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Powershot A650 review

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Bas Hamstra Senior Member • Posts: 2,070
Powershot A650 review
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Well, not quite serious but I bought one with underwater house apparently up till 40 meters. Ok then I got in nostalgia mode, I remembered that my A630 lens could do a nice bit of background blur when pushed, so I had to try and here it goes:

Kind regards,

Bas

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OP Bas Hamstra Senior Member • Posts: 2,070
Comparison with MFT + 20/1.7 (sort of)

Actually the BG's are kind of different and when too close up, perspective distortion kicks in. I know that the 20/1.7 is not exactly a portrait lens of course.  Just messing around getting a feel for the blur I can get in portraits.

Too close, distortion

Bas Hamstra wrote:

Well, not quite serious but I bought one with underwater house apparently up till 40 meters. Ok then I got in nostalgia mode, I remembered that my A630 lens could do a nice bit of background blur when pushed, so I had to try and here it goes:

Kind regards,

Bas

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AdamT
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One of my Fave Powershots
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One of my Fave Powershots, a nicer and more useful camera than the G9 (the other 12Mp PS) .. the only downer is that it didn`t shoot RAW but othewise punched far above its weight . have Hundreds of shots from the A650IS .. my all time fave Pre- G1X PS is the G10 which was a RAW resolution monster (the G11/12/15/16 were downgrades IMO) but the A650IS was the super-value practical one of the series

Just in case someone wants to see what it looks like - this was the second one I had .

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