Richard Walker asked:

Copyright (c) 2009 Richard Walker

When buying a digital camera, you have either a choice to get a solid camera performer or a versatile shooter that can do many tricks, but still take good pictures. Here are two wonderful cameras that may suit one of your preferences and your budget as well.

Canon PowerShot SD880 IS

The Canon PowerShot SD880 IS is a slightly high-end camera that is priced around $250, which is not bad for a 10-megapixel shooter that has splendid photo quality. In fact, the sleek design and the photo quality alone is what makes this camera winner.

Features and Components

The excellent image quality is backed by the new DIGIC 4 Image Processor - the successor of the DIGIC III Image Processor found in the lower-end cameras. This is a combination of technologies that improve Face Detection, adds Servo AF, better corrects contrast, and captures enhanced photos. There is some noticeable fringing when photos are taken, but the new image processor makes the Canon PowerShot SD880 IS a powerful point and shoot camera even on automatic modes.

Advanced users will like the different shooting modes to capture all sorts of subjects and the 4x optical zoom can allow great high-resolution shots that don't look very pixilated. Like other Canon Cameras, the Canon PowerShot SD880 IS has the same Print/Share button that allows easy printing or sharing of photos.

Bottom Line

The Canon PowerShot SD880 may not have the best button placement for some, but it is a top performer in the point and shoot category.

Samsung i8

The Samsung i8 is a cheaper alternative that easily captivates in look. But it sacrifices a bit of the camera quality in exchange for adding fun features that a selected bunch will enjoy.

Features and Components

On the camera side, the Samsung i8 can take photos up to 8 megapixels. It has a decent image processor that can bump up the image clarity a bit and has some functions that can automatically correct the exposure or contrast balance. It also has 5 levels of sharpness, contrast, saturation for photo enthusiasts to get the perfect picture. The zoom function isn't very impressive, but the other features like Digital Image Stabilization and Face Detection should allow for some pretty impressive shots.

The Samsung i8 is able to play MP3s and supports SRS Wow HD and surround sound modes. Headphones can be plugged into the camera and the neat multitasking feature allows you to take pictures or view slideshows while jamming to the music. The only drawback to this is that it drains the battery much quicker.

Fortunately, the Samsung i8 doubles as a portable multimedia player as well and can play full-length movies as long as it fits in the card. It is also capable of reading certain text formats and comes with a World Tour Guide Information feature that provides useful information on destinations.

Bottom Line

Nothing really excels in the Samsung i8, but the combination of different features and exceptional camera functions make this multi-purpose device worth the $180.

Kaila

Monty Alexander asked:

 

With the modern man becoming more and more tech savvy with the passage of each day, it is absolutely known that each one intends to have a high end gadget. These days get-togethers are incomplete without shootings. Each and every move is clicked and saved for eternity. Amateur photographers are hunting stores to get the right camcorders that will satiate their passion of clicking snaps.

One of the companies that is at the forefront to satisfy this need of these interested but amateur photographers is Canon. Its Powershot series is very famous day

Canon Powershot S3 IS camera is one such production of the lot. It has features that will really steal your heart away.

Design

Sleekly designed, it weighs only 410 grams. It is compact camera.

Key features

Canon Powershot S3 IS digital camera has a 6.0 megapixel resolution. It comes with a low temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD that measures 2.0 inches. It has a real-image optical zoom viewfinder. It has a 4x digital zoom and a 12x optical zoom lens. It comes with different shooting modes. It has other features like audio video interface, direct print. Some of the enticing features of Canon Powershot S3 IS are built in flash, auto flash, red eye reduction, self timer and image stabilizer.

