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What the PowerShot Can Do For You
When it comes right down to getting your money’s worth, the D10 definitely passes the test. It is able to take pictures and movies while providing you with some useful features such as the 2.5 inch LCD, image stabilization, zoom lens, and 12 megapixels of digital clarity.
Canon is known for making great cameras. The D10 does an amazing job at taking good quality digital pictures. Plus, you can take pictures underwater without purchasing a separate camera casing. In fact, this is the perfect camera when you plan to go on vacation. It doesn’t need any kind of maintenance as you shoot a multitude of outdoor adventure pictures. The camera was built to handle abuse while capturing images of your most memorable moments.
The Canon PowerShot D10 
All of these features were combined to make this camera one of the most robust. As ever, Canon includes a couple of extra features such as manual focusing and some extra flash options. Built in are more standard features such as image stabilization and a 12 megapixel sensor with a 3x optical zoom lens.
Image and Video Quality at its Finest
The D10′s 30 fps VGA or 640X480 movie mode does a great job when you want to generate e-mail video attachments for friends and family. This is especially useful if you can get some great and interesting underwater video. The D10
can definitely endure extended exposure to harsh climates.
When you are considering image quality, the D10 is able to optimize point-and-shoots with bold and bright colors. The balanced contrast that has been identified with Canon can still be found in this latest model as well. The default color is accurate even when placed underwater. As for its center sharpness, it is generally pretty good. Because it was built for outdoor shots, the D10 produces well exposed shots with hue-accurate colors.
Additionally, the D10′s Auto white balance setting does an impressive job when placed across a wide range of lighting conditions: bright daylight and overcast. Aside from its auto settings, there are also Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Underwater, and Custom WB settings.
All in all, you’ll be more than happy with your D10
What’s under D10’s Hood
Check out the D10′s built-in multi mode flash. It provides you with an acceptable selection of artificial lighting options. Some of the said options are Auto (shoots when needed), On (fill flash), Red-Eye Reduction, Red-Eye Correction, Slow Sync, and Off. The maximum flash range goes as far as 10 feet. It also features the same 9-point AiAF (Advanced Intelligent Auto Focus) TTL Contrast Detection system that can also be found on its “A” series and “SD” series. In every exposure mode available, the camera is able to analyze the scene in front of the lens before it calculates the camera to subject distance. This is because it helps you determine which of the 9 AF points is closest to the primary subject. Once that is set, it locks its focus on that AF point.
The D10′s Optical Image Stabilization system is able to reduce the tendency for blurring. This is done by quickly and precisely shifting a lens element in the zoom so that you are able to compensate for minor movement and shake. The image stabilization allows its users to shoot at shutter speeds up to three f-stops slower. This is also especially useful when shooting in dimly lit areas where the flash is just not enough. It has three IS modes: Continuous, Shoot only, and Panning for horizontal exposures.
Moreover, the camera features a 6.2mm-18.6mm f3X zoom. The closest focusing distance is 1.2 inches or 3 centimeters. Zooming is therefore quick, easy, and smooth. Its zoom operation is silent because it is fully enclosed in the camera’s waterproof shell.
The PowerShot LCD Screen and Viewfinder
Like many off the current point and shoot digital cameras, the D10 relies on a 2.5 inch or a 230,000 pixel LCD screen. The D10′s 2.5 inch wide viewing angle TFT LCD screen comes with glare coating. Its pictures come out vivid and clear. It is also relatively fluid because it can automatically boost gain in dim or low light. Though the size may be small, the screen is more than sharp enough for compositional tasks and image review. What makes it even nicer is its useful user-enabled LCD grid-line display. It’s simple touches like these that make the Canon brand worthwhile and handy.
Performance-wise, the timing should be a crucial and vital consideration when assessing digital camera performance. You should also think about image quality. The D10 is able to deliver these seamlessly. You’ll know that the camera is powerful because it only takes about a second to start up.
Even though the D10
doesn’t look like the other Canon line cameras, it still utilizes the same practical and easy-to-understand system that is similar to its relatives. The levels of exposure are automatically managed with the help of the DIGIC IV processor that combines itself with the most primary camera functions. All these were designed improve efficiency and processing speed. Look under the D10’s hood and you’ll know that you get the Canon quality. Plus, the lithium rechargeable battery pack is good for 220 exposures. The supplied rapid charger also can be plugged directly to the wall. Wait 90 minutes and you’re good to go.
Menus and Modes of the PowerShot D10
The PowerShot D10
features Canon’s classic menu system. The choices it presents is known to be the best even when placed against its contemporaries. Navigating around the cameras system is extremely simple because it requires only minimal user input. When it comes to video editing, figuring you way around it is just as complicated. You can find your way around the most commonly changed and adjusted features and functions.
If you want to know the basic shooting modes, these are the following:
• Auto: It’s the basic point-and-shoot mode that doesn’t need much user input.
• Smart Auto: it has the automatic scene recognition mode so that it is able to immediately compare what’s in front of the lens with an on board image database. After that, it matches the information available with the specific scene’s subject distance, white balance, contrast, dynamic range, lighting, and color so that the user is able to determine the best exposure for the shot. If you don’t know what this means, just take a face shot and the camera will automatically switch to Portrait mode.
• Program: Allows auto exposure with just the input of the user. This involves aspects like sensitivity, white balance, and the like.
• Available Scene Choices: Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater, ISO 3200, Long Shutter, Indoor, Kids & Pets, Night Snapshot, Color Accent, Color Swap, Stitch Assist
• Video: The camera is able to record video at a maximum of 640×480 @ 30 fps for up to 4 GB or as much as 1 hour.