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Old May 28th 10, 03:59 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,rec.photo.digital.point+shoot
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On 28/05/10 3:41 AM, F wrote:

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As for the SX1, as well as good reviews, it's very 'controllable', it
has a fast burst mode, it has a viewfinder (which I consider vital), the
LCD can be rotated (again, very useful and missing on the later
Panasonics) and it uses AA batteries. Oh, and there's currently a £50
cashback offer on it from Canon. The only downside I can see is that,
like the later Panasonics, it doesn't have the manual zoom ring of the
FZ30.


Yeah, manual zoom rings are great, but unfortunately that's a feature
that's been decontented out of most ZLRs.

Good choice. Consider trying CHDK on it. The SX1 already has many of the
features that CHDK provides to the lower end Canon models, but there's
still some useful stuff in there. If you have any questions on CHDK let
me know. I wrote a lot of documentation for it and I'm very familiar
with it.