User friendly aspects

Canon Powershot S3 IS camera has a six megapixel CCD and a 12x zoom that ensures a good picture quality. The images display good color precision and saturation. They also have accurate edges. This is because Canon Powershot S3 IS camera has different color modes. These include Sepia, Vivid, Neutral, Vivid Red, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, black and white and the custom effect. The start up time for Canon Powershot S3 IS camera is 1.5 seconds which is a welcome feature since in case of most other digital cameras; the situation is the other way round. This helps you click anything and everything in the nick of time. The Autofocus feature fastens the pace of your shooting. The image quality discerned is very good. However, it is doubted whether the same quality is maintained in print or on screen. But, Canon Powershot S3 IS camera actually gives you some special features which are immensely tempting. For those who love to click images to their full value, Canon Powershot S3 IS camera comes with the Macro mode. Other than this, it comes with other modes like Night Snapshot, Indoor, Foliage, Snow, Beach and Fireworks. Canon Powershot S3 IS camera can shoot approximately 2.3 shots per second. In the movie mode, it can shoot 30 frames per second. Canon Powershot S3 IS camera comes with user friendly software for self editing.

Know More

Canon Powershot S3 IS camera supports software like Microsoft Windows and Mac Operating System. As a result, transferring, sharing and editing photos and footage becomes an easy task.

Conclusion

Canon Powershot S3 IS Digital Camera can be suggested for advanced amateur photographers since it needs experience to use such a complicated device that comprises so many technically advanced features. This Canon digital camera needs to be accompanied by 4 AA Alkaline batteries or 4 AA rechargeable NiMH batteries. However, just like every coin has flip sides, Canon Powershot S3 IS Digital camera has some limitations. But they can definitely be overlooked. It is basically a good gadget with very less cons.

Dania

Monty Alexander asked:

 

With technological development, more and more technically advanced digital cameras are flocking into the market. It becomes difficult for you to decide which is to be purchased. However, this query is solved as soon as Canon Powershot A570 IS camera comes into the picture. It has features that are extremely enticing. It helps you to freeze memories to infinity. And when you glance through these long lost memories that have been preserved due to the good technology of your digital camera, you will definitely feel great.

Design

With weight of just 175 grams, Canon Powershot A570 IS camera comes in silver color. It is an ultra compact camera.

Key Features

Canon Powershot A570 IS camera comes with a 7.1 mega pixel CCD sensor. It has a 2.5 inch LCD display. To add to this, it has a Real Image optical viewfinder. Canon Powershot A570 IS has a 4x digital zoom and a 4x optical zoom. It has some really attractive features. For example, it comes with different modes for better picture quality. Besides these, there are other features like built in flash, auto flash, red eye reduction, self timer and image stabilizer.

User friendly aspects

Canon Powershot A570 IS camera has a 7.1 mega pixel CCD and a 2.5 inch LCD that makes it a cut above the rest amongst its competitors. It has a 4x zoom lens for detailed images. All these features come together to give high definition images and footage with the Canon Powershot A570 IS digital camera. The lens of Canon Powershot A570 IS camera covers an area of 35mm to 140 mm. The manual options available help you get crisp and clear images. Canon Powershot A570 IS digital camera is integrated with a Digic III processor chip that is a face detection device. The system recognizes known faces and then uses your subject's faces to focus and meter the scene. One of the unconventional features that Canon Powershot A570 IS camera beholds is the red eye removal technique. This is an in built function. You could remove the red spots on the images of the pupils of your subject while operating the camera. As a result, the most avoidable part of the snaps is taken care of. This enhances the image quality. Canon Powershot A570 IS digital camera has several modes that enhance the picture quality. There are two standard modes that let you record footage at either 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 pixel resolutions. You could click approximately 1.7 shots per second with Canon Powershot A570 IS digital camera. You have other options like the fast frame rate movie mode lets you cover footage at 320x240 pixels and 60 frames per second. With the help of these modes, sharing footage with friends and dear ones will become an easy task. All the functions are divided into two buttons, namely, the function/set button and the menu button. As a result, operating the Canon Powershot A570 IS digital camera becomes an easy task.

Performance

The image quality delivered by Canon Powershot A570 IS digital camera is quite notable. Images express definite colors. Images are detailed even in shadows. So, you could say that the images are quite sharp.

Know More

The finest features of Canon Powershot A570 IS digital camera are the image stabilizer and the red eye removal technique.

