Category: NZTekonverse -> Canon
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SX 170 arrives
So this came down from Smiths City in Nelson, they must have about the last remaining stock in the whole country. Here it is side by side with the SX150 on its right. There are a few differences which don’t really bother me that much. The lens zoom ratio is a little higher as is…
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SX170 last of its kind
Six weeks ago I wrote about my plan to get a Powershot SX170 as a replacement for the little Ixus camera I had. I am now following through with that plan as the model has been officially withdrawn in NZ. Fortunately LV Martins / Smiths City still have a few as just about everyone else…
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Canon SX150, Lowepro Dashpoint 20 & Lowepro Apex 60
Once upon a time… Lowepro made the D-RES series of camera pouches. I had one of the smaller ones. It held every one of my AA battery pocket cameras and had plenty of internal pockets for extra batteries. With the AA cameras I had a spare set of rechargeables and a spare set of lithiums…
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SX150 again
So back to using the SX150 for the first time in 20 months and it’s great to be using such a good camera again. One of the reasons I stopped using it is because I couldn’t get a pouch that would hold two additional NiMH AAs as well as two lithium AAs for “emergency” backup.…
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How to set the image number you want on a Canon camera
As we all know the Canon cameras number images sequentially and this counter can be useful to know how many images you have taken on a camera. However when you take a memory card that has been used in a different camera and put it into your camera, the counter gets reset according to the…