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Canon Powershot D10 Waterproof Camera – A Brilliant Tough Digital Camera
With the introduction of the snazzy little Canon PowerShot D10 Digital Camera, Canon finally ventures into the one arena of the digital camera wars where they haven’t gone before. The new D10 is Canon’s first underwater point and shoot, waterproof to 10 meters/33 feet. Canon has long offered underwater housings for their more popular cameras, but those contraptions occasionally leak, cost almost as much as the camera, and they’re bulky and complicated in use.
One of the most impressive things about underwater digital cameras (which seem to be pretty popular right now) is that unlike the dedicated underwater cameras of the past, Nikon’s venerable Nikonos for example, today’s underwater cameras are simply tougher waterproof versions of general use compact digitals with all the bells and whistles of their above water siblings.
Canon’s digital cameras are top competitors in just about every Point and Shoot class, but they’re starting from scratch here. The Powershot D10 digital camera isn’t particularly compact, elegant, or stylish looking – rather it sports a kind of bulbous metallic industrial-chic look with lots of exposed screw heads. The matte silver and electric blue (I see a matte silver and hot pink model on the horizon) color scheme seemed a bit flashy to me, and one of my friends thought it looked like a slightly garish toy from Hasbro or Mattel.
The Powershot D10 features a very good 3x (35mm-105mm equivalent) zoom with optical image stabilization and Canon’s fourth generation DIGIC processor coupled to a 1/2.3-inch 12.1 megapixel CCD image sensor. There’s also a 30 fps VGA (640×480) movie mode and a new Smart Auto (exposure) mode.
I’m not really a water person, so my impressions of the Powershot D10 in “wet” mode will be limited. I did submerge the camera in a nearby creek and took several shots at the auto setting with no problems.
Water and dust seals appear to be very good – after its dunking I dried the D10 off with a small cotton towel and then checked the lens housing and battery compartment for misting, condensation, or moisture – not surprisingly everything was dry as a bone. I didn’t evaluate Canon’s shock-proofing or freeze-proofing claims.
The D10′s compass switch (four-way controller) and FUNC button provide direct menu access to the most commonly changed/adjusted features and functions like exposure compensation, WB, sensitivity, My Colors, flash, macro mode, metering, drive mode, and resolution.
Basic shooting modes on the D10 include:
* Auto: Point-and-shoot mode with very limited user input
* Smart Auto: automatic scene recognition mode that instantly compares what’s in front of the lens with an on board image database and then matches that information with the specific scene’s subject distance, white balance, contrast, dynamic range, lighting, and color (just before the image is recorded) to determine the best exposure. For example if the Powershot D10 determines that a face (or faces) is the subject – the camera automatically switches to Portrait mode.
* Program: Auto exposure with user input (sensitivity, white balance, etc.)
* Scene: Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater, ISO 3200, Long Shutter, Indoor, Kids & Pets, Night Snapshot, Color Accent, Color Swap, Stitch Assist
* Movie: The camera records video at a maximum of 640×480 @ 30 fps for up to 4 GB or 1 hour.
There really isn’t much to complain about with the Canon Powershot D10 waterproof camera. It’s cheaper than the closest competitor from Olympus, it goes a little deeper than many of the other underwater cameras in its class, and it has the toughest wrist strap ever to grace a compact digital. I’ve been using Canons for more than 10 years and I’ve only been disappointed once. That’s because Canon seems to know what consumers want and they deliver cameras that are affordable, easy to use, feature rich, fairly compact, relatively quick, and capable of consistently producing excellent images.
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