| Package dimensions | 16.2 x 14.2 x 7.4 centimetres |
|---|---|
| Package Weight | 680 Grams |
| Item dimensions L x W x H | 33 x 106 x 61 millimetres |
| Item Weight | 224 Grams |
| Brand | Canon |
| Colour | Black |
| Has image stabilisation | Yes |
| ISO Range | 3200 |
| Max Focal Length | 90 Millimetres |
| Memory Slots Available | 1 |
| Min Focal Length | 4.5 Millimetres |
| Minimum shutter speed | 1/3200 seconds |
| Model year | 2012 |
| Part number | 6197B012AA |
| Zoom Type | Optical Zoom |
| Maximum shutter speed | 30 seconds |
| Effective still resolution | 12.1 MP |
Canon Powershot SX240 HS Digital Camera - Black (12.1 MP, 20x Optical Zoom) 3.0 Inch LCD
| Model name | Powershot SX240 HS |
| Brand | Canon |
| Form factor | Compact |
| Skill level | Professional |
| Special feature | Video Recording |
| Colour | Black |
| Shooting modes | Movie, Macro, Manual, Scene, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Sports |
| Optical sensor size | 1/2,3'' |
| Lens type | Wide Angle |
| Item Weight | 224 Grams |
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| Customer Rating | 4.4 out of 5 stars (388) | 4.5 out of 5 stars (582) | 4.7 out of 5 stars (2251) | 4.4 out of 5 stars (724) |
| Price | From £129.99 | £220.00 | £219.00 | £119.00 |
| Sold By | Available from these sellers | technolove | PHOTOGEARS | Amazon.co.uk |
| Colour | Black | Black | Black | Silver |
| Connectivity Technology | HDMI | Wi-Fi, NFC | Bluetooth, USB, HDMI, Wi-Fi | USB |
| Digital Zoom | 4x | 4x | 4x | 4x |
| Screen Size | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 2.7 inches |
| Effective Still Resolution (in Megapixels) | 12.1 megapixels | 20.2 megapixels | 16 megapixels | 20.5 megapixels |
| Has Image Stabilization | Yes | Yes | Yes | — |
| Item Dimensions | 3.27 x 10.63 x 6.1 cm | 9.7 x 2.8 x 5.5 cm | 9.49 x 11.35 x 7.83 cm | 9.5 x 5.8 x 2.4 cm |
| Item Weight | 224 grams | 180 grams | 0.54 kg | 130 grams |
| Maximum Focal Length (in millimetre) | 90 millimetres | 625 millimetres | 160 millimetres | 40 |
| Minimum Focal Length (in millimetre) | 4.5 millimetres | 25 millimetres | 4 millimetres | 5 |
| Model Year | 2012 | 2016 | 2016 | 2018 |
| Optical Sensor Resolution | 12.1 megapixels | 20.2 megapixels | 16 megapixels | 20 megapixels |
| Size of the Optical Sensor | 1/2,3'' | 1/2.3 type back-illuminated CMOS | — | 1/2.3' |
| Optical Zoom | 20x | 25x | 40 | 8x |
| Removable Memory | Secure Digital Card, Secure Digital Card | SDHC | Secure Digital Card | Secure Digital Card |
| Special Features | Video Recording | — | Auto focusing (AF) modes: Contrast Detection Auto Focus | — |
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| ASIN | B0074K1JUE |
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| Item model number | 6197B012AA |
| Date First Available | 7 Feb. 2012 |
| Customer Reviews |
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Powerful, compact super-zoom with full HD movies for high quality results
The PowerShot SX240 HS is slim and compact yet it boasts an impressive 20x optical zoom. It is also packed with Canon features to help you capture great shots, effortlessly, making it an ideal camera for all family trips and occasions. Canon’s HS System and Intelligent IS help ensure your images are sharp, clear and vibrant whatever the light conditions, whilst full HD movies allow you to capture all the action in perfect detail.
Features include:
- 25 mm wide-angle lens with 20x optical zoom, extending to 39x with ZoomPlus
- Optical Image Stabilizer with Intelligent IS
- 12.1 megapixel high-sensitivity CMOS sensor
- Canon’s HS System, featuring a DIGIC 5 processor for excellent low-light performance
- Advanced full HD movies (1080p) and HDMI-CEC
- Large 7.5 cm (3.0”) PureColor II G LCD screen (460k dots)
- Smart Auto with Advanced Scene Detection for great results in 58 different situations
- Face ID can recognise and prioritise your family and friends
- Manual, Av and Tv modes for full creative control
- High-speed shooting functions including High-speed Burst HQ, Super Slow Motion Movie and Handheld Night Scene
- Movie Digest records 4 seconds before each shot to create a bonus movie
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High-end super-zoom in a compact body
The PowerShot SX240 HS benefits from Canon’s class-leading lens technology. The slim, compact body boasts a 25 mm wide-angle lens with an impressive 20x optical zoom. This provides outstanding telephoto reach and therefore gives you increased flexibility when framing your shot. At 25 mm, the lens allows you to fit more in the frame, which is perfect for group shots. However, when extended to its maximum range, the 20x optical zoom ensures you capture all the detail, even when photographing distant subjects.
