Friday, July 03, 2009

Canon Powershot SD1200IS video improvment

One test that I had not done before was to test the SD1200 (and SD780) in video mode for the annoying "light bleeding". If you have an older (a year or more :) Canon camera and use it for video, you have probably seen this. It happens when you have bright lights in the video, like the sun, lamps or reflections. A vertical line is formed up and down from the light. Here's a video capture from SD800:



On SD1200 this is almost gone. I suspect all Canon cameras with the new DIGIC-4 chip will see this improvement. I have owned S3IS, SD700IS and they also had the bleeding. If you use video, this is a good reason to upgrade. Here is a video example of how it looks.



SD1200IS at Amazon: Light gray, Dark gray, Pink, Blue, Green, Orange.

5 comments:

xelex said...

What SD card do you use? There is so much brands right now and speed ratings that it makes my head spin. I would like to be able to take at least 30 minutes of video and have a space for at least 100 pictures. And to do everything on highest quality settings. Is 8 Gb card sufficient for that?

xelex said...

Second question would be how long video capture can you make with PowerShot SD780 when you have full charged battery?

Mats said...

I use a Sandisk (not sure about speed rating, but it works fine). 8Gb gives ~60min in highest quality. So 30min would leave room for 1000s of photos :) (I think. A lot anyway).

Mats said...

Battery life, see http://matspointofview.blogspot.com/2009/04/sd780is-video-battery-life.html

xelex said...

Thanks, mate. My Powershot SD780 will arrive this week. I will carry it everyday in my pocket.