Though slightly chunky, the SX120 would still fit in your pocket if you were to force it enough. It feels retro grade, but again, it’s the same as most of the previous generations of SX PowerShot digital cameras, so there’s no new ground to be broken in design. It is sort of reminiscent of an older 35mm automatic film camera, as if Canon had left plenty of room for a film canister and crank. The best way I can describe the design is to call it “boxy.”

It is the same size, weight and has the same exterior controls as the SX110 IS. The Canon PowerShot SX120 IS is the spitting image of the SX110 IS, so not much can be said to those who already own this older generation model. Skip to the third page conclusions now if you are impatient (like me). Although they haven’t changed much in terms of designs or features for this model refresh, Canon’s mentality is sort of like Photoshop’s for their SX series it seems – keeping what people are used to using in new software, and then easing in new features with an upgrade so as not to alienate their customers.īut is the SX120 IS worth the upgrade if you already use the SX110 IS? I’ll seek an answer to that question below. The SX120 IS offers only minor changes to the SX110 IS, including advanced face detection, slightly smaller 1/2.5 inch image sensor (the SX110 IS has a 1/2.3 inch CCD) and enhanced battery life when using the power save mode. Some of the shared features of the SX110 IS and the SX120 IS are a 10x optical zoom, a 3.0 inch LCD, manual control, in-camera processing, the same exact dimensions and weight, and the fact that they both takes AA batteries.

In the August 2009 announcement of the new PowerShot SX models, we saw the move from the SX110 IS and SX10 IS to the newer SX120 IS and SX20 IS.

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