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3.0 out of 5 starsOne glaring negative for me
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2021
I just got this a few days ago so, admittedly, I have not put it through its paces fully yet. But there are a coupla things that stand out from my short time with it:
--After lugging around a 7D forever, I thought I was ready for compact, but sophisticated point-and--shoot. I landed on this camera and man, is it small. I have fairly large hands and I'm getting the feeling this might not be for me. Too often I've pushed a button unintentionally compromising a shooting opportunity.
--But the REALLY big problem I have with it is manual focus. I spent WAY too much time researching for a camera that sounded attractive and within my price-point, and nowhere did I see/hear anyone talk about how awful the manual focusing procedure is (I like manual focusing!). Heck, even Canon's manual doesn't go into detail. I find it unconscionable that you have to select from the control dial on the back, select MF, and then hurry up and get it focused because if you take too long the viewfinder reverts to shoot mode and you have to go back to the control dial to select MF again so that the focus controls reappear. And even if you are facile enough to get a shot off, guess what? You have to go though the whole select MF again to get the controls back. Well, and the MF controls themselves are a joke. The whole process in unintuitive.
Boy, I have to say, just writing this out makes me want to return it. Nuts.
