Canon Powershot SX510 HS Camera

The last post was about Canon Powershot SX50 HS Camera as upgrade from your old Canon SX20 IS Camera. But SX50 cost around $400 and it's not cheap. If you don't have a that kind of budget but still want to a Megazoom camera which is better than SX20 then you have another Canon camera to consider. That's Canon Powershot SX510 HS Camera.

2 disadvantages of Canon SX50 camera is it's way too heavy to be a perfect compact camera and It's too expensive to average camera users pocket. This Canon SX510 is a solution for both of these problems. It's smaller in size and twice cheaper than The big SX50. But it has all main features of the big camera which is an advantage.

It has a 12.1 megapixel high-sensitivity 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor combined with the Canon DIGIC 4 image processor which makes photo qulity seriously high and CMOS sensor helps low light shootings. The camera comes with 30x optical zoom which means 10x more than your Canon SX20 camera has. Not many below $200 point and shoot cameras has CMOS sensors. Usually small compact cameras has CCD sensors. But the truth is these days all camera companies try to use bigger sensors in smaller camera so they stay in competition.

Here's a list of features Canon SX510 camera has,

• 12.1 megapixel high-sensitivity 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor.
• Canon DIGIC 4 image processor.
• 30x optical zoom.
• 24mm wide-angle.
• Smart Auto intelligently.
• 1080p full HD video in stereo sound.
• 3-inch color LCD with a screen resolution of 461,000 dots.
• built-in Wi-Fi.
• High Speed AF.
• ECO Mode.
• NB-6L Li-ion Rechargeable Battery. 

There are several accessories you will need to buy alone with the SX510 if you are going to buy one.You can use your SDHC memory cards from your SX20 but need a new smaller camera bag, and also add a spare battery which can come handy. With the Amazon combo pack we have recommended you can get all these accessories for just extra $10.

You can get not just Camera bag but also a tripod, Camera cleaning kit, 16GB SDHC memory card,  A pouch to keep memory cards etc. All of those stuff including camera cost you only about $210 with free shipping at Amazon.