Canon PowerShot SD750 7.1-Megapixel Digital Camera - Silver

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Solid Camera, great pictures and easy to use
Reviewer: Peter from Whitestone, NY on Apr 24, 2007
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I just bought this camera and am very happy with it. I was trying to decide between this one, the canon 800is, and the sony n2.

The 800is had image stabalization for the same price, but i found the array of buttons and knobs on the back to be hard touse. One of the main things i wanted in a camera was ease of use since its a point and shoot. I decided against the sony n2 becuase i'm wary of touch screens, and also heard canon has a better picture (although i'm sure the n2's picture is great also)

Now on to the camera...

The one thing I really liked is that its simple to use. Every function or option can be accessed by either pressing the function or menu button, and then its right there in the menu. There are no dials to switch, and you don't have to have an adventure finding an option thru a maze of menus. There is also the playback button, where you can view the pictures you just took which is very very helpful, id go crazy switching some dial back and forth each time i wanted to see a picture i just took.

Picture Quality - I gave this a 4. On the normal setting the pictures turn out excellent. Better than I could imagine.. you really don't need image stabalization for regular pictures. The reason I put a 4 is becuase when you use the color accent mode the pictures seem slightly blurry.. not sure why this is. Other than that the colors seem to come out correctly. I'm not a camera expert but everything seems accurate.

Features- I gave this a 4 also becuase while it does have some nice features, not many are usable for everyday shooting. The color accent feature is kinda cool. The stich-assist seems very cool but havne't put a picture together like it yet. The macro function is also cool and works well. The optical zoom is good,its not great, but it gets the job done when you need to zoom in some. Whats good is that you zoom up to 3x optical (does not degrade image quality), and then it stops to let you know your going to begin to start the digital zoom (does degrade image quality).

Another cool feature was the ability to press the shutter-button half way down, which focused the shot, and then when you pressed it all the way down there was zero shutter lag. So you still can get shots of those split-second moments, as longasyou have the foresight to focus it before hand. Even if you don't do that, there is very little lag, probably half a second or less.

Movie mode is also good and easy to use. On the top of the camera is a switch between camera mode and movie mode.Thisis the only switch, but its simple and not a dial. Movies are probably as good a quality as you're going to get from a digital camera. I reccommend buying a large memory card (at least 2 gigs) if you plan on taking movies. However, this is wherethe image stabalization would really help. In the movies camera shake is pretty noticable.. .its not terrible but the image stabalization feature would have made this camera perfect.

Battery Life - I've read that its good, although my battery hasn'teven run out yet so i cant' tell you. One annoying thing is there is no battery life meter, so you have no idea when it'll run out. Its fairly simple to charge the battery. You take it out of the camera, put it in a device which plugs directly into the outlet. It takes about 90 minutes according to the manual to fully charge.

Cost-Benefit - If this camera had image stabalization it'd be worth every penny. If you can get it on sale go ahead (thats what i did).


Transfering the pitures to my computer wasfast and easy. You load the software, and then just plug the camera into the computer and thats about it. I would say the only downside to this camera is becuase of the super large (3') lcd, there is not alot of room to hold the camera. It canbe done,but its just not as easy as if you had a 2.5' screen. Also, there is absolutely no need for a viewfinder. I took some pictures in the bright sun the other day and could see the lcd perfectly fine. Supposedly its scratch resistant also, so we'll see onthat.

Cliff Notes : Overall i'm impressed and happy with the camera. Some things that would have been nice would have been image stabalization, a battery-life meter, and being able to output your video's in hd (i think the sony can) woulda been neat. One thing it had over the 800is is that it was a bit smaller. The size of it is perfect. In the end I was looking for something easy to use with a great picture, which is what I got.

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great camera!
Review posted on Aug 19, 2008
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Great point and shoot camera at an affordable price.
Reviewer: Joe from Fredericksburg, VA on Aug 15, 2008
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The digital zoom seems fuzzy on the screen until you take the picture. Then it does come out clear. I would recommend this camera.

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