Canon PowerShot D10

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Manual Controls

The PowerShot D10 has limited manual controls, which isn't really surprising given the type of camera it is.

Focus

The focal modes for the Canon can be set to macro, normal, infinity, and, surprisingly, manual focus. The manual setting is controlled by the up and down buttons on the four-way controller.

ISO

At full resolution, the ISO runs from 80-1600, with 3200 at reduced image size.

White Balance

The white balance selection is fairly standard, with an addition for aquatic adventures. Along with custom and auto, there's sun, cloud, tungsten, fluorescentL, fluorescentH, and underwater.

Metering

No surprises here: the metering can be set to evaluative, center-weighted, or spot.

Shutter Speed

The D10 can take exposures up to 15 seconds long, or as fast as 1/1500 of a second. This is a respectable range at the long end, but it could be faster.

Aperture

The aperture can not be manually set on this camera, and maxes out at f/2.8 wide and f/4.9 at tele, so if you're nice and close to a shark, you'll get a great exposure.

Image Stabilization

The D10 uses optical image stabilization, which moves the camera's lens to try and compensate for hande shake.

Picture Quality & Size Options

Image size runs from 4000 x 3000 down to 640 x 480, and image compression can be set to normal or fine.

Picture Effects

For this camera, the picture effects are called My Colors. Using this set of options you can chose vivid, neutral, sepia, black and white, positive, lighter skin tone, darker skin tone, vivid blue, vivid green, vivid red, or custom.