Canon SX600 and Ixus 265 large well sealed zooms - The world of photography

The biggest zoom in the most compact, it is often difficult to resolve when Canon confronts early this year equation. The Ixus 265 HS PowerShot SX600 HS and have indeed common to propose quite thin body (22 and 26 mm respectively) and zooms impressive: 25-300 mm for one, 25 to 450 mm for the other .

The problem, say it right away is that these goals are particularly very bright. With f / 6.9 bottom zoom, the SX600 offers an opening date reserved for products decidedly entry-level, on the f / 7 Ixus 265 is to our knowledge a record in compact – but the kind of record that we usually try to avoid fight …

The rest of these devices is quite ordinary. BSI CMOS sensor their 16 Mpxl is no surprise, as their 3-inch screen and 460 kpts and both they film in 1080p at 30 frames per second and simply both a monaural sound – pity: he was a time when Canon offered stereo sound on the Ixus from the mid-range, with the late 220 HS for example. Other abandonment: manual control, systematic far on compact SX series SX600 and absent from

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We do not know their rates, but there is little doubt that these two models actually pretty pass unnoticed.

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