Great all purpose digital camera
Pros:
10x optical image stabilized zoom
Microdrive compatible
Hot shoe
Cons:
Canon software doesn't retain shooting info when converting RAW files
The Bottom Line:
If you can find one, buy it. It will serve almost everyone's needs.
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Author's Review
Today, everyone is looking for more pixels. Too bad - the herds are missing out on this great camera. True, you won't get a very pretty 16x20 out of it, but how many people actually print 16x20 photos, or have got monitors running at more than 2.1 megapixels? So, what do they give up? Their time. Twice as many pixels takes twice as long to transfer, to save to disk, to load, etc.
With more pixels, you've got more image to crop from, however, this causes you to loose quality. Just like using digital zoom. As soon as you use digital zoom, a 4 megapixel camera becomes a 1 megapixel camera. The solution is proper cropping of the image, before you take it. The way to do this is to use the right lens, and this Canon's got it!
THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS CAMERA IS THE LENS. No question. The 10x optical zoom is the 35mm equivalent of 37-370mm. Yes, more powerful than your average set of binoculars. Most digicams today have only the 35mm equivalent of 35-70 or 35-100. So, at full zoom, your image is 10-15 times larger. To match this with the typical 2-3X zoom, you'd need 20-30 megapixels!
