Canon S120 review

Pocket sized premium compact is packed with exciting features

Canon PowerShot S120 review
The Canon PowerShot S120 has an f/1.8 aperture

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The S120 gives you full manual control over settings, meaning you can create long exposures such as this. Optical image stabilisation does a good job of helping to produce a blur-free image even when shooting handheld.

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Noise is apparent at very high sensitivities, such as ISO 3200 but, shared at smaller print and web sizes, the image is more than acceptable.

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Automatic white balance has done a good job of producing accurate colours even under the artificial lighting conditions of this scene.

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The S120's 24mm equivalent lens gives a great wide angle of view for a variety of different scenarios. It's slightly wider than the G16's 28mm.

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The S120 is now capable of shooting as wide as f/1.8, helping when you want to shoot low-light scenes.

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Colours are represented accurately by the S120, being bright and punchy without going over the top.

Amy Davies

Amy has been writing about cameras, photography and associated tech since 2009. Amy was once part of the photography testing team for Future Publishing working across TechRadar, Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, N Photo and Photography Week. For her photography, she has won awards and has been exhibited. She often partakes in unusual projects - including one intense year where she used a different camera every single day. Amy is currently the Features Editor at Amateur Photographer magazine, and in her increasingly little spare time works across a number of high-profile publications including Wired, Stuff, Digital Camera World, Expert Reviews, and just a little off-tangent, PetsRadar.