I have been actively playing with my new Canon PowerShot D10 12.1 MP Waterproof Digital Camera for about a week and truly like it. I have been employing Canon SLRs for 25+ ages, AE1 Plan, A1, Elan 7e, and Digital Rebel. When I began shopping for a waterproof photographic camera to take snorkeling, my first preference was Canon, dependent on my several ages of achievement with their products, and I was really lucky that this photographic camera was released two weeks just before leaving for holiday. (Amazon had been exhibiting the photographic camera as available for pre-order right up until previously nowadays. I obtained mine from a nearby photographic camera shop.)

I am really impressed while using the image good quality on this digital camera. The 12 megapixel sensor, coupled with a dozen shooting modes, create an exceptional appearance. I'm helpful to controlling aperture and shutter speed within the SLR, so simply choosing “portrait” or “night exposure” mode and letting the camera do each of the perform just would seem too quick. Or, if choosing “portrait” is as well hard, you'll be able to pick out “auto” and just allow the photographic camera do it all. Movie quality is also very very good. The LCD screen on the back from the digital camera looks substantial as opposed on the 1″ display screen on my old Digital Rebel. It really is a fantastic show.

The controls are conveniently arranged, and uncomplicated to work with, plus the associated icons displayed are equally informative and intuitive. It is possible to pick to screen all the settings or turn them off and just see the picture. One of many useful exhibit options is really a grid overlay about the screen to assist with attempted a double leg takedown composition plus the “Rule of Thirds.” The optical zoom works fantastic. Through the time you have to 12x with the digital zoom, the graphic is type of grainy, but that is for being predicted.

You can acquire macro photographs an inch or two out of your theme. I've had difficulty focusing my Digital Rebel from the dark, but Canon appears to be to possess enhanced low-light focusing rather a little. It has a guide concentration feature that indicates the distance for the theme because you adjust the concentrate, just in case it are unable to obtain the center appropriate.

I like the Panorama characteristic, which displays the past attempted a double leg takedown within the viewfinder whilst you're composing the future attempted a double leg takedown, permitting the photographer to closely match subsequent pictures, resulting in panoramic images with a smaller amount distortion when they're stitched with each other. Panorama mode also locks within the subjection worth of the very first shot so how the coverage in subsequent shots all match the 1st in for a double leg.

The deal with recognition and blink detection either seem to function well. As the camera focuses, it'll zoom in on among the faces so the photographer can confirm appropriate focus. Soon after the attempted a double leg takedown is taken, if a person blinked it'll identify the face of the man or women blinking so you can carry one more in for a double leg. These might be turned on or off according to user choice. Pictures look extremely crisp, which I attribute towards the graphic stabilization features, which can also be turned on or off.

I have had the camera inside the sink, and it handles six inches of drinking water without problems. I'll see how it does with thirty two and a 50 percent far more feet of drinking water when it meets the Atlantic Ocean in a couple of weeks! The wrist strap attaches to any on the list of four corners of the photographic camera (hassle-free for carrying in either left or proper hand) and looks being very protected, so no worries about sacrificing it if you have knocked around by a wave.

I use Photoshop Components, so I haven't loaded the Canon software and cannot comment on that. And due to the fact I edit shots on the computer system, I doubt that I'll use some of the in-camera editing features, just like black and white, sepia, shade swap, and the a variety of color enhancements. I could see that could well be beneficial to people that print directly from the digital camera, without editing on the computer system.

The digital camera does not permit you to shoot in RAW. I normally don't shoot in RAW with my SLR, so that doesn't get worried me. It's quite a few white balance modes, custom white balance, and vehicle white balance. It appears to perform an excellent task choosing the right shooting ailments in auto mode. Colours appear proper.

Several cons: The camera isn't threaded so you're not in a position to attach filters. There may be also no lens cap, and I feel concerned concerning the lens area having ruined. To get a rugged “adventure” digital camera, I am also astonished that there's no GPS chip to ensure shots is usually tagged while using precise area. I look at outdated slides taken while I was hiking and feel “that's neat, why can not I try to remember in which I took that.” It would be great when the EXIF info enclosed lattitude and longitude. (Observe Canon come out with all the Powershot D10 “Gold” six months from now that incorporates these features. The curse of being an early adopter.)

The microphone picks up every single movement your fingers make when you maintain the photographic camera, so it really is tough to capture shows without having some photographic camera noise. The speaker on the bottom in the photographic camera can also be hard to hear when playing motion pictures again about the camera, but films sounds okay when I pop the memory chip to the computer and observe in Quicktime. Movies are made from the .mov format, so you will have to do some conversion if you would like to accomplish everything with it in Windows Movie Maker. You may also decide on involving bigger quality 640 x 480, or decrease excellent 320 x 240. (I will need to post a video examine, but look like a dork in films, so I'll spare everybody that.)

Attempted to carry a number of infrared photographs, however the impression has the Hot Spot standard of numerous Canon cameras and lenses. I held a Hoya R72 filter around the lens and took many photos. Bright sunlight is all about a 4″ exposure, and all photos use a bluish circle within the center.

The disadvantages are really minor as opposed for the fantastic images this photographic camera generates.

I am quite impressed with this digital camera. It feels very sturdy, takes fantastic photographs, and looks extremely uncomplicated to make use of. Although I'll almost certainly continue to make use of my Digital Rebel as my major camera, I certainly appear forward to many ages of enjoyable with this camera.