Manual Exposure Mode A correct exposure of a landscape shot is very important. Even though modern digital cameras features advanced algorithms to calculate the right exposure, they still may fail some difficult conditions. Manual exposure mode in these conditions helps a lot in order to achieve correct exposure.
Manual Focus Mode With the manual focus mode, you can make fine adjustments to have the perfect focus.
24 mm - Good Wide Angle Coverage Even though there are very good examples of landscapes photos taken with tele lenses, most of the landscape photos are taken with wide angle lenses.
Average sized 1″ (12.8 x 9.6 mm) sensor Canon XC10's 1″ (12.8 x 9.6 mm) sensor size doesn't provide image quality of larger sensors but it is still much better then compacts with typical small sensors.
Average Resolution Sensor: 12.0MP Canon XC10's 12.0MP resolution is not ideal for landscape photography but you can still achieve large prints with good framing and technique.
No RAW shooting capability RAW files contains much more color information compared to JPEGs, and gives you more room for post processing without significant quality loss. They provide wider dynamic range and option to recover shadow and highlight clipping to some degree.
No Environmental Sealings Landscape photographs are taken outdoors and you should be prepared for all kind of weather conditions.