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: Better than I expected - A great point and shoot
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this camera to replace a Panasonic Lumix DMC FX07A that was lost on a kayaking trip. I was pleasantly surprised at how wonderful the pictures turned out. The images are crisp and the camera is easy to use. Although slightly larger than my Panasonic, I find the large display and larger optical zoom more than make up for this difference. I am happy to be able to zoom while shooting video, a feature my Lumix did not offer. The lack of view finder, which I'm seeing in some reviews as a negative, is not an issue with me because the large display allows me to get a good visual on the subject, even in sunlight. I'm very pleased with the performance and feel of this camera.Digital camera Review: Big on Screen, Little on Usability
Summary: 4 Stars
This is my second Canon camera so I am obviously enough of a fan to purchase their products twice. I also only purchase another camera when the current one stops functioning for some reason, in this case it was nudged from its seat on the work bench by my wife's elbow, landing on the concrete floor of the garage. Things didn't work so well after that. I purchased the 870 after much consternation between it and the 850 based on the size of the lcd. Upon reflection, I never used the optical viewfinder on my other digital cameras so that main feature difference paled in comparison to a bigger lcd, which I use constantly to show friends photos on the fly. The only real issue is that the controls are right where I place my thumb on the back of the camera. At times, seemingly with increasing frequency, my thumb activates a mode change and the shot I am attempting to capture either must remain in the same state of paralysis or I miss it.
But all that said, I love the canon cameras. The picture quality is outstanding and for the little that I use the additional modes, they have functioned flawlessly.
Digital camera Review: Big surprise in a small package
Summary: 5 Stars
A home run. Usually travel with a big SLR. Took this on a trip, shot over 480 pictures & 12 videos over the course of a week on a single battery charge. Mostly automatic, point & shoot. LCD large, bright enough for daylight use. Focus assist light illuminates shots and framing at night. None of the digital lag and pixellation that was so annoying on older LCD viewers. Big surprise: the pictures are GREAT!
I think the pictures are actually sharper than the Canon digital Rebel. While there are several scene adjustments possible, I took lots of great pics in a variety of lighting conditions using auto point & shoot. The camera picks settings on its own-- The only times I needed to override were shooting through glass (bus windows, museum cases) and higher speed action (friends running).
Color balance was great. On standard settings, 5X7 & 8X10's look good. Significantly better than Advantix film pix, in fact.
In the past, I haven't used the video features of my digital cameras. This one's a winner. The little "talkies" from the trip were priceless. The camera's up & running in about a second, so if you are a quick draw, you can catch action that you'd miss with a camcorder or minicamcorder. The video quality is great on a PC, and good enough to watch on TV, yet it doesn't hog too much memory, or burn the battery.
The big SLR guns are still the king for sports / action and heavy duty flash work. For fun, travel, laughs and convenience, this is the one.
I used a caseCanon PSC-55 Deluxe Leather Compact Case for SD430, SD500, SD550, SD600, SD630, SD700IS, SD800IS, SD850 IS, SD900,SD950IS & SD870IS Digital Camerason my belt to keep track of it.
It's a few more $$ than a lot of the pocket cameras out there. The only one I saw with comparable pictures was the Panasonic with a Leica lens. Others on our trip had Olympus and Kodak pocket cameras. In the same light, same conditions, pics from this camera were the sharpest, had more vibrant color, and exposure was right on > 90% of the time.
You can tell the difference between the cheap and faster memory cards. With the high speed card, it shoots as fast as you can. Image write time was noticeably slower with the $18.00 2 GB card, but movies still worked just fine. The extra $6 for a good memory card is probably worth it.
Digital camera Review: Blurry pictures without flash, color is off, neat close-up pics, face detection not great...
Summary: 2 Stars
This camera produces blurry pictures, unless you only take pictures with flash. Doesn't matter what settings you choose or anything, the pictures will be blurry unless you can get your subject to be very still (which kids, pets, and most adults don't do well). So much for image stabilization. The white balance color compared to real life is off when it comes to pictures indoors under incandescent/fluorescent lighting and selecting the different white balance settings doesn't help much. It does have good close-up/macro pictures with good detail. But if you are into that kind of picture-taking you should probably just go with a dSLR camera, not a point-and-shoot. Another neat thing is that it has a vertical/horizontal sensor for the display. If you tilt the camera vertically while viewing a picture, the picture will tilt the way you tilted the camera (except upside-down). There's no flash for shadows, only standard and no-flash. The face detection works ok, even though a lot of times if even just some hair is in someone's face or if they aren't looking right in the direction of the camera it won't detect their face. I don't like this camera, and will be sending it back for a different one. I doubt I will be buying another Canon after this...Digital camera Review: Bought A Default Canon Camera
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this camera back in April this year through Amazon. I didn't use it until the past week. Then I found out that the Date/Time setting doesn't work. It's not a major problem, but it can be very annoying that whenever I turned on the camera, the Date/Time setting popped up. I called Canon, I had to pay to ship in the camera to have it (a new camera) fix.