4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
Excellent point and shoot camera but can be used for serious use.
Date of Review: Apr 7, 2007
The Bottom Line: If you want a camera on AA batteries with reasonably good videos and IS, this is great choice in my opinion.
This camera takes excellent photos. Features-wise, I think this is the best in A series and SD series as this is only Camera with IS, Digic III and improved face detection (not only detects face but set exposure, focus and flash accordingly). SD800/900 have FD but newer cameras SD1000 and this have improved FD as per canon site.
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=14905
On monitor I thought of noise or darkened photos but was perfect in printout. Yes flash recycling is slow but that is the price you pay for having 2 AA battery. I feel that it is big convenience as it work on AA batteries. Movie mode is good. I compared this with SD1000side by side and I would say photo quality seems identical to me but where this camera was winner was video quality. Besides this has IS. One experiment I did that having exposure compensation -2/3 gives better shots.Indoor mode gives good photo in low lighting. White balance works perfectly for tungston light .
No purpule fringing and rare red eye as in earlier A or SD series camera.
Batterywise it has good battery-life. Be sure to get 2500 mAh batteries and at least 2 GB of SD card. 2GB SD card can record movies upto around 16 minutes and 4 GB card will allow around 32 minutes of video in full quality mode. So it can work as your video camera for casual use.
