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great camera
I bought this camera for my girlfriend, but I love it so much that I always ask to borrow it. I think it takes great pictures and if you use the tips in the manual, it works great in almost every situation. I do wish it was the casing was made with a protective coating or special cover because it gets scratched very easily. I have had no problems with it over the year since purchased. Almost Perfect! This is a wonderful camera! I got it for christmas '05. I took somewhere close to 6,000 pictures with it. The digic II processor in it is a beast! You could just take photo after photo after photo with it. Very little shutter lag, maybe just a smidge. Has a bunch of helpful modes making it very easy to use. My only complaint though is that mine died suddenly, just wouldn't start one day! No amount of charging or monkeying would bring it back to life. I believe it was some sort of lens error, but I really won't ever know. Handed it to customer service, the looked at it, told me it was broke and that I needed to buy a new one. That was upsetting... Great camera if you can afford one a year I got this sd400 to replace my s400 which after a year started giving me a memory card error message. I now find out that was a design flaw. Anyway, i spent hundreds of dollars on this one, and now, just over a year after I got it, it won't hold a battery charge. I loved both cameras while they worked, but I can't afford a $400 camera plus the related accessories every year or so. I've written to Canon tech support. Unless they are willing to repair or replace this one free of charge, I'm moving on to another brand camera! Very Disapointed I bought this camera to mainly use the Digital macro mode, it worked great for several months, now it will not lock focus, this camera is very frustrating, every picture that I take I have to edit to lighten the picture, I tried just about every setting to get the pictures to come out, to no avail, I am a commercial real estate appraiser, so I have taken close to 2000 pictures with this camera, and just about every one I had to lighten, now the Macro mode wont work, I will not buy another cannon product ever again!!! Perfect at what it was designed to do You will read reviews, saying that the LCD broke, and other things just dont work. Personally, I have had no problems whatsoever. Yes I have a nice case that is padded that we keep the camera in when we are not using it, and no I am not a professional so I am not too incredibly pickey when it comes to the camera. The quality is great, eveyone enveys this camera who uses it. O also let me mention that we have had this camera for a year now and with two kids handeling it a times and have had no regrets so far. Pros: * Small * Sleek * Exellent picture quality * Great video playback * Good in-camera photo catalog * Durable (This is my experience..remember 1 year 2 kids, and a good case. * Good battery life & cheap batteries, I bought 2 extra batteries for like $20 on ebay. * Simple user interface Cons: * Red eye could be better on this camera * Get the 7.1mp version if you plan on cropping pictures and blowing them up to be large (using picasa2). | |
