![]() Hello Everyone, How was your Mother's Day? Happy Mother's day to all the moms out there. I headed up to Rochester this weekend for a friends senior performance at Eastman (Great Job Champion), and I headed over to the Lilac Festival, so be on the look out for those photos coming up in the next couple days. Today I would like to take you on a little review and first impressions of my new camera the Cannon Powershot SX530 HS. I will do my best to explain some of the specification so that people that don't know how cameras work can understand as well, yay for learning! So one of the first things that I noticed when I opened this camera the first time was the size and the weight, more specifically the distribution of the weight. So as you can see from the photos, the camera on the left is the Cannon Rebel XS, it isn't terribly huge, but in comparison to this guy he is a bit bigger. The screen size difference is something that I immediately loved before I even had a chance to turn the camera on and see the quality of the screen (BTW It is pretty awesome) No more squinting at the screen you can really see the detail so the pictures. You will also see there isn't a viewing hole in the Powershot, you just use the screen. I kept trying to look through a hole that wasn't there yesterday... but as a glasses wearer it will make my life a bit easier. So weight wise the are almost identical, the Rebel XS is .99 lbs and the Powershot is .97. However the Powershot is a lot lighter. This is because it is more compact. The Rebel XS has the capability for interchangeable lenses so depending on the size of lens, but if you have just the body they are equal in weight. I like that it is lighter it will make it easier to keep photos level, and you won't have to worry about keeping the lens level. It isn't hard but a small convenience. ![]() So onto more detail oriented things. This camera is a lot more electronic in the fact that it does a lot of things for you. Instead of hitting a button and doing a quick adjustment on your own, it has settings you adjust in the actual settings. Some settings were a little bit harder to find at first because of this. The basic essence of photography is the capturing and recording of of light. The aperture is how wide of an opening the camera itself will make to let in light. How wide the width of the lens itself doesn't actually say how wide it will open, there is an adjustable layer with in the camera that you can make wider or narrower. The bigger the number of the aperture the smaller the opening within the camera. The way the increments you can open the aperture in a camera are measured by F-Stops. The Powershot has the ability to go from an F-Stop of F3.4 - F6.5, so it has the ability to make a pretty wide opening. Remember the smaller the number the larger the opening. The Rebel XS can go from a F5.6 to about an F8. So these each offer different things. The Rebel would be better if you were in an area that was highly exposed to light but that isn't to say the Powershot wouldn't do well too. The Powershot is better at lowlight. Another part of the camera used to capture light is the shutter. The shutter is the noise you hear when the picture is actually taken. That noise is the aperture closing, you can adjust how quickly the aperture shuts. The slower it is the longer the camera has to absorb and process the light, having it faster means there is less time. The shutter speed is measured in seconds The rebel is very nice because it has the ability to go from 1/3200 of a second to 30 seconds. It also has the capability to go into Bulb Mode. Bulb mode means the longer you press the camera button the longer it will stay open, so if you have an external timer, you can do exposures for minutes at a time. Doing so would mean it was very dark. This works well for night photos. So that's the slow end lets go to the fast end. 1/3200 of a second. I don't know what you be that fast. To put it in perspective the human eye blinks at rate of 1/3 of a second. So if you are capturing something that fast it has to be moving extremely quickly. The Powershot has a range of 1/3200 of a second again very fast to about 15 seconds. So while not as long, that is pretty dang good. ISO is the sensitivity of the internal workings of the camera to the light that you are working with. Have you ever seen a picture that looked really grainy? That is a case when the person had a photo that was to sensitive to the light. If I had a photo that I had a lot of light like on a bright sunny day I would want a low ISO like around 100 it if was really dark I would want something higher. The numbers go up bye two starting at 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600... The Rebel has the capability to go from 100-1600 while the powershot can go to 3200. A jump that is double the sensitivity. I think that is pretty cool. Clearly when you take a photo you want your subject to be in focus right? On the Rebel there was a manual focus you controlled on the end of the lens, or if you switched it to auto focus you could focus your image but half pressing the button. On the powershot it is all automatic, not sure how I feel about it yet. So far though all the photos I have been taking have been in focus so maybe I should just trust it right? One of my FAVORITE things about this new camera is the zoom capability of it. My Rebel XS had a zoom of 18mm to 55mm. It worked well for what I needed and I will continue to use it but... But the zoom on the new one.... oh my! This camera can go from 24mm to 1200mm. It is crazy far. And I can easily say that I am in love. I can get close up detailed images of things that are no where near me. Just to demonstrate. I took a photo down the side walk for fun. I couldn't see anyone, yes I had my glasses on still nothing. This is what the camera picked up. I literally could not see those people at all!. Sure it's not the best picture in the world but if my eyeball couldn't see them? I call that a win. Overall I am deeply impressed with this camera so far and am eager to continue using it. I hope you enjoyed this long detailed review, let me know your thoughts. Do you like the informational reviews? Or should we ditch them? What do you think of the camera specs? I would love to hear from you. If you made it this far below you will see a little slide show of some of the first pictures. Love, Katelyn
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