Canon PowerShot N, evidence of micro - Wired.it

We tried the new compact Into the Japanese. Here are our impressions

The new compact Canon is a super compact. Lightweight and small fits comfortably in any pocket. Not the one where you find the smartphone, but one of the other. The opportunity is clearly to allow the user to use a compact camera (78.6 x 60.2 x 29.3 mm) and intuitive addition to its own smartphone .

Of course it is not, and is not intended as an additional product Walking aimed at professional photographers. For that customer segment Canon offers solutions of the highest level that maintain the high reputation. It can not, however, be considered even a product dedicated to amateur photographers, considering the will of those who is even marginally interested in photography to influence the outcome of its images beyond the basic automation.

The impression is therefore that the choice made with the launch of this new product has been turn to who has aspirations details towards their photographs and that could use this compact precisely the same way as a smartphone, but to share Images shot you need to connect to other devices: the same mobile phone or computer, and to print them is easy to connect with Canon printers dedicated.

compensating the impossibility for the PowerShot N to make calls or send text messages with the inclusion of a 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor that maintains a good quality even at high sensitivities of the file, there remains the concern about the reasons that might prompt us to adopt two devices, wanting to still stay in the field of photography, does not enable it to express themselves as would be desired by the launch of a new product that could give much more in addition to the functions change your snap into 1000 very easy and fun ways .

The PowerShot N boasts a whole range of creative options have become famous thanks to the filters used by applications such as Hipstamatic, Instagram and similar fish-eye effect, Miniature Effect, effect toy camera ; soft focus with the soft focus effect and monochrome (black and white, sepia and blue toning). The control over the details of shooting is almost absent: the letter P, which automatically checks the correct exposure for a given scene, it is left alone without the other letters that usually accompany the iconography of the controls on the vast majority of cameras: the A ( control the opening of the diaphragm), S (shutter speed override TIMED) and M (manual control of exposure factors).

Among the special features of the PowerShot N are the reactivity Taken pretty fast, Adjustable touch monitor, built-in flash TTL and is appreciable the ability to shoot Full HD movies in addition to the option smart which at the click of a photograph of the processor applies different creative filters to images immediately following. This camera also aims to differentiate itself with regard to the position of the shutter button, a ring inserted between additional 8x optical zoom from 28 to 224 mm and the lens, the pressure of which, thanks to the symmetry of the object can be exercised both hands, but in fact impossible to fully exploit the advantage of preventing firmly hold the object in danger of moving the camera during shooting.