Canon IXUS 130 / PowerShot SD1400 IS lens and stabilisation review and tutorial

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Canon IXUS 130 / PowerShot SD1400 IS lens and stabilisation

The Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS is able with a fresh 4x optical zoom, agnate to 28-112mm. This is not alone broader than the basal 3x (33-100mm equivalent) ambit of its predecessor, but starts a little added as able-bodied as zooming a little longer. It’s still boilerplate abreast the ambit you’d get from super-zoom models like the SX210 IS, but appropriately they’re boilerplate abreast as slim. So we’d like to acknowledge Canon for assuredly accouterment this adorable little camera with 18-carat wide-angle capabilities.

Gratifyingly, not alone is the fresh lens wider, it’s a little brighter than its antecedent too, with a best breach of f2.8-5.9 compared to f3.2-5.8, although the abutting absorption ambit of 3cm charcoal the same. You can see an archetype of its advantage below, and added examples of how you can use it in our sample images Gallery.

Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS advantage wide

In convenance the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS’s 28-112mm agnate advantage is abundant for general-purpose use, and added adjustable than its predecessor. Coincidentally Sony’s Cyber-shot W350 additionally shares a 4x optical range, but starts a little added still at an agnate of 26mm, while catastrophe a atom beneath at 105mm. Wide-angle connoisseurs may acquisition the Sony ambit preferable, but there’s not abundant in it for anybody else. Both are abundant ranges to accept on such baby cameras.

The Canon lens extends actual bound aloft power-up with the camera accessible for activity in about 1.2 abnormal – about bisected a additional faster than its predecessor, so you’re absolutely not kept waiting. As declared earlier, the zoom is operated by a tiny joystick batten with the IXUS 130 IS / SD1400 IS alms eight accomplish amid advanced and telephoto.

Despite Canon allotment to bead the IS characterization from the IXUS cast in 2010, the IXUS 130 absolutely appearance Image Stabilisation; interestingly the identical North American SD1400 IS adaptation still has the characterization though. Branding aside, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS offers the aforementioned three stabilisation modes as its predecessor: Continuous area the arrangement operates all the time, Shoot Alone which alone applies stabilisation as you booty the photo, and Panning which alone stabilises in the vertical arbor for back you’re affective the camera angular as you booty the photo – for an archetype of application the latter, see the Blurring Activity tutorial at our sister site, DSLR Tips. You can additionally about-face off stabilisation for use on tripods, although the camera should ascertain this back set to Auto, at atomic for night scenes.

Canon IXUS 130 / PowerShot SD1400 IS Image Stabilisation off / on (Continuous)

Above are examples taken with and afterwards the absence Continuous stabilisation application the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS absolutely zoomed-into its best agnate of 112mm, and at a bang acceleration of 1/15. Traditional accurate admonition would acclaim a bang acceleration of at atomic 1/100 to annihilate camera agitate at this focal length, but the stabilised IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS accustomed us to abduction aciculate handheld shots at 1/15, which corresponds to about three stops of compensation.

Unfortunately we’re clumsy to adduce an agnate amount for the Sony W350, as its disability to manually about-face off the stabilisation agency we’re clumsy to accomplish a absolute afore and afterwards absolute comparison.

Ultimately though, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS’s stabilisation makes handholding a applicable hypothesis alike at almost apathetic bang speeds, although bethink like all stabilisation systems it’ll alone iron-out wobbles, not benumb a accountable in motion.

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