Canon PowerShot SD870IS 8MP Digital Camera with 3.8x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black) by Canon
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Digital camera reviews of Canon PowerShot SD870IS 8MP Digital Camera with 3.8x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)
Digital camera Review: Excellent camera with all the bells and whistles!
Summary: 5 Stars
This camera is both quite simple and adequately complex at the same time. I can use it easily as a great point-and-shoot and love the pics but also learn something new every week that it can do. The sky seems to be the limit with this camera.Digital camera Review: Excellent camera!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am thrilled with all that this camera has to offer - the wide angle lens, all the scene modes, macro capability, etc. I've owned other Canon Power Shots in the past and this one excels them all! I couldn't have chosen a better all-around camera - it's definitely one that will be taken EVERYwhere to capture all the images I desire to get!Digital camera Review: Excellent camera, easy to use
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this camera recently before my Disneyland trip. I spent over 2 week researching for several different cameras and finally setteled for this one. I am glad I bought this camera. Picture quality is excellent. Camera is very easy to operate, even my 9 year old can take nice pictures with this camera. I was impressed by the clarity of "night mode" snaps.
Wide angle is definitely a big advantage with this camera.
Only negative I found was lasck of view finder, which I thought could be very useful in bright sunlight.
Overall, a great camera. Worth buying.
Digital camera Review: Excellent scenery pictures, poor others
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had the Canon PowerShot SD870 IS for about 2 years now, and I've realized that it's GREAT for scenery pictures--landscapes, buildings, sunsets, etc--but when it comes to photographing people, the picture quality is awful (especially when taken indoors). All of my friends hate my camera because they claim that it "makes them look ugly." Haha, sounds ridiculous, I know, but it truly does not make people look good AT ALL! I've taken it to Best Buy, compared its settings with the Canon cameras on the floor to make sure I didn't have it on some weird setting, and it STILL just takes awful pictures of people. It has cool features and is very easy to use, but its weaknesses are things that I consider most important in a camera. So, it's definitely not the camera for me!Digital camera Review: Exellent Point & Shoot Camera!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had my own SD870IS camera for about 10 months, and it has retained it's reliability and speed. When I was in the market, I was looking for some features that I wanted in a compact Point & Shoot. Here are those features, and this camera has them:
-Better than average video quality
-fast speed between pressing the shutter button and shooting the photo.
-Very short "Power-up & Ready" time
-Widescreen Shooting Capability
-Big clear LCD display
-Few buttons
-Good Look and Feel
-Solid Biuld
-Long Battery Life
-Support for High Capacity SD cards
-Exellent Macro Capability
I will briefly talk about each of these features.
I was quite surprised of the video quality that this camera produces.
It compresses the video little, hence the quality, using "Motion JPEG" compression. You will be pleased. You can also shoot video in Macro, which is quite impressive.
When you press the shutter button(after pressing half way for focus in some situations), you get a very quick response. This camera also has very short "power-up & ready" time.
I am pleased with the Widescreen shootng Capability this camera has. The wide photos look exellent. This is the shooting mode I use most.
The SD870IS has a vivid 3" LCD display. The brightness is adjustable ofcourse. Aside the display are the main buttons. The functions from top to bottom are: Playback(videos & stills), Direct Print and Multifuction button, directional and Multifunction wheel, camera menu, LCD display options.
I have been on so many occasions with this camera where I shot photos constantly. The battery always lets me exceed 200+ photos. I keep two batterys on me. I rarely have to get out the second battery. This Camera uses a very good proprietary Lithium Ion battery.
I'm thankful for the support for SDHC(Secure Digital High Capacity)that this camera provides. With the Multi Gigabytes worth of photos I shoot on each occassion, my 4 Gigabyte SDHC card always suits me.
I am very pleased with the close-ups I shoot with this camera. I shoot close-ups very often. And about 90% of those photos turn out extremely good.
I hope this review helps you. I am very pleased with the Canon SD870IS compact Point & Shoot.