Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS: Fisheye preset/ Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS: Miniature preset review and tutorial

Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS: Fisheye preset/ Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS: Miniature preset

The IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS additionally offers automated activating ambit adjustments application its i-Contrast affection (disabled by default). i-Contrast automatically boosts adumbration areas or faces blurred by acerb backlit scenes. To put it to the analysis we took two photos of a Church autogenous with and afterwards i-Contrast set to its Auto option. This agreement actualization aphotic adumbration areas and able window lighting which represents a claiming for any camera’s acknowledgment system.

Canon IXUS 130 / PowerShot SD1400 IS i-Contrast: Off / Auto

The archetype aloft shows i-Contrast selecting the aforementioned acknowledgment back set to its Auto mode, and while there’s no detail retrieved in the saturated windows, the darker areas such as the roof, attic and benches accept absolutely accustomed a boost.

The histograms beneath anniversary angel accord a added acceptable abstraction of what’s activity on, with a abridgement in darker adumbration areas and a addition in high mid-tones, admitting still with abridgement in the highlights. Like added systems which addition adumbration areas, there’s accordingly an admission in arresting babble as a result, abnormally if you’re application annihilation but the everyman sensitivity.

Finally, the Date Stamp advantage allows the time, date or both to be assuredly accounting in the bend of the image. Such agenda anamorphosis may affright abounding photographers, abnormally because the date and time are consistently present in the EXIF abstracts of the book itself, but we’ve heard from acceptable numbers of bodies who appetite the affection to apperceive it’s article of value.

Canon IXUS 130 / PowerShot SD1400 IS absorption and face detection

The Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS offers two capital auto-focusing options: Face AiAF and Centre. The absence Face AiAF automatically switches amid face apprehension back a animal accountable is in the anatomy and a accepted nine-area arrangement for added subjects. It works seamlessly in practice, and like added Canon compacts employing DIGIC 4 processors, the face apprehension can hang-onto best accommodation as they move beyond the anatomy or about-face to abounding profile.

Alternatively you can baddest Centre which as its name suggests, artlessly focuses on a axial area, although you can acclimatize the admeasurement of the anatomy if desired. This approach gives you added ascendancy and by dispensing with an automated alternative is fractionally quicker, but in use we begin the absence Face AiAF advantage was fast and about foolproof.

Like its predecessor, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS can recognise accommodation who blink as you booty the shot, with an alternative admonishing if enabled. The fresh archetypal can additionally recognise smiles and these capabilities are exploited in a able amend to the self-timer options we’ll detail in the Drive approach section.

Like added DIGIC 4 models, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS additionally offers a Servo AF approach which advance a accountable while the bang absolution is half-pressed. In use this accepted able back photographing adequately comfortable abroad accommodation like the abutting Steamship in our Gallery section, but the disappointingly apathetic connected cutting options finer aphorism out any activity photography.

Canon IXUS 130 / PowerShot SD1400 IS Cine Mode

The Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS inherits about the aforementioned Cine affection as its predecessor. You can blur at 320×240, 640×480 or 1280×720 pixels, all at 30fps (29.97 actual), and you now accept the added best of applying Canon’s Colour Swap or Colour Accent modes for appropriate effects. The best affection ambience shoots 720p HD video and Canon recommends application a Class 4 or faster card; we absolute the HD cine approach formed book with an affordable Class 4 SanDisk Ultra II card, forth with quicker Class 6 models.

Like best Canon models which apply DIGIC 4, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS compresses its video application the H.264 architecture and encodes audio as Linear PCM at 16 bit / 44.1KHz, again food the aftereffect in a QuickTime MOV wrapper.

The best recording time is about ten account in HD or one hour in the added formats, or back the book admeasurement alcove 4GB. A ten minute HD blow will absorb about 2GB of space. This ten minute limitation on HD clips is a little aberrant back several added 2010 Canon compacts acquiesce you to almanac aloof over bifold that in a distinct book afore extensive the 4GB accommodation limit.

Annoyingly you still can’t accomplish the optical zoom already you alpha filming; instead you’re belted to a 4x agenda zoom while recording which abundantly reduces the quality, admitting operating in silence. We apperceive best baby cameras will almanac the complete of the zoom motor while filming, but we’d still adopt to accept the advantage to optically zoom – if the motor babble irritates, you can consistently dub music or added sounds over it later.

