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Excellent camera for the price
After reading several reviews of different digital cameras on the Web, I chose the SD200 for its price/value point, and I am not disappointed. This camera is definitely worth it. Amazing little Camera I just got this camera today and it's great! I needed a smaller one just to take around college. My other camera was too big to just slip in my pocket and I found myself just never taking pictures. But now I can just take the sd200 anywhere. The camera is also loaded with options and takes awesome pictures. So you know how big it is, the camera is about the size of an altoids box. It also is very, very light. All around great camera! Great Battlefield Camera for Iraq or Disney World This is a great little camera. I've carried it for the last 6 months in my sleeve cargo pocket while in Iraq--without a case, and haven't had any problems w/ the screen. It's handy, lightening fast, and takes crystal clear photos. Everyone who's seen it or taken pictures with it wants one. And the ability to recharge on 110/220 V is great for traveling. The battery will usually last at least a week or more while taking a few snap shots a day. I highly recommend it as an alternative to a big--slow--expensive camera. Get a 512 SD card and you'll be set for anything. 3.2 mega does the trick for most users. For under $200 nothing else compares, buy it! Or if you insist on spending more, buy the newer SD400. Fragile LCD I just want to add my voice to the chorus of complaints about this camera. My daughter turned the camera on after owning it for two months and the LCD was broken. Canon refuses to cover this under the warranty. I wouldn't buy another Canon product after this episode. almost perfect? (for me anyway) For me, this is almost the perfect camera. It takes great pictures, and has a pretty good optical zoom. Any better than 3x might be unusable for such a small camera, because the lens would shake too much without a tripod. I think the small size and light weight makes it more vulnerable to camera shake. But that's OK, because I love the small size; it makes it possible/practical to take the camera wherever I go. This camera has a great continuous shooting mode, which I almost always use to take pictures of my daughter (who's 3 and always moving, so it takes a lot of tries to get a perfect shot). The continous mode is fast enough, although not as fast as some more expensive (and larger) cameras I've tried. I wish the continuous mode would stay on my default, so I don't have to turn it on manually every time I turn on the camera. I bought the SD200 instead of the 300 because the I don't need the 300's extra pixels, and the 200 has a faster continuous mode. It also has video mode which has made my video camera nearly obsolete. It takes DV-quality movies of unlimited length (until your SD card is full). I wish it had stereo sound though. And, you can't zoom or change focus while taking a movie. Once in a while I get a video that is out of focus. But this is still not a good enough reason to lug my video camera around. There are some great videos of my daughter which I only got because the camera happened to be in my pocket. I do have problems with redeye when using the flash, but I rarely use the flash. | |
