Customer Rating: 
Summary: A good point and shoot
Comment: I bought this camera as a good point and shoot to take along on trips and I've been happy with it so far. It produces great images in outdoor conditions, such as mountains and forests. The image stabilization feature is good to have, and the included software for downloading images works for me. With a tripod and a bit of time to learn proper ISO and exposure settings, the camera created some nice nighttime pictures as well. The battery life is good, easily able to handle a full day of picture taking, even with the screen at its brightest, and charging is quick and simple.
I found the camera to be very sensitive to single point light sources at night and even during the day (the sun) producing excessive amounts of lens flare. One annoyance is the camera does not remember your flash settings when you turn it off, and always defaults to on. Also, the silver finish has gotten fairly scratched up from my abuse, but I kept the large screen safe with an invisibleSHIELD. The zoom isn't spectacular, at 3.8x, but it's usually not much of a concern. Some people may not like that it does not have an optical viewfinder, but the large screen really makes up for it, and I personally would never use an optical viewfinder anyway --even to save battery.
Overall I'd say the Canon PowerShot SD870IS is an excellent camera for the price, producing excellent quality images for a point and shoot.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Camera For Outdoors, Bad for Indoors/Flash
Comment: Its a good camera overall (I like Canon products). It takes the best pictures outdoors in sunlight or indoors in very bright lights. With Flash the pics are grainy and poor quality. Wish for this price Canon would include bigger SD card and extra battery.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great comact camera
Comment: From my experience the sd870 takes great pics in almost all situations. It performs well with the Sandisk Extreme III 8gb card that I purchased with it. The thumb scroll feature has some "cool" factor to it, but I found it a little "finicky" and choose to turn that feature off and access the menu manually which is equally easy. This camera is fairly compact and light, battery life is better than a lot of its peers. It has all the manual adjustments that I prefer, which aren't alot. I use the white balance adjustment sometimes for sun/snow shots. The only things that I would change are the following:
1. Metal housing is easily scratched
2. I would prefer waterproof/dustproof
All in all, I really like this camera and have no regrets after owning it for a year.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great camera, except for distortion
Comment: I like the Canon 870 because it is easy to use, is compact, has great battery life, and has a 28mm equivilent wide angle lens. The only draw back is the lens quality which is sharp enough, but has noticable "barrel" distortion at the wide angle setting. This causes otherwise straight walls to be slightly curved outwards at the sides of the photo. This is a minor flaw considering the price and value.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wouldn't Buy Again
Comment: We have had nothing but problems with this camera. We have had it for just over a year and it has been in the shop for repair 3 times.
When we were looking to buy a digital camera, we looked at many styles, and we liked this one the best. It had a lot of nice features, and picture quality was very good. The only downside was that there was no viewfinder, so on a bright sunny day it's kind of hard to see the LCD.
We have taken very good care of this camera. After about 10 months, the mechanism that extended and opened the lens broke. We sent it back to Canon for repair and then supposedly fixed it and sent it back. When we got it back, it had the same problem, only with a slight variation. We could now hear gears spinning and griding inside when the lens tried to extend.
We sent it back to Canon again. The 2nd repair request date was 1 month and 6 days after the first. They fixed it again and sent it back to us.
This time, the lens would extend properly, but the door that opens up to uncover the lens wouldn't open.
It's currently back at Canon again for the third time. Given the average time of about 3 weeks for each repair, allowing shipping and repair time, this camera has been out of our possession for about 2 1/2 months. We've only owned it for 14 months.
It is a nice camera, but ours appears to be a piece of junk. We're also not very impressed with Canon's service.
Summary: A good point and shoot
Comment: I bought this camera as a good point and shoot to take along on trips and I've been happy with it so far. It produces great images in outdoor conditions, such as mountains and forests. The image stabilization feature is good to have, and the included software for downloading images works for me. With a tripod and a bit of time to learn proper ISO and exposure settings, the camera created some nice nighttime pictures as well. The battery life is good, easily able to handle a full day of picture taking, even with the screen at its brightest, and charging is quick and simple.
I found the camera to be very sensitive to single point light sources at night and even during the day (the sun) producing excessive amounts of lens flare. One annoyance is the camera does not remember your flash settings when you turn it off, and always defaults to on. Also, the silver finish has gotten fairly scratched up from my abuse, but I kept the large screen safe with an invisibleSHIELD. The zoom isn't spectacular, at 3.8x, but it's usually not much of a concern. Some people may not like that it does not have an optical viewfinder, but the large screen really makes up for it, and I personally would never use an optical viewfinder anyway --even to save battery.
Overall I'd say the Canon PowerShot SD870IS is an excellent camera for the price, producing excellent quality images for a point and shoot.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Camera For Outdoors, Bad for Indoors/Flash
Comment: Its a good camera overall (I like Canon products). It takes the best pictures outdoors in sunlight or indoors in very bright lights. With Flash the pics are grainy and poor quality. Wish for this price Canon would include bigger SD card and extra battery.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great comact camera
Comment: From my experience the sd870 takes great pics in almost all situations. It performs well with the Sandisk Extreme III 8gb card that I purchased with it. The thumb scroll feature has some "cool" factor to it, but I found it a little "finicky" and choose to turn that feature off and access the menu manually which is equally easy. This camera is fairly compact and light, battery life is better than a lot of its peers. It has all the manual adjustments that I prefer, which aren't alot. I use the white balance adjustment sometimes for sun/snow shots. The only things that I would change are the following:
1. Metal housing is easily scratched
2. I would prefer waterproof/dustproof
All in all, I really like this camera and have no regrets after owning it for a year.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great camera, except for distortion
Comment: I like the Canon 870 because it is easy to use, is compact, has great battery life, and has a 28mm equivilent wide angle lens. The only draw back is the lens quality which is sharp enough, but has noticable "barrel" distortion at the wide angle setting. This causes otherwise straight walls to be slightly curved outwards at the sides of the photo. This is a minor flaw considering the price and value.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wouldn't Buy Again
Comment: We have had nothing but problems with this camera. We have had it for just over a year and it has been in the shop for repair 3 times.
When we were looking to buy a digital camera, we looked at many styles, and we liked this one the best. It had a lot of nice features, and picture quality was very good. The only downside was that there was no viewfinder, so on a bright sunny day it's kind of hard to see the LCD.
We have taken very good care of this camera. After about 10 months, the mechanism that extended and opened the lens broke. We sent it back to Canon for repair and then supposedly fixed it and sent it back. When we got it back, it had the same problem, only with a slight variation. We could now hear gears spinning and griding inside when the lens tried to extend.
We sent it back to Canon again. The 2nd repair request date was 1 month and 6 days after the first. They fixed it again and sent it back to us.
This time, the lens would extend properly, but the door that opens up to uncover the lens wouldn't open.
It's currently back at Canon again for the third time. Given the average time of about 3 weeks for each repair, allowing shipping and repair time, this camera has been out of our possession for about 2 1/2 months. We've only owned it for 14 months.
It is a nice camera, but ours appears to be a piece of junk. We're also not very impressed with Canon's service.
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