Canon PowerShot SX230 HS Review Discussion

[A. Sutton]

The biggest distinction between the new Canon PowerShot SX230 HS and its SX210 predecessor is an on-board GPS tracker. Users now have the option to geo-tag pictures when they push the shutter. It's hard to miss where the GPS chip is located on the SX230 - it's labeled alongside the shutter, a bump that takes up quite a bit of real estate on the top of the camera. As this seems to be an attractive sort of feature that camera manufacturers are migrating toward these days, this is Canon's first camera with this built-in technology.

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[Andy Stanton]

I'm glad to see that low light image quality has greatly improved compared to the SX210 IS. Image quality at 400 ISO on the SX230 HS is comparable to 200 ISO on the SX210 IS.

[leaftye]

Now I anxiously await the AA battery version of this thing. The gps isn't perfect, but hopefully that's something the folks at CHDK can address, specifically, to show the coordinates in UTM format while in shooting mode.