How good is the Cannon XS10is?

[C.C.Jordan]

Pretty damn good....

Its lens is equal to a 560mm telephoto, or so Canon claims.

Yesterday, my wife and I took our grand daughter for a walk in a local park. We discovered a wedding party there doing their post-ceremony photos. We were on the opposite side of the pond. I thought it would be fun to shoot some shots of their effort.

I keep a Bushnell laser range finder in my camera bag. I lased the range and it returned a distance of 288 yards (864 feet).

Since I didn't bring my monopod, I had to shoot hand held and hope the image stabilization would be my salvation.

Here's one of the shots, cropped, processed and run through Noiseware.



If I had my monopod, or better yet, one of my tripods, the image would have been cleaner and more sharp. As it is, I think that it is still impressive considering that we are talking about a $300 compact, single lens camera, hand held at very long range.

The overcast resulted in even, albeit low lighting, that resulted in a touch of noise, which is why I ran the photos through Noiseware for clean-up.


My regards,

C.C. Jordan