The latest advance in Canon Optical Image Stabilization technology, Intelligent IS analyzes camera movement and applies the best shake correction method for the shooting situation Canon Powershot SX40 HS. For stills, the system automatically selects among Normal, Panning, Macro (Hybrid) and Tripod IS modes. When shooting video, the system automatically selects among Dynamic, Powered, Macro and Tripod IS modes. With Intelligent IS, you can concentrate on image capture, letting the camera make the most effective IS settings to assure the steadiest possible image. I don’t. Canon Powershot SX40 HS I want portability, not super zoom. So I bought an S95 and have used it the past year. Got this cam for the 10 percent of shots I thought I wasn’t getting with the S95 and guess what? I’m still not getting them because the SX40 doesn’t fit in my pocket.

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Canon Powershot SX40 HS

If I want to carry a bulky camera I’ll haul out the T2i. A point and shoot should not be this big. Now, if you are only going to have one camera and you absolutely have to have the biggest zoom in a point and shoot…you’ve found it. This thing’s a long-ranger. Canon Powershot SX40 HS It gives you standard barrel distortion that Canon mostly removes via in-camera processing. Its controls are more frustrating than the S95. To get basic parameter changes I have to drill into menus. The S95 has enough tactile control to make adjustments faster for less fiddling when you want to be getting the shot. But it has a “framing zoom only.” I like that. Canon Powershot SX40 HS You may hate it. But if I see a distant subject I want to photograph, I GO OVER THERE. You will always get better detail than if you just point a long zoom at it. I realize there are shots I’m not going to get, particularly of wildlife or over water or from a distant lookout or whatever.

Canon Powershot SX40 HS

But honestly that’s not the kind of shot I pursue anyway. I like the funky stage-lit concert shot at House of Blues when I’m close enough to get a full-length lead singer portrait in mid-kick. The red barn against the blue sky. The inside of a candlelit rustic restaurant in the inn built in the 1700s. The S95, with its f/2.0 lens, flat out blows the SX40 into the weeds for the kind of color and light I love. I think I’ll list my new SX40 on ebay and see how the new S100 is. I hear they put a built-in ND filter on this one.  Same sensor as the SX40, faster lens. What’s not to like? Yes, I’ll still miss those superzoom shots. But since I don’t take superzoom shots anyway, no loss for me. I gain it back tenfold in image quality, especially in low light. And best of all, the camera is always with me so when an interesting image presents itself, I have the tool to make the photograph right in my pocket.

Powershot SX40 HS

I have a G12 that’s gathering dust as well. The S95 has the same sensor and processor and IMHO a better lens than the G12, and fits in a pocket. SX40 HS The SX40′s party trick is that telescope they hung on it. If you must have that huge zoom, this is your camera. Powershot SX40 HS For me it introduces more shake than I can handle even with IS and I have to lock it on a tripod to get anything like a usable image at long range.

Canon SX40HS

HS The tradeoff is poor low light performance and less creative control of my shots, as well as all the bulk involved in lugging the Hubble around with me. Canon SX40HS I see why this camera is popular with shooters who dig that zoom, and for that it’s awesome. Canon Powershot SX40 HS If you are one of those then you know who you are.  Bid on mine–you mightget it for quite a bit less than Amazon is selling them for.

Review by Adam Petrone:

I’ve only had the SX40HS for 1 day , but in comparing the photo’s from the SX30is I own to the SX40hs the quality of the photo’s are much sharper with true to life colors, the biggest improvement I see is in low light. The low light photo’s are sharp and bright but with that natural lighting look.I purchased the SX30IS last fall and was generally happy with it. When I heard that the SX40HS was to have the new Digic 5 processor I jumped at it. I love the fact that it’s an all in 1 camera, HD Video, zoom and wide angle photo’s. The SX40HS has the new Canon DIGIC 5 Image Processor and a high-sensitivity 12.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor dropped down from 14 Megapixel in the SX30IS. This advanced Canon technology delivers stunning image quality with reduced noise and blur and for the first time in the super zoom it brings high-speed burst shooting and 1080p video to the party, even though the video looks super it’s only at 24fps, why not 30 fps is beyond me. As I play more I’ll add to this post. My SX30IS is up on E-Bay as I type this.