Canon PowerShot SX600 HS 16MP Digital Camera - Wi-Fi Enabled (Red)

This is a repurchase of an identical camera for my assistant and it is the best I've found. I've been in my current business where I take between 200 to 400 photos every week, sometimes more, and this camera carries the weight well. The video feature is very helpful as well. It can either video continually or it will provide a video clip prior to a photo snap, which is helpful for my business to be able to attach a verbal note to a pic. Sturdy, zooms well, takes nice clear pics. Battery life is really good as well. I just keep a spare and rotate them. Highly recommend this one!

Great little camera. My Nikon Coolpix had been freezing up and was not performing well. I missed too many shots while waiting for the camera to finish recording. I am VERY pleased with the photos I have taken so far. The 18x zoom is a nice boost from the 7x on the Nikon. It powers up quickly and is ready to snap away. Very good low light capability and close ups. Really like the creative shot function. Being able to upload pictures to Facebook from the camera is a nice plus since I do not take pictures with a phone. Never have to worry about the flash going off when you don't want it to since you have to actually flip the switch to activate it. I miss the touch screen on my Nikon, but the controls on this Canon are very user friendly.

This camera does most of what its predecessor did and then a little bit more. First of all, I've had three versions of this camera and each iteration gets better and better with night image quality and zoom. Whereas I could barely take a night photo with my first Canon advanced point and shoot, this one does it without even requiring a tripod. In fact, I've actually photographed another plane from my plane (which was bouncing around) and got some useable shots (after a bit of lightening with photoshop). The 16x zoom on this camera is fantastic and the zoom is actually why I still use a camera instead of my phone when I'm touring. Being that I have never taken a photography class, this camera offers more features than I could possibly hope to use. One of the new features is the ability to connect to a phone app via wifi, which allows you to view your photos from your phone and transfer them to your phone as well. Additionally, you can use your phone app as a remote to activate your shutter. Lastly, you can use the app to track your position so that you can upload this data to your photos after shooting with the camera. This last feature was required as a result of the fact that the camera no longer has its own GPS to keep track of positional data (as opposed to the previous camera which did have a GPS). I guess the new wifi circuitry took up the room where the GPS used to be. Using your phone's GPS is sufficiently effective though (as long as you remember to go into the app and turn the feature on) and I do really like the ability to view photos on my phone and then transfer them over as well. I continue to be a bit disappointed that it doesn't have the ability to use AA batteries which I've found to be nice in a pinch with my first Canon (they went to battery packs by the time I bought my second). The battery life is substantial and typically lasts me throughout my outings as long as I top off the battery beforehand though. Finally, this phone is small enough to put in my pocket and I always say that the best camera that you can own is one that you'll actually carry around with you!

I bought one of these last year at Sam's for more money but it was for my wife's birthday and I was there and out of time. My daughter borrowed it for a trip to Alaska and promptly dropped it over a 30ft cliff where it landed on some boulders! Assuming it was toast, but knowing she had to bring it home, she went down and retrieved it to find out it only had two small scratches of the end and Nothing, and I mean Nothing was broken! The camera still works flawlessly and since my daughter is still hoarding that one, I bought this one again on Amazon. I can not argue with a camera that survives a 30ft drop off a cliff! It is the first camera my wife felt comfortable using and she like taking pictures with it! It has a decent image quality for its size and the pop-up flash is nice since you don't have to use the menu to control it! This is a fantastic camera!

I like to travel with a "real" camera in my pocket when I go for walks or on bike rides so I started looking for a nice light weight point n shoot camera. After shopping around the Canon SX600 HS caught my eye. The camera is just the right size and weight for me and it fits nicely in my pocket. The camera features a generous 18X optical zoom, built in flash, imagine stabilization, and a big bright LCD screen. I find the zoom to be quiet and fairly fast. Another feature the SX600 HS has that I was looking for was Wi-Fi for picture transfers. It's not completely easy to set up Wi-Fi picture transfers and sharing but it's not impossibly hard either. The software needed to set up Wi-Fi between the camera and your phone or computer (Windows or IOS) must be downloaded from Canon's online website. However, for those who don't want to fuss with setting up the Wi-Fi you can still transfer pictures the old way with a USB cable or card reader but you miss out on the polished picture transfer interface provided by the Canon software. The instruction manual that comes with the camera is pretty bare bones but for anyone who has owned a digital camera before operation of this camera should be simple. So far I find that the camera takes excellent pictures in in most lighting situations. I recommend the Canon SX600 HS camera to anyone looking for a nice value priced Wi-Fi enabled point n shoot pocket camera.

I think this is probably a really nice camera. It certainly has a lot of features, but I have no idea how to use them. It came with a "Getting Started" booklet that told me how to put in the batteries, turn the camera on and off and which button to push to take a picture. I could have figured that out for myself. What it did not come with is a manual What I cannot figure out is how to use the features. I cannot delete a picture from the camera, I do not know how to turn the flash off and on, I cannot always find my pictures after I have taken them. I push buttons on the back at random and all sorts of stuff comes up that is a total mystery to me. There is a bunch of cute little icons on the back of the camera. I can tell when the battery is low and that is about it. There are pictures and numbers that are meaningless to me. One number is 137' 10". Really? I have no clue why my camera would tell me "137 feet 10 inches" There is a little hand that looks like it is telling me not to do something. It is a just very expensive point and shoot camera if you do not have a manual for it. I could find nothing on the Canon website about obtaining a manual. I have emailed them about where to obtain one and if they get back to me and I get a manual, I will change my rating and review. What kind of a hare-brained company sends out a camera and assumes the person receiving it has to be told how to put batteries in and how to turn it on and off, but will know how to use the advanced features?

PROS: The camera itself is good for people who don't want to fiddle with settings. I left it on auto mode for a trip to Europe and was mostly happy with image quality in all light levels. The SX600 performs especially well in low light, but the default settings also tend to over-expose in bright sunlight or with backlit subjects, and captures a lot of lens flare (J.J. Abrams fans rejoice!) CONS: The camera is Wi-Fi ONLY. This means you cannot connect it to your PC with a cable for transferring images! You have to install Canon's camera software which makes changes to your PCs media sharing and WiFi network settings. For a camera that is otherwise very easy to use, getting the images onto the PC is a hassle, has poor documentation, and should not require network security changes. Transfer speed is also highly dependent on proximity to your wireless access point, so if you experience really slow file copying, put the camera right next to your router. This would have been a 5-star review if the software had been as simple to use as the camera.

I used this camera a lot on my recent two week vacation and the pictures and video were always excellent. The video on my big screen looks outstanding, which was one feature I really counted on from this camera since my old 12MP Canon still took great pictures after 6 years. The other features I wanted that were not available combined prior to this release in one Canon point-and-shoot camera along with the Full HD video were 18x zoom, 16MP and the WIFI. The only knock would be the battery life is not as good as it could be, but then the recent reviews on other new Canons warned me about this, so I merely bought a second knock-off which was well worth it. Don't let this affect your decision to buy this camera. I can only guess that some bad comments are related to reviewers that wanted to knock this camera for their own reason...some comments are so ridiculous they can be quickly dismissed. Please do and go buy this camera, you won't be disappointed.

Nice and slim. Fairly simple to start taking pics. Haven't had much chance to use it yet

It's a very good camera. Just meet what I need.

Rápida, con buena resolución, fácil de manejar y con un buen programa de ayuda para la captura de fotos. Sumamente recomendada para quien desee tomar fotos por diversión.

A great camera with a decent price point.

Buena relación calidad-precio, es sencilla de manejar y toma buenos videos. Se requiere leer el manual para que el flash funcione adecuadamente.