Canon PowerShot D20 Review: Tough Camera, Weak Performance

Last calendar month we testedthe best rugged , waterproof camerasand picked a victor . “ But what about the raw Canon ? ” everyone scream . Fear not . The PowerShot D20 went through some fell examination over the past brace of weeks . Could it hold up up ? Could it live , period ?

https://gizmodo.com/the-best-rugged-waterproof-camera-5916329

What Is It?

A 12.1MP photographic camera that shoots 1080p picture and is waterproof to 33 feet and shockproof to 5 foot .

Who’s it For?

People who like to get down and dirty , and require a photographic camera to capture the playfulness without dying .

Design

It ’s a massive improvement over its harbinger , Canon’sbulky D10 . This fits in your pocket , but it ’s still a uncanny , misshapen alien .

https://gizmodo.com/canon-d10-submarine-toughcam-love-it-but-hate-it-5163875

Using It

The D20 is a quick gunman , but it ’s punishing to make adjustment while using it one - handed . you’re able to lead it in machine mode , or dive into the menus to pluck controller , but it would be better to have a felicitous medium .

The Best Part

In bright daytime , photos are good , TV is first-class , and gloss are exact . Here are someexamples .

Tragic Flaw

Button placement is totally random . Why is the gaming clitoris on top ? Why are the zoom and television record buttons so hard to turn over with your pollex ? It take your manus hamper .

This Is Weird…

What ’s with that S - curve on the side ? Not only is it ugly and pointless , it make the camera even hard to hold .

Test Notes

The D20 put across the rugged test with vaporize colors . This included hr of surfing and swim in the Pacific Ocean and two 5 - human foot drops onto intemperate tile .

Something ’s up with the genus Lens . It ’s just not as knifelike as other like - sized Canons .

Low - lite shots are really somewhat risky , which is n’t surprising given its aperture starts at f/3.9 ( theOlympus TG-1is f/2.0 , by comparison ) . But if you turn it to the Handheld NightScene fashion it does a pretty honest occupation of compensating .

Hostinger Coupon Code 15% Off

The bombardment lifetime is excellent . It made it through four days of heavy shooting and had succus to spare . Using the built - in GPS will cut that down a snatch , but it still performed laudably .

Menu navigation is extremely non - visceral . The most readily accessible modes seem to be a random hodge - podge . It would be decent to be able to customize those .

It ’s missing a lot of the little feature that competing television camera have . Like , say a literal bird’s-eye mode . ( “ run up Assist ” reeeeeally does n’t cut it ) . No HDR modality , either .

Burning Blade Tavern Epic Universe

The flash does a pretty good task of evenly lighting , y’know , for an on - camera flash .

Seriously , what the hell was Canon thinking with this push button layout ? If I did n’t have the wrist - strap on I would have dropped it several clip .

The lens is in the upper left ( from your POV ) , which will help you one - hand it , if you ’re right - handed .

Ideapad3i

Manual mode is an option — a bonus for any point and shoot , and a rarity in a tough one .

Should You Buy It?

No . It ’s a becoming television camera , butthe Panasonic TS4 and the Olympus Toughcam TG-1both out - perform it in image timber and relief of use . A tough camera absolutely must be extremely easy to use . If you ca n’t take a beautiful photograph while rise off a cliff , then there ’s something wrong . canyon needs to go back to the UI drawing dining table for this one , as it ’s the most cumbersome of any rugged camera we ’ve tested . If Canon can fix that — and put a better lens and sensor on it — then you ’d have a actual contender . But that ’s a draw of ifs .

Canon PowerShot D20 Specs

Price : $ 350

Last Of Us 7 Interview