Canon PowerShot D20 Preview

Canon PowerShot D20 Preview

Canon took its time redesigning its waterproof camera, so we have high hopes for the Canon D20, a waterproof, shock-proof, and freeze-proof digital camera with a 5x optical zoom lens and Canon's own HS system for low-light photography.

With a practical 28-140mm zoom lens, the Canon D20 has a good zoom range for basic outdoor photography. Its 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor works in conjunction with its DIGIC 4 processor to deliver images with low noise and good overall quality, according to Canon.

Basic Specifications :
Resolution:12.10 Megapixels
Lens:5.00x zoom (28-140mm eq.)
Viewfinder:LCD
LCD Size:3.0 inch
ISO:100-3200
Shutter:15-1/1600
Max Aperture:3.9
Dimensions:4.4 x 2.8 x 1.1 in. (112 x 71 x 28 mm)
Weight:8.0 oz (228 g)
includes batteries
MSRP:$350
Availability:05/2012 

Built-in Image Stabilization helps steady stills and videos, which can later be viewed on the 3-inch LCD. Because the Canon D20 is a camera built for the outdoors, it includes wind-reduction technology to help reduce wind noise even when it's breezy out, and a built-in GPS so you know precisely where you were when you took each photo.

Among the Canon D20's 32 Scene modes you'll find a built-in Underwater Macro mode specially designed to get close-up shots while underwater. The Canon D20 was also designed to be used while you're wearing gloves thanks to an easy-access button.

                
The Canon D20 is waterproof to a very deep 32.8 feet, and shockproof to drops from up to 4.9 feet. It can also withstand cold down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit.

Shipping as of May 2012, the Canon D20 is expected to sell for US$350.


Source : http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-d20/canon-d20A.HTM

Canon VS Nikon

INTRODUCTION

I'm going to to on and on below about personal experience, so feel free to skip ahead to the real differences between Nikon and Canon.Nikon and Canon are as good as each other. Each are multi-billion dollar optical companies who have been making some of the world's best optics for numerous consumer, military and industrial applications for decades and decades and decades.

Each makes lenses as parts of multi-million-dollar steppers used in making electronic chips with more precision anything needed for photography, and each make other optics that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars in other applications. They each make our cameras and lenses out of the same stuff from which they create these other products.

I don't extend this same awe towards discount lensmakers, but I do have this respect for Nikon and Canon and Pentax and LEICA and Fuji and Zeiss who've been making much more than cameras for longer than I've been alive. I do have a hat off to Tokina, who are related to Hoya, who are as far as I know the biggest maker of optical glass on the planet, and whose glass is found in parts of everyone's lenses.