on A710, but on A650 first press just opens Flash Mode selection Pop Up window. And second press changes current mode. Terrible.
Camera does not support 1024x768 video resolution. Why have swivel screen if you still need separate video camera?
Slow sync is available from menu only. But they have dedicated ISO button. Silly.
As in all P&S cameras slow autofocus, but because of small sensor ot has big depth of field so
Because of larger sensor they had to use larger lens to achieve same zoom range as in A710.
IS works perfectly.
I try to use camera at ISO80, ISO400 is unusable, still it will do for 4"x6" prints.
Screen is not protected well so you have to turn the screen up side down each time you turn off the camera. Display quality is really good.
Camera uses 4 AA batteries instead of 2 as in A710, seems that it has improved flash charge time.
Camera is heavy and big but it lacks ability to use neck strap.
Problems:
Materials and build quality are worse than in A710. Not really painfull.
Its menus are really harder (slower) to use. For instance, to enable/disable flash you had to press Flash button only once on A710, but on A650 first press just opens Flash Mode selection Pop Up window. And second press changes current mode. Terrible.
Camera does not support 1024x768 video resolution. Why have swivel screen if you still need separate video camera?
Slow sync is available from menu only. But they have dedicated ISO button. Silly.
As in all P&S cameras slow autofocus, but because of small sensor ot has big depth of field so