キヤノン (Canon) (Canon (キヤノン)) TX1

Connectivity
Software
The Canon PowerShot TX1 comes with the same Canon Solution Disk CD-ROM that comes with other Digital Elph cameras. This will be disappointing for users who want to take advantage of the HD video; there is no video editing software for them to use.

Jacks, ports, plugs
On the bottom of the camera is a very thin rubber rectangle that patches over the three jacks on the TX1’s body. The cover must be pried open with a fingernail, and there isn’t much of a finger grip. The rubber material is very thin and feels like it could break at any moment. Two of the jacks are familiar to compact digital camera users: AV and USB jacks are found on almost all models. The TX1 has separate jacks along with a jack labeled "Component." This is what connects the camera to HDTVs. There is a rubber cover on the battery compartment door that opens so the power adaptor can be attached.

Direct Print Options
In the playback menu, a print menu appears as a tab with the other menus. It allows users to select images to print by date, category, and folder. Pictures can also be selected individually, the quantity can be specified, and added to the print order. The camera has a Print/Share button atop the camera that transfers images to PictBridge printers, but the button can be set to perform other functions too. With Canon Pixma printers and CP and Selphy compact photo printers, ID Photo Print and Movie Print modes are available.

Battery
The TX1 comes with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that doesn’t get as much life as it ought to. The NB-4L battery snaps only 160 shots per charge or 240 minutes of playback time. These specs are a bit disturbing as recording video is often more taxing on a camera than snapping still images. I did not get to test the battery life on the show floor, but the specs make me think that the TX1 won’t be able to record video for very long at all. The Canon booth representatives guessed that the battery would last about an hour of shooting video, which is as long as a video can be recorded to memory. This will have to tested further – and I must admit that I’m a bit skeptical.

Memory
The Canon PowerShot TX1 comes with a 32 MB MMC card, which won’t last long with this camera. The 7.1-megapixel digital camera’s main feature is its HD movie mode. High definition video takes up a lot of memory – and that’s not something that comes with the TX1. The digital camera can accept SD, SDHC, MMC, and MMC Plus cards up to 4 GB. This is enough to get 26 minutes of HD video. There is no internal memory on the TX1.

Other features
Sound Recorder – This feature is located in the playback menu, although it seems very oddly placed because it has nothing to do with playback. This feature simply records stereo audio up to the capacity of the memory card and saves it as its own file rather than attaching it to an image like the sound memo feature.