The Canon PowerShot SX200 IS is a well-built camera with a high quality metal body, with our review sample finished in an attractive metallic blue with silver accents. This is a great entry level camera for me. I never had a DSLR but I used a d70s at work. It lacks of AF motor which limit the prime lens that can be used. However, I feel that it is ok without prime lens since I won’t be doing serious photography. The design is dominated by the large 12x lens on the front and the large 3 inch LCD screen on the rear.
There is no optical viewfinder, which follows a recent trend in digital cameras, and this does make the camera a little harder to keep steady at the telephoto end of the zoom than holding it up to your eye. This camera was bought for replace my Canon Reble Xt. It has better feature like the VR kit len and higher pixels. The disadvantage is that the material used for body construction is kind of cheap. The len also feel cheap.
The SX200’s lens isn’t particularly fast at either the wide-angle or telephoto settings though. The 12x zoom lens obviously makes this one of the most versatile compacts around in terms of focal range, especially as it is coupled with Canon’s excellent Image Stabilizer, which helps to ensure that the majority of photos taken in good light are sharp, providing 4 stops of compensation.