Conclusion

It needs to be accompanied by 2 AA Alkaline batteries or 2 AA rechargeable NiMH batteries Canon Powershot A570 IS has more of pros than cons. Hence it is deservedly suggestive. It is a good one for starters. For advanced amateurs, the advanced sister productions are an option.

Valerie

Alden Jerry asked:

Memories fade away after some time, but we always try to immortalize them. The technologically advanced gadgets such as cameras help to satisfy this sublime desire of human beings. Various top quality brands of cameras are available in the markets these days, and at times it becomes difficult to select a good quality camera. The Canon PowerShot A460 is the latest advanced digital camera that would surely give the photographers the pleasure of shooting their life’s cherished moments for posterity.

This gadget comes with a resolution of 5 mega pixels. The 4X optical zoom lens of this camera is further enhanced with an optical zoom finder. The auto focus option incorporated in this device can snap far off images with distinct clarity. The appreciating features that enrich this gadget are seven white balance modes, nine scene modes and three metering modes. You can just set out without any tension and boost up your passion for capturing brilliant images.

The built in flash feature in Canon Powershot A460 can be adjusted manually or automatically. This gadget can also be set for the Red Eye Reduction mode to shoot beautiful photographs. The flash range can be extended upto 3m which falls down to 2m when the zoom lens is used. The various scene modes like Portrait, Fireworks, Indoor and Snapshot etc would help you to beautify the captured images. The other important features that are in built in this gizmo are colour options, self timer and continuous shooting mode. The recording of the continuous clips can be done at the rate of 1.5 frames per second.

The available colour settings are Neutral, Sepia, Custom, black and white. These colours settings can help a photographer to enhance his photographic capabilities. These arrays of colour settings and scene modes would even help a layman to capture beautiful photographs in difficult situations.

This amazing gadget has in built AA batteries that will come handy when you shoot for long hours. It is endowed with a 2.0 large screen display that would provide you pleasurable experience while reviewing your wonderful creations. The users can easily take out the print outs of their captured images and flaunt off their creativity. To do this, they can connect their digital camera to any PictBridge compatible printer and get full colour print outs within few seconds. You can also make creative VGA quality video clips. View them on your LCD screen or a TV set to enjoy full screen playback with your friends and beloved ones.

Maria

Pooja Lapasia asked:

Advanced amateur photographers are constantly in search of high end digital cameras. For all those who are constantly in search of such gadgets, their search will end with the purchase of Canon Powershot A630. Canon Powershot A630 digital camera has an ergonomic design that makes shooting unforgettable events a cake walk. Everything, from your child’s birthday party to your Mom and Dads wedding anniversary, can be clicked with professional output. Canon Powershot A630 digital camera has many features that make operating Canon Powershot A630 an easy job. The best quality of Canon Powershot A630 is the class of images discerned.

Key Features

Canon Powershot A630 digital camera is enhanced with an 8 mega pixels resolution. It has a 2.5” LCD display that gives you a preview of the images that you wish to click. As a consequence, you get an idea of how the images will turn out and can even make some changes in the position of the camera if that is the requirement. Canon Powershot A630 has 4x digital zoom and a 4x optical zoom. As a result, you can click many images within the lens limit of your camera. Canon Powershot A630 digital camera is enhanced with many shooting modes. Apart from this, it comes with a distinct macro mode.

Retrieving and transferring data with Canon Powershot A630 digital camera is also a simple job, since it is equipped with the PictBridge technology. With this feature, you can print images with complete ease from your camera to a printer device without the interference of a computer. Canon Powershot A630 digital camera is also compatible with Canon printers. Apart from these; it has other features like red eye detection which helps you pluck out the red spots on your subject’s portrait’s eye. Canon Powershot A630 is comparatively easy to use. It has sleek yet sturdy body. Hence, it won’t slip off your hands.

User Friendly Aspects

Canon Powershot A630 has many scene modes like portrait and night mode for better quality images. canon Powershot A630 digital camera has a host of features for exposure control. Apart from this, it has other preset features like white balance settings and auto flash

Conclusion

Canon Powershot A630 is an excellent camera that is extremely attractive and reliable. Its only flaw is that it does not have in camera editing features. But, you can add some effects to your pictures.

