Touchscreen, Wi-Fi, slimline housing: The exceptionally designed Canon PowerShot N turns smartphones competition. Radical innovation: a trigger button does not exist. As the tiny compact camera photographed the test shows.
The new compact camera Canon PowerShot N makes much differently than previous cameras: The body is almost square, not broad and rectangular. A release button does not exist anymore but a touch screen and a release lever that is circular around the lens.
With these innovations, Canon wants to revive the compact camera segment. Especially the cheap small cameras suffer from the smartphone competition. Perhaps we can entice a new concept buyers.
Small, light and foldable - how well the cuts PowerShot N in the photo practice reveals the test.
I like: form, image quality, display
Compact housing: Thanks to the almost square shape (8 x 6 inches) affects the body of the PowerShot N significantly more manageable than it actually is. This camera puts you to safely into the inner pocket of the jacket or in your pocket. The PowerShot N is fatter than a smartphone, but just pocket fit with just three centimeters.
Operation: The operation is used to, but it does have advantages. The release button replaces a metal ring around the lens, which can be slid up and down. This ring can be pushed with one or two index fingers around no matter how you hold the camera straight. The advantage of this design: you can hold the camera far above the head or close to the ground and has it on the folding screen, the subject is still a good view.If you hold the camera above your head, you simply turns it over to the shutter does not have to search. Another advantage of the sliding ring construction: Who as triggers, the camera automatically maintains their design with two hands - one hand shake due photographs are excluded.
Folding screen : The 90 degree tilt up (or down, depending on the position of the camera) screen is touch-sensitive. You control a finger tap through the menus, wiping back and forth while looking at photos and typing away on a keyboard screen - the display registered entries quickly and accurately. The camera can also be triggered by touching the screen. The folding screen is also good for use as stand: You can make the PowerShot N, for example, on a surface and be photographed or filmed.
Speed: The PowerShot N dissolves quickly - pass at wide angle, according to the measurements of Digitalkamera.de including autofocus 0.26 seconds from initiation to recording. Since some much more expensive compact cameras are slower.
Shutter lag Canon PowerShot N: Values below 0.3 seconds good to very good, to about 0.6 seconds, they are satisfactory
Image quality: For such a small camera, the PowerShot N has a surprisingly high image quality. The sensor has the smallest spread in a compact camera format (0.28 square centimeter of surface) - but that's still twice as much as with most smartphones. At low ISO sensitivity (ISO 80, ISO 100) fall shots from amazingly detailed and clear. At increased sensitivity to light and noise increases the noise reduction also smoothes away details. This effect is already visible at ISO 400, but not overly distracting.
These laboratory tests confirm the visual impression of Digitalkamera.de .The signal-to-noise ratio of the PowerShot N is at ISO 100 in good area of about 40 dB - for testers in the lab "a rarity in such a small image sensor."
For compact cameras decent signal to noise ratio of the PowerShot N: The larger the value, the more the signal is and the lower the interfering noise
Smartphone connectivity: The PowerShot N, has an integrated Wi-Fi module, about the camera can be easily connected to a smartphone on which a free Canon app (Android and iOS) is installed. This software transfers photos from your camera, which you can then continue editing on the smartphone use and can transmit to all online services. That's a good combination of smartphone and app - if you go plans to publish a good shot really quickly, which is quite easily possible, though not as fast as with the smartphone itself
Not so good: software, lens, flash
Software: The PowerShot N is a camera, not a smartphone. Therefore, it is amazing that even basic controls for aperture and exposure time are missing. Videos can not be loaded onto the phone itself - such software restrictions unnecessarily annoying.
Handling : Some details of the hardware bother. The power switch of the camera, for example, is difficult to palpate. Because of the almost square housing to rotate in search of the ever-switch the camera back and forth until you have found the right button. That would be easy to improve: To switch between recording series and single image mode, a horizontal slide switch on the housing. The same model in the vertical would be perfect as a power switch.
Equipment: The flash should be brighter, the lens aperture larger (f / 3 is average) - a truly revolutionary PowerShot compact camera lacks the N or something.
Advantages, disadvantages, conclusion
for the sensor size good picture quality
thoughtful, innovative operation
folding screen
faster autofocus
Wireless module
good connection via smartphone app
Operation takes several hours acclimatization
noisy images when shooting at night
weak flash
no semi-automatic, no manual settings
no raw data
Conclusion: The PowerShot N has some smartphones ahead. An eight-times optical zoom lens has no camera phone - Samsung Galaxy sweeping camera except once. A comparable image quality in smartphones offer a few exotic models like the Nokia 808 Pure View. The PowerShot N is an interesting alternative for photographers who want more than a smart phone offers, but shy away from precious-compact cameras and manual settings. The retail price is expected to decline after a few months.
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