In addition to the optical zoom, the PowerShot SX240 HS also features Canon’s advanced digital zoom technology, ZoomPlus. This extends the camera’s overall zoom range to 39x, without losing sharpness and detail in the image as a conventional digital zoom would.
Incredibly sharp images whatever the situation
The PowerShot SX240 HS also benefits from Canon’s Intelligent IS technology. Whether you’re shooting stills or movies, Intelligent IS automatically identifies the shooting situation and then selects the most appropriate type of optical image stabilization from 7 modes. For example, when capturing a close-up of a flower the camera will automatically select Macro IS with Hybrid IS technology, but then it will automatically switch to Powered IS when filming distant subjects with the zoom. This allows you to focus on framing the image you want, safe in the knowledge that the camera is working to eliminate as much camera shake as possible, even if you need to move with your scene.
Capture the scene exactly as you see it with Canon’s HS System
The power of Canon’s HS System comes from the combination of the 12.1 megapixel high-sensitivity CMOS sensor and Canon’s advanced DIGIC 5 processor. The HS System gives incredibly high image quality in all light conditions and enables the camera to capture a wider dynamic range, reducing over-exposure of highlighted areas and loss of detail in the shadows. This means that you can preserve your memories in perfect detail, whether in stills or video.
Outstanding results in low light
Canon’s HS System truly excels in low light conditions. It can often be challenging to capture well exposed subjects inside against dark backgrounds, or outside in low light; the flash range is often not sufficient to light up the background but turning it off can cause blurring from the instability of handheld shooting. Canon’s HS System reduces the camera’s reliance on flash in low-light situations - background illumination is improved, dark areas are reduced, and camera shake is controlled, maintaining complete image clarity and eliminating blur. As a result you can capture great low-light images without needing to use the flash as often.
Less noise, clearer detail
The HS System allows for significant noise reduction at all ISO levels while maintaining accurate colours and crisp detail, allowing the camera to capture the natural ambience of dimly-lit environments without the flash. Shots are striking and detailed, with the 12.1 megapixel sensor capturing more than enough detail to reproduce images onto large poster-sized formats.
Advanced full high definition movies
For moments that are best caught on video, the PowerShot SX240 HS offers extremely high quality video performance with the capability to record advanced full HD movies at 1080p. Canon’s Detail Movie Processing technology allows you to capture full HD movies that benefit from even more detail and clarity than ever before, whilst HDMI-CEC compatibility ensures optimum playback on High Definition televisions. The 20x optical zoom is also available during filming, allowing you to get really close to the action, plus Smart Auto can detect 21 different types of scene, ensuring it looks just as you see it.
Large, high quality display
The PowerShot SX240 HS features a large 7.5 cm (3.0") PureColor II G LCD. This high quality 460k dot screen makes framing and reviewing images easy, even from difficult angles or in bright light. Meanwhile, the outer layer of toughened scratch resistant glass ensures that the display has extra durability.
Effortless shooting, superb results
When you're taking photographs, the only thing you want to think about is your subject, so Canon’s Smart Auto mode removes the worry of deciding which settings to select. It enables the camera to intelligently select the appropriate settings so you can concentrate on your subject.
In Smart Auto mode, Canon’s Advanced Scene Detection Technology automatically analyses shooting conditions – detecting people, distance, brightness, colour and movement information – then selects the perfect setting from 58 specially defined scenes. So whether you're photographing flowers, a captivating sunset or friends in the park you can be confident you're getting the perfect image.
Smart Auto is also more than just scene detection. It allows the camera to identify moving subjects to ensure the focus and exposure are always correct. For sharp close-ups the camera automatically switches to Macro mode and Smart Flash Exposure optimises exposure and flash controls to ensure your subject is perfectly lit whilst dark and light areas are accurately reproduced.
Additionally, Multi-area White Balance correction enables incredibly accurate colour reproduction. For example, usually when shooting indoors where the subject is lit by flash and the background is illuminated by artificial lighting, the multiple light sources can distort the colours in the image. But Canon’s Multi-area White Balance correction eliminates this problem so that the natural skin tones of the subject are retained, whilst the colours in the background also remain true-to-life.
Prioritise your family and friends
Face ID allows you to register up to 12 faces with names and birthdays so that the camera can automatically prioritise these individuals in every shot. Once the faces have been registered, Smart Auto uses the information to prioritise focus on these faces, regardless of how many other subjects are in the frame. This ensures that the camera always captures the best possible images of the people who are most important to you. It also makes it easy to search for photographs of specific friends or family members when you play back your images.
