The Poweshot SX200IS cameras front and back

You used to be able to guess how long it would go by looking at it’s resting size. That was then. These days even the smaller ones reach out farther than you might think. For example lets look at the new Canon Powershot SX200IS camera. Shorter than an iPhone and about three times as thick, (I used to use “the pack of cigarettes” reference as a comparison gauge for things like this, but…) it is a small package. That is until you turn it on, turn it on and zoom the lens and it just goes and goes. Zooming 12x from its 28mm wide starting point all the way out to 336 mm equivalent maximum it has power in a small package! There’s also 12.1 megapixels, optical stabilizer, 3inch LCD screen even HD movie capture, it has all the stuff you would expect in this generation of Canon Powershot cameras, but the zoom in that package. Not what you expected, Wow.

Just like it says, 12x Zoom. Cool huh?