Canon Powershot SX170 IS отзывы, фото и обзор характеристик модели

Build quality and handling

The first thing you notice with the SX170 is the nice chunky handgrip — it’s easy to hold and isn’t likely to slip out of your fingers. It’s also noticeable that the pop-up flash is well away from stray fingers, always useful for people who don’t have the daintiest of hands.

Most of the buttons are situated on the back of the unit, to the right of the three-inch LCD screen — with the mode dial, zoom, shutter and power buttons on the top. On the back of the SX170 you’ll find a scroll wheel which also doubles as a four-way control pad, allowing users faster access when flipping between controls or when viewing their images in playback mode.

All the controls are on the right

For anyone familiar with the Canon menu system the SX170 will be easy and intuitive to use; for anyone who’s not, it shouldn’t take them long to get up to speed. The majority of the shooting options are accessible via the control pad, while the dedicated menu button takes care of settings like date and time and autofocus options. The SX170 also has a dedicated button for exposure compensation — which doubles as the ‘change function’ button while shooting in full manual.

While not exactly jean pocket friendly — unsurprising given the range of the zoom lens — the SX170 will still fit more than comfortably in a bag or coat pocket and is light enough to carry in your hand without it feeling awkward or heavy — even with the battery it still only weighs in at 251 grams.

It’s just about pocketable with the lens retracted

There’s no doubt that the SX170 is an easy camera to use. All the buttons are well placed, the on screen menu tips are helpful and settings are clearly labelled — allowing users to spend minimal time fiddling with settings and maximum time shooting.

We only had two issues with the SX170 — when shooting using optical zoom it was sometimes slow to focus, and hunted for focus in low light situations for a frustrating amount of time before locking on. In general the optical zoom performance was superb, and although the digital zoom produced fairly noisy images when shooting at the far end of the lens, that’s not completely unexpected, given that the images are a crop of a full resolution image.

Quite a lot of zoom in a little package

Our second issue was the occasional lack of clarity on the LCD when shooting — possibly a result of the SX170 using the slightly outdated 230,000-pixel technology on the screen, Oddly, when reviewing images during playback there were no issues and the photos are crisp and sharp.

Overall the SX170 feels like a quality piece of kit — nothing about it feels flimsy or cheap. Weather and dust proof, it should be able to deal with most of the things that regular users throw at it.