Additionally, Face ID uses the birthdays that you register to work in conjunction with Smart Auto to enable you to take better photographs in a range of different situations. For example, if Smart Auto detects a baby (0 – 2 years old) in the frame that is smiling it will automatically take multiple images and then select the best image for you.
Choice of manual shooting modes
The PowerShot SX240 HS gives you the flexibility to be as creative as you want. The semi-automatic Av (aperture priority) and Tv (shutter priority) modes allow you to control just one single aspect of exposure whilst the camera takes care of all the other settings. Alternatively, Full Manual lets you take complete control of all settings so you can really explore your creativity.
High-speed shooting
The high-sensitivity CMOS sensor also offers the capability to shoot at super high speeds which provides excellent benefits in a range of situations.
High-speed Burst HQ
In High-speed Burst HQ mode the PowerShot SX240 HS can shoot up to 10 full resolution images with a speed of 10.3 shots per second, so whether you’re shooting sports events or everyday life in motion you will never miss a moment of the action.
Super Slow Motion Movie
Super Slow Motion Movie mode slows down fast-moving subjects by capturing QVGA resolution video at a staggering 240 frames per second (or in VGA resolution at 120fps) - which can then be played back at normal speed for a spectacular slow motion effect. This is perfect for analysing a golf swing, recording a bird in flight or just for a bit of fun. The software included with the camera supports multi-speed playback, allowing you to view your footage both at real or slow motion speed.
Handheld Night Scene
Handheld Night Scene mode allows you to capture clear, detailed night scenes. With this mode selected the camera takes consecutive high speed shots and then combines the image data into a single image, ensuring the best possible exposure with the least amount of blur – perfect for handheld shots taken at night.
Capture everything with the Movie Digest feature
Unique to Canon cameras, Movie Digest allows you to create an HD quality (720p) quality film telling the story behind the images you’ve captured that day. Every time a still image is captured, the preceding 4 seconds is automatically recorded as a movie clip - these are then automatically collated into one complete video showing the highlights of the day.
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If you can put up with this lack of viewfinder I can thoroughly recommend the sx240hs. The battery does not last very long and I would recommend buying a spare one which I have done. I cannot comment on its video characteristics as I have not yet got round to taking videos. If it had not been for the lack of viewfinder I would have given it 5 stars.
So this compact alternative, which I usually have with me wherever I go, has to be able to give me good quality pictures. Which it does. The fully auto settings give reliable auto-focus and auto-exposure, as do shutter priority and aperture priority settings. If you feel the need for it (I do sometimes), the exposure compensation is very quick and easy to engage so you can override the auto-exposure without ignoring it completely.
The image stabilisation (IS) works very well, giving remarkably sharp pictures even in poorer light. Particularly useful when using the ridiculously long zoom setting. I say ridiculously long, as 20x seems barely possible in such a modestly sized camera. So I guess that makes it equivalent to a range of 24-480. Of course, whether the image is stabilised or not, it can be tricky holding a camera steady with such a long zoom engaged, but with care (or with a tripod) it is possible. I have managed some decent sharp close-ups of some of the wildlife in our garden, as well as landscapes, buildings and people.
The ISO setting is easily adjusted. I tend to leave it at 200 most of the times, changing it to 400 sometimes when the light is poor, just to reduce to likelihood of camera shake. I have the picture quality set to the maximum, and whether at 200 or 400, the resulting pictures have natural looking colours and good balanced exposures, for a variety of subject types.
The lithium battery lasts well. I have a (non-Canon) spare which I keep in the case with the camera, and at any given time I could not tell you which one is in the camera, so my experience of battery life must apply to both of them!
As noted by other reviewers, no it does not have a viewfinder for use in bright conditions, but my previous compact did, and I hardly ever used it, so decided it was not crucial. I have the screen set to maximum brightness at all times. This will no doubt use more power, but this is maybe offset because I have review set to off. i.e. when I've taken a picture, it does not get displayed automatically on the screen. If I want to see it, I use the review button, otherwise (most of the time) I just want the screen live ready for taking the next picture.
The auto-focus assist light is useful (i.e. it works!), especially in lower light where the camera might otherwise struggle to work out what to focus on, but you can turn it off if you wish to.
The camera has an HD movie function too, but I have never used used it and probably never will, so can make no comment on it.
I have large hands and wondered whether this would be OK to hold easily, but that insignificant-looking grip on the front is remarkably effective and gives me something for my fingers to hold on to. In contrast, my wife's Lumix, while a perfectly good camera, I find difficult to hold.
Make no mistake, if you want an SLR, then don't buy this, buy a good quality SLR with a good quality lens.
But if you're after a conveniently sized, lightweight compact with a long zoom, lots of shooting options, able to give you consistently good quality photos, then this is a very reasonably priced Canon.






