Litzy

Pooja Lapasia asked:

These days, a lot of parties take place. Each of these is never complete without some or the other family member clicking snaps. And when it comes to snaps, the talk cannot be completed without speaking about digital cameras. This is because that is the in thing these days. And when one talks of digital cameras, one cannot avoid something like Canon Power Shot series. The next kid of the lot is Canon Powershot TX1. It has an elegant design. It also delivers a very good performance. As a result, it may be called a combination of beauty and efficiency.

Key Features

Canon Powershot TX1 is enhanced with a 7.1 megapixels CCD sensor. It has a 1.8” LCD display that gives you a preview of the images that you wish to click. As a consequence, you get an idea of how the image will turn out and can even make some changes in the position of the camera if that is needed. Canon Powershot TX1 has 4x digital zoom and a 10x optical zoom. As a result, you can click many images within the lens limit of your camera. It is enhanced with many shooting modes. Apart from this, it comes with a distinct macro mode. Retrieving and transferring data with regards Canon Powershot TX1 is also an easy job, since it is equipped with the PictBridge technology. Apart from these, it has other features like red eye detection which helps you pluck out the red spots on your subject s portraits eye. Canon Powershot TX1 is comparatively easy to use.

User Friendly Aspects

Canon Powershot TX1 has many scene modes like portrait and night mode for better quality images. Apart from this, there is also a full auto mode, as well as a mode marked manual, which lets you choose certain options, such as exposure compensation, white balance, and metering mode. It is also enabled with a self timer so that it clicks your images without human support.

Conclusion

Canon Powershot TX1 is an excellent camera that is extremely desirable and reliable. It won’t ditch you in the nick of time. Apart from this, transferring data is also easy through Canon Powershot Tx1 Digital Camera. So, it is for those who love shooting footage and also for those who love viewing good images. It’s just that the weight of this camera is 220 grams which is quite heavy for a camera in this range of cameras.

 

Jewel

Ricky Lim asked:

Canon Powershot A590IS 8 mega pixel can be the perfect camera for you if you are not a very tech-savvy but has a great fond of photography. The celebrated Canon technology juxtaposes this camera along with its exceptional user-friendliness.

The camera can collect as many features as it can and be able to make them available in a single day. However, the price is extremely affordable and at the same the camera is easy-to-use. Let us then scrutinize this camera for assurance.

Canon Powershot A590IS 8 mega pixel digital camera is truly unique with its sleek charcoal-grey body and a 4x optical zoom. With its 2.5” LCD display, you can clearly review the images.

What’s more, the camera comes with the famous Optical Image Stabilizer of Canon that uses the motion detecting technology to take blur-free, crystal clear photos.

One of the remarkable features of Canon Powershot A590IS is its effortless to shift among various shooting modes. Selecting a shooting mode that is appropriate for a particular environment are quickly dialed very handy. To take the clearest and brightest pictures, position all controls automatically and set it to ‘Easy Mode’.

DIGICIII Image Processor gives you the advantage of red-eye correction and face detection technology. Faces of people you are shooting will look natural when the Canon Powershot A590IS automatically finds and concentrates on human faces to choose the ideal focal point and control the exposure setting.

Missing features from many other Canon cameras is the optical viewfinder while this camera has it.

Since Canon Powershot A590IS is powered by a couple of AA battery, it is then very handy to use. When its battery ran out, you can purchase them everywhere you want to.

More features offered by this camera are some manual adjustments such as manual shooting mode, manual focus and flash modes along with the automatic options for precise setting. Expert photographers will surely appreciate the features of this camera if they will use it in taking professional photographs.

For some consumers, performance in low light is reportedly not quality while others claim that it is not necessarily true. This may be brought by the weather condition or due to not precise light adjustment.

One thing more, the flash recycle time is considerably slow because of the AA batteries. Nonetheless, Canon Powershot A590IS 8 mega pixel digital camera is within your means of around $100.

If you are in a budget but don’t want to compromise the quality and some advanced features of a camera, then the Canon Powershot A590IS 8 mega pixel digital camera is rightly for you.

