Canon PowerShot SX40 HS review

the SX40 HS is a truly wonderful digital camera with fantastic picture quality and at the end of the day that`s what counts, not speed or gimmicks....picture quality!!!! no other superzoom in my opinion can match it in this regard indeed its picture quality is not far of the picture quality of an slr, well done canon this powershot is truley a winner.

I disagree with above comment - you need to be able to achieve the shot. Of course we want picture quality which this Canon's good at, but it's NOT the best in performance terms.

It's the photographer that takes the photo, not the camera.. If you set your exposures are good you will get good results.. I have the SX20 and have gotten some great results so I presume the SX40 would even be better.. I must say though I mainly use the SX20 in full daylight.. I suspect the SX40 to be much better in low light.. I agree with Allen, It depends on the photographer.

I think that Canon has made some significant improvements over the SX30 with this camera. My photos have better colour balance and - more importantly to me - no colour fringing at all. The slow motion plays back brilliantly on my tv & the night scenes are excellent considering the shooting conditions. As for the resolution of the viewfinder & lcd screen I think that they are perfectly adequate for my needs. I bought the SX40 for portability, especially for holidays, so I think that Canon is spot-on with this all-rounder of a camera.

I went to a multi brand shop and asked the guy to let me use my memory card and take some pics......I clicked three different shots with each sony, nikon and canon.........came back to download the images on my laptop.......saw them.........went straight to the shop and bought SX40 with no doubt in my mind :-)

I would like to express my gratitude to the author. Great review, it contains an answer for a lot of the questions wich I had conserning the Canon sx 40 hs

what is the bestg setting for taking shots of the moon with the sx40 on manual mode I am having some problems with that ?

Good review. I am looking at the SX40, I have a Canon S5IS and been very happy with it. Also looking at the Canon 600D. But I don't like the extra weight to carry about. I too am a bit disappointed about the small LCD and the low level EVF. I just wonder if the photos are a much better than the S5IS. I also have a Panasonic TZ20 which I must say shoots Video very nicely and very stable, but the still pictures are terrible. Just too much noise, especially in low light. Never buy Panasonic again. Regards.

Canon powershot sx40HS is a super camera I perched recently. super stills, HD video.

Just got mine from QVC for £311.00, ordered Sat arrived Tuesday, looking forward to the weekend to put it through its paces