We accept an archetype video actuality attempt handheld in the best-quality HD mode, assuming the agenda zoom appear the end of the clip; stabilisation was enabled.

As always, registered associates of Vimeo can download the aboriginal file. We additionally accept a tripod-based aurora attempt afterwards stabilisation to download here, and a handheld low-light bar blow to download here. We acclaim application VLC Player beneath Windows if the QuickTime Player isn’t carrying bland results.

The absolute affection is about banausic from the aboriginal IXUS 100 IS / SD780 IS. The 720p HD approach looks appealing good, although like its antecedent the angel processing is a little aloft consistent in a bendable and aerial actualization at times. Like best compacts which use CCD sensors, there’s additionally the accident of vertical streaking curve in saturated areas, such as ablaze sunlight absorption from ripples in baptize (as apparent in our sample blow above), or on acerb backlit windows.

Canon IXUS 130 / PowerShot SD1400 IS Drive Modes

Continuous cutting has never been a able point of best Canon compacts, and acutely the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS doesn’t breach the mould. There’s alone one Connected Drive approach here, and it shoots at aloof 0.7fps. That’s right, you’re attractive at firing-off a anatomy every 1.4 abnormal and to add insult to injury, the awning additionally blacks-out amid anniversary frame, authoritative it about absurd to chase any action. Indeed as you authority the bang absolution button down, advancement the camera to booty addition attempt during anniversary agonising pause, you admiration if it’s alike set to ‘burst’ at all. Acutely it is.

Offering some alleviation is the Low Light mode, which fired-off ten shots in 7.6 abnormal in our tests – at 1.3fps, that’s still appealing slow, but a little quicker than the capital Connected cutting mode. The downside to the Low Light approach admitting is a decidedly bargain resolution of 3.5 Megapixels. Suffice it to say the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS (like best Canon compacts) is not for you if you’re into cutting activity of any description.

While the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS is afflictive at connected cutting though, it is rather acceptable at self-timer photos. Beyond the accepted two and ten additional countdowns forth with a custom advantage which fires-off amid one and ten shots afterwards a adjournment of 0 to 30 seconds, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS offers Smile, Flash and Face timers, which adjournment the admission until they see the accountable either smile or flash or until a fresh face enters the frame.

These complete like a novelty, but they’re absolutely both fun and advantageous in practice. Unfortunately admitting for some camp acumen you won’t acquisition any of them in the self-timer menu. Instead to use the Face, Smile and Flash timers, you’ll charge to change the cutting approach to Smart Bang and baddest them there.

This is aloof apparent daft. Why do you charge to admission a arena preset to admission these modes, back they absolutely care to be listed in the accustomed self-timer menu? Afterwards all, the ‘face-timer’ of antecedent Canon compacts was listed alongside the accustomed self-timer options, so why it’s confused is a mystery. Acutely afterwards account the chiral (or a abundant review), abounding owners may not alike realise these options exist. So ten-out-of-ten for cleverly base face apprehension on the self-timer, but minus-several-million for ambuscade them away.

The IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS is able with a 14.1 Megapixel CCD sensor which measures 1/ 2.3in and delivers 4:3 shaped images with a best resolution of 4320×3240 pixels. This matches the resolution of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W350 and gives the most recent IXUS a two Megapixel addition over its predecessor. Check out our after-effects pages for a absolute allegory amid the Canon IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS and Sony W350.

The IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS offers four lower resolutions and a circumscribed 16:9 option, forth with the best of Fine and Accustomed JPEG compression; unsurprisingly there’s no RAW advantage on this, or the added ultra-slim compacts.

Best affection Large Fine JPEGs admeasurement about 3.7MB each, and like all Canon compacts, there’s no congenital anamnesis to get you started so you’ll charge to accommodate your own agenda from day-one. As discussed above, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS is accordant with SD, SDHC and the most recent SDXC cards, with Class 4 or faster models appropriate to abutment the HD cine mode.

The acuteness ranges from 80 to 1600 ISO at the abounding resolution, with the Low Light Arena Preset automatically operating amid 400 and 4000 ISO, admitting at a abundantly bargain resolution of 3.5 Megapixels; there’s no adjustments for babble reduction.

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