Alejandro

Monty Alexander asked:

 

Canon's A550 is an excellent camera with solid machine. Canon's A550 with 7.1-megapixel performs very well. It delivers solid images and excellent performance; this is the key of success for Canon A550. The Canon A550s zoom is longer comparatively standard zoom and the pictures can be shot once every 1.7 seconds. A550 comes with little small LCD, but still its strong enough to pleased users. The Canon A550s overall quality is superb. According to its features and functions it deserves to be best. It's not that small to slip into your jeans, but it can fit easily into most jacket pockets and bags. The A550's overall quality and performance make it a good choice. The colors of the photographs clicked (outdoor) in the day time give very natural feel. The buttons on the camera is comfortable to use, and it gives a generous grip in hands. Regarding looks the Canon A550 sometimes looks like a mini SLR camera. It's a true manual settings control, which let you adjust the setting of image.

Some of the user's complaint about camera is too slow; it’s due to call shutter lag. It's basically between the time when the shutter button is pressed and when the camera actually snaps a picture. Also the involvement of flash, increase shutter lag happens more. It comes in L shape design, which is quite common in Canon's Powers hot, and same with its batteries. While clicking the pictures sharpness levels in Canon A550 remains the same, with well balanced colors. The A550 also has image adjustment settings, which also include a 30fps VGA (640x480) movie mode. It is a solid choice which captures pictures with plenty of details. The Canon A550 is not that easy to use, it's not difficult but if you want easy camera to use there are other options too. The A550 is a solid budget camera with good performance and pleasant photos. The PowerShot A550 is not the thinnest camera, but it feels comfortable in the hand.

Using digital zoom during videos gives pathetic results. So it's recommended not to use digital zoom while making videos. The Canon A550 is not that easy to use, it's not difficult but if you want easy camera to use there are other options too. With silver colour body, its dimensions are91.2 x 64.0 x 43.1mm and its weight is 160g. Some photos taken in indoor areas with automatic white balance gives yellow result, which is quite common in snapshot cameras. In bright light its glass viewfinder is very useful. At ISO 800 sensitivity, Images are predictably noisy. Mostly ISO 800 is for low-light and high-speed shooting. There is problem with larger LCD screen, its gets washed out when sun is on its peak. Video shooting gives decent result and its shoots at 30 frames per second.

 

The canon digital camera is the fulfillment of Canon's innovative thinking and vision that mixes the best of photography and video features like never before.

Elsa

Richard Walker asked:

Copyright (c) 2009 Richard Walker

A camera can do so much for you yet it gets taken for granted so often. Something that captures your memories should be cherished, unless it's of bad quality. Your memories aren't pixilated, fuzzy, and blurry are they? Well, we're not talking about the bar in this hypothetical statement, but usually they aren't. So why on earth would you settle for a less than adequate camera? the Canon Powershot SD990 IS is more than adequate and it also beats it's predecessors like the Canon Powershot A590IS.

I'll tell you why; price. Everything is so expensive now, sales taxes are being issued on the internet more often, tons of people are getting laid off, it's all going to hell. Why buy a camera then, especially when a nice one like the Canon Powershot A590IS is so cheap? Well, simply put, we need to preserve the good memories to help us out of the bad ones. You can't do that with a $100 dollar, poorly constructed, mini camera. You need an excellent camera and it isn't even that heavily priced.

For $320 the Canon Powershot SD990IS will deliver amazing digital photographs with fifteen megapixels. FIF-TEEN. That is almost twice as much as the Canon Powershot A590IS, which has 8. Not to mention the face detection, an amazing recent new feature in most cameras. The face detector will even find the faces for you when you put it on self timer, amazing, huh? This camera is a steal in it's truest and most legal form. Ok, I can hear the skepticism from across the room; "I don't know what that means! I'm old!". Ok, ok, I'll slow it down for you.

The Canon Powershot SD990IS's highest resolution is at 4416 x 2480, that is the highest resolution this camera can go. Yes, that is very big, larger a normal LCD wide screen computer monitor. More proof? Alright, 4x stabilized digital zoom, meaning, you can take a picture of that pimple on your prepubescent son's nose and it'll be in 15 megapixel definition still. Still not convinced? Easy printing and Red Eye correction. The camera will fix red eye for you, and can print the picture at the click of a button.

