Canon sx10 manual focus

The "Custom Display" menu allows the user to fine-tune the items that can be displayed, with two banks of settings for each of the EVF and LCD screens. Each press of the DISP. With these settings, you can make the displays as spartan or cluttered as you desire, filling the screen with items such as shooting information, grid lines, a guide and a live histogram.

I didn't end up using it very much, given that the LCD screen was very capable even under extreme light conditions. The viewfinder is equipped with a diopter for eyeglass wearers, and it was easy to adjust the EVF to my eyes.

Long zoom. Play the video for an example of just what 28 - mm looks like. You can download the original Lens and Zoom. Canon continues to improve the design of this series of PowerShot, introducing a new mm-equivalent lens in the SX10 IS.

I don't think most users will notice this difference in speed. Immediately noticeable is the difference in angle; 28mm is quite wide for this class of camera, so much so that lens flare can become an issue, and Canon has thoughtfully provided a lens hood attachment with the camera.

The lens, benefitting from Canon's Ultrasonic motor, moves smoothly throughout, and is absolutely silent when zooming at a standard speed. High-speed zooming creates a little bit of noise, but the lens movement still feels smooth.

One of the largest ranges in an image-stabilized point-and-shoot digicam. The zoom performance deserves a bit more discussion. There are essentially five positions to the zoom dial, which is a dial that shrouds the shutter release button. Pushing the dial to the right zooms in, while pushing it to the left zooms out. There are two speeds of zoom, slow and fast, with the fast speed coming when the dial is turned to the extreme left or right.

The slow speed is achieved somewhere in the middle. I found fine-tuning the zoom position slightly frustrating, as the slow speed wasn't slow enough; what would be useful would be a third speed selection to allow for a slow, medium, and fast zoom speed. It's certainly not a deal-breaker for this camera, but enough that I wished it could be just a bit more sensitive. Optical quality. The Canon SX10 IS's lens is sharp in the center at wide and telephoto, and remains surprisingly sharp out to the far corners, rare for a lens of this type, with only a very limited amount of softening that does not show up in all but the largest prints.

At wide-angle, the Canon SX10's 28mm setting shows moderate barrel distortion, but it's not out of the ordinary for this type of lens, and is not a detriment to most photos. Impressively, there's virtually no distortion in telephoto settings. The only real shortcoming of the SX10's lens is the high and bright chromatic aberration that appears at both wide angle and telephoto, and extends fairly far into the frame.

It's noticeable in printed images at 8x10 sizes and up. Again, this is very common among extreme zoom lenses, and if it proves to be objectionable, it can be removed after capture with aftermarket image software. There is considerable distortion at this distance, however, so prepare to crop from the center and provide light from the sides rather than from the flash.

Using the flash is pretty much out of the question in macro mode, as the lens itself shades the output of the flash. The SX10 IS's hot shoe comes in handy here, as you could attach remote flashes and position them any way you wish. Start up is a little slower than the S5 IS 2. There's very little shutter lag throughout the focal range, though the SX10 IS is a hair slower to autofocus; in manual focus, however, the Canon SX10 IS's shutter response is very quick, at just over a quarter-second.

Prefocused shutter lag was just under 0. In single shot mode, you'll wait up to 2. For continuous shooting, the SX10 IS can achieve 0. This improves to 1. Still, the SX10 is no speed demon is this department. The Canon SX10 IS comes bundled with 4 AA alkaline batteries, which you should immediately relegate to another electronic device or to the junk drawer for emergencies only, since you'll only get about shots from alkalines, if you're lucky.

You're much better off picking up rechargeable NiMH batteries and a charger. The latter delivers, according to CIPA standard, about shots per charge -- a much better deal indeed. Face Detection. Canon's Face Detection technology seems to be one of the better systems on the market and it works eerily well on the Canon SX10 IS in detecting faces.

The SX10 IS will detect faces easily when the face is pointing directly at the camera, but it will also continue to track and detect faces when they're pointing away -- a bit more than thirty degrees. The camera will place squares around detected faces, but it seems to want to stick to about three, even if there are more.

This can lead to a confusing jumble of boxes onscreen, which you can attempt to reign in with the face detection selection button, allowing you to decide upon a single face to center autofocus results. While it's a marvelous technology, I sometimes found it easier to simply move the AF point to my subject's face. In short, face detection is probably most effective at three people or less; for group shots, stick to more conventional focus methods.

Autofocus was generally fast and accurate, even under low light conditions. In most situations the camera will assist is focusing efforts by turning on a subtle green focus lamp. Noise creeps in as you increase the sensitivity, but it's only by ISO that it becomes objectionable in larger-sized prints.

ISO 1, and ISO 3, should be reserved only for absolute necessity, as image noise becomes extremely objectionable and details are almost muddy. ISO 3, can only be selected in a specific scene mode, and produces a 2-megapixel image of 1, x 1, pixels. All of these worked well to deliver generally even exposures, however the camera doesn't hesitate to clip highlights. Colors were well-saturated, delivering the vibrant images that consumers have come to expect from non-digital-SLR cameras.

Flash output. The pop-up flash on the SX10 IS is actually a pull-up flash; you have to raise it with a finger when you want to use it. Flash coverage is uneven at wide angle, and even at telephoto. And though the manufacturer spec called for good telephoto performance at only 9.

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Apr 30, 1 Does anyone else with this camera have this problem? Apr 30, 2 OK - why do you want to use MF? Apr 30, 4 Also, when it comes to the AF frame size, Does it make a difference in how much it focuses on?

Apr 30, 5 If the smaller box isolates whatever you're focusing on the only thing you'd get from using a larger AF box is an increased chance of missing focus because the camera focused on something else in the scene. Apr 30, as a reply to Jon's post 6 I do sometimes set the camera's manual focus to infinity for certain distant shots.

Apr 30, 7 I have used it a few times when the camera tries to focus on the wrong thing, ie. May 02, 9 One time I used manual focus to good effect was at a bike race.

Same here.