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Canon Powershot SX200 IS
Canon Powershot SX200 IS
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Dawn Wieber (dmwbjw) 3 pts
March 2, 2009 12:04 PM
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zoom while in movie mode?

does the 12x zoom work while in movie mode?
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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 58450 pts
March 2, 2009 11:50 PM
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Too soon to tell. It's fairly common that zoom doesn't happen while recording due to motor noise of the lens as it zooms being recorded. Some allow digital zoom, but not optical for that reason.But several camera lines have figured a way around it.
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Dawn Wieber (dmwbjw) 3 pts
March 3, 2009 12:27 AM
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ty but I really need to know if this camera can zoom in movie mode.
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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 58450 pts
March 3, 2009 10:18 PM
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I understand that. But the camera is so new, that there aren't any reviews out there to tell.
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Wilson 0 pts
March 13, 2009 12:03 AM
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As long as I understand, optical zoom not working with video, not sure for digital zoom.
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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 58450 pts
March 13, 2009 6:01 PM
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Digital zoom is fairly worthless as it doesn't really zoom so much as it blows up the image - causing exaggerated camera shake and artifacting due to heavy pixelization. (think of it like a xerox that is enlarged and then taking that enlarged zerox and enlarging that - you lose clarity exponentially).

Most digital still cameras in this range don't have zoom capability while recording. If that's a deal breaker, you're better off looking at a hand held camcorder which takes stills and writes them to a memory card. The quality is approaching 6MB on some hidef models.
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Derek 0 pts
March 14, 2009 6:07 PM
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I owned a Canon S1 IS before, and it did zoom (optical) while in movie mode; I don't see why Canon couldn't therefore put the same feature into the SX200. Of course, nobody in the US will really know until it is actually released late March, I am thinking.
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Peter 6 pts
March 15, 2009 2:15 AM
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DCresource has a review today: no optical zoom in movie mode, you have to go to SX10 or to Panasonic sz3 for that. It's a pity.
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Aditya agarwal (adityacul) 31 pts
March 18, 2009 9:18 AM
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This camera does not allow you optical zoom once the video recording has started. Although you can zoom in and out in the video mode before you start recording
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felix 25 pts
May 31, 2009 4:31 AM
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Is panasonic ZS3 better than SX200?
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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 58450 pts
June 3, 2009 12:02 AM
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I think it's a toss up, actually. Panasonic has been making some pretty good models of late. And Canon is consistently top notch. What I would do is go to this resource - which takes sample images and you can compare them side by side. It doesn't have the TS3, but it does have the TS1 & TS5, so you should get a pretty good idea of how the TS3 may perform in the same arena.
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