The Canon Powershot SD990IS is a revolutionary, affordable and entertaining camera. It pushes the envelope with it's 15 megapixel and face detection. Be a professional photographer with 3 times less the price and make memories today. The Canon Powershot A590IS is good too if you're really on a budget but I wouldn't recommend it. Regardless, if you're going to buy a camera, go Canon.!

Clay

Corwin Brown asked:

The 8-megapixel Canon PowerShot SD850 IS combines several classic features of the Digital Elph line with new perks garnered mainly from a new image processor. The Digic III image processor brings with it face detection technology that can recognize up to nine faces at once, as well as technology that reportedly keeps pictures cleaner. The SD850 IS had an initial price of $399, but can now be found online for about $50 less.

Canon PowerShot 850 compact camera - Image stabilizer

Compact cameras are more susceptible to camera shake from handheld shots, especially in low light situations. 70 years of Canon’s optical innovation have enabled the development of lens elements that are perfectly suited to the challenges of compact photography. The PowerShot SD850 IS employs Canon’s lens-shift optical Image Stabilizer technology to compensate for camera shake caused by unwanted hand movement. Enabling shooting at shutter speeds up to 3 stops slower than would normally be possible, the optical Image Stabilizer is particularly useful at full zoom or when using the 2cm Macro mode. The 4x optical zoom lens incorporates an Ultra-High Refractive Index A spherical lens to achieve a focal length range of 35-140mm without affecting the camera’s slim profile.

Canon SD850 IS camera - Face detection

“The PowerShot SD850 IS builds on the success of its award-winning predecessor with new technologies that will appeal to amateurs and advanced photographers alike.” Canon’s advanced DIGIC III image processor powers a range of functions related to Face Detection Technology. Face Detection AF/AE/FE automatically detects up to nine faces within a scene and optimizes focus, exposure and flash exposure accordingly. Red-Eye Correction in playback uses Face Detection Technology to search through captured images and remove any red-eye it detects. Users can also perform red-eye correction manually if needed.

Canon SD 850 IS - Pure Color LCD screen

The high resolution Pure Color LCD screens gives users a number of visual benefits. Colour tones have been enhanced by 30% for vibrant, true-to-life reproduction. The wide viewing angle of the screen is complemented by an anti-reflective coating, which makes it easy to compose and review images even in brightly-lit conditions. A scratch-resistant layer provides extra protection against knocks and scrapes. Settings for shutter speed and aperture are now displayed on the LCD during shooting. When using Auto ISO and High ISO Auto, the LCD will also display the ISO speed. These camera settings are now recorded as EXIF data for review in playback.

PowerShot SD850 camera - Movie mode

The Time Lapse Movie mode enables users to capture changing scenes - such as drifting clouds or a bustling city street - for accelerated playback as smooth VGA-quality movie clips. Captured at one-second or two-second intervals, a scene of two hours’ duration can be condensed to a fluid eight minute or four minute movie file. Users can also record standard VGA movies with sound at 30fps and QVGA movies with sound at 60fps. The PowerShot SD850 IS features a dedicated Print menu for quick access to direct print options. Full PictBridge support means users can print directly to any PictBridge compatible printer without the need for a PC. A Print/Share button allows one-touch printing and easy uploads to Windows or Mac systems.

Features:-

• 8.0 Megapixels

• 4x optical zoom 35-140mm (35mm equivalent) UA lens with optical Image Stabilizer

• Eye-catching design with Touch Control Dial

• DIGIC III with Face Detection AF/AE/FE and

• Noise Reduction Technology

• Red-Eye Correction in playback

• 2.5” high resolution Pure Color LCD

• ISO 1600 and Auto ISO Shift

• 18 shooting modes including Creative Light Effect plus My Colors photo effects

• 30fps VGA Movies and Time Lapse Movie function

• Shortcut button for instant access to favourite functions

Kenna