Customer Rating: 
Summary: super camera
Comment: This camera is far better than I imagined. Great picture with such a small product.The elf is so far improved over the last cannon I had.Great value. I highly recommend this camera for the novice person that dosen't know about all those settings on other cameras.Point it and click.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mostly a great camera
Comment: I have been using this camera for about 4 months. This is the 4th (digital) Canon I have purchased, preceded by a rebel and two elph models for family members. The two features that led me to select this are the 5x zoom and the viewfinder. I don't find the viewfinder to be particularly accurate for framing the picture. On the other hand, I don't find the screen to be a particularly accurate rendering of colors or focus. You usually don't have time to fiddle back and forth, after fiddling with the other scene, flash, etc. Go with one and just keep taking pics until you find the balance and focus you like. It's not like you are wasting film.
There are two things that really annoy me about this camera and prevented me from giving it 5 stars. One is the long delay between pushing the button and actually taking the picture. For example, a child or animal will probably move before the camera actually takes the shot, unless they are asleep or focused on something else. Part of it is red eye reduction, but even when you turn off flash, it is still way too long. Kind of like make an appointment to snap the shutter. The other frustration is the outer ring on the navigation control (not the top wheel, the one that changes scene or selects flash). I find I have to spin that thing around a lot before it actually changes the selection and then it may change by 1, 2 or even three options. So you are spinning the stupid wheel back and forth back and forth just to -- say -- turn off the flash so the cat won't turn it's head while you are waiting for the camera to actually take the picture. Cat gets up and leaves. So you need to make those changes in advance before you even start framing. And that means you need to learn the camera quirks so you know it's limits in advance.
The general setting minus flash is good for most pics. The night and indoor options are pretty good as well, minus flash. The flash is what you would expect, pretty short distance, so it is nice that the camera can still take many pictures without it, given adequate ambient light.
There is substantial barrel distortion at 5x, but I expect that with a camera this small. With the good resolution, cropping is an option.
It does have a rather odd algorithm for selecting what it wants to focus on when people are not the subject or there are a lot of other subjects around. It seems to want to find something in the foreground - anything, instead of using the obvious high contrast horizon. An old fashioned "infinity" setting would be nice then you could use the older canon feature of using one area to represent light, contrast balance and then changing the view to something else. When it doesn't find a match in those little boxes, it isn't happy.
My camera makes some really weird almost grinding sounds and the lens spends a lot of time trying to find focus when I am in the 4 to 5x range. Makes the same sound when I turn it off, too. Not sure if that is normal. Again, the time to set up the shot and actually take the shot is too long for a point and shoot camera. More like shoot and point, if you get my drift. In that respect, I like the SD600 more.
Nice camera, generally a decent balance of features, function and the physical constraints of the design. I guess I just expected more from Canon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Who thought a Canon...
Comment: I LOVE this camera... This is the fifth camera I have owned in the last five years (I tend to break them) My first camera was a Nikon coolpix which I liked cause it was easy but the picture quality wasn't amazing... My second camera was a pentax optio which I did really like... when that broke I replaced it with the new pentax optio and i HATED it!!! Then I got the cute purple Nikon coolpix and even though I didn't break that one I did return it because it took the blurriest/worst pictures... My dad convinced me to look at Canons even though I never really wanted one... He loves his canon so I thought what do I have to lose... I researched it on the internet and this camera had some awesome reviews... I went ahead and purchased it and I am so glad my dad had me look into canons... They have amazing features and take awesome pictures!!! i have so far loved everything about this camera (except the design, but you get over that when you see the high quality photos it produces) So my suggestion to everyone is look around... But I love my canon and am so glad I got it since I had horrible experiences with the pentax optio and the nikon coolpix!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too bad it broke after three months....
Comment: I love this camera! However, after owning it for three months, it no longer works. Amazon.com was not at all helpful in this process. I had to send it back to Canon for repair, which will take 3 weeks or more.
I am disapointed with the quality of the product, but when it was working, it did work fine.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great little camera
Comment: My other Canon was stolen on the last trip so I went looking for the replacement. Cannot say enough positive things about this little guy. Zoom, close up, fast reaction time (for what it is), nice size screen but the view finder? does anyone ever use those anymore on this type of camera? The battery charger - when will they learn to make them so the unit doesn't cover three holes on the power strip?
Summary: super camera
Comment: This camera is far better than I imagined. Great picture with such a small product.The elf is so far improved over the last cannon I had.Great value. I highly recommend this camera for the novice person that dosen't know about all those settings on other cameras.Point it and click.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mostly a great camera
Comment: I have been using this camera for about 4 months. This is the 4th (digital) Canon I have purchased, preceded by a rebel and two elph models for family members. The two features that led me to select this are the 5x zoom and the viewfinder. I don't find the viewfinder to be particularly accurate for framing the picture. On the other hand, I don't find the screen to be a particularly accurate rendering of colors or focus. You usually don't have time to fiddle back and forth, after fiddling with the other scene, flash, etc. Go with one and just keep taking pics until you find the balance and focus you like. It's not like you are wasting film.
There are two things that really annoy me about this camera and prevented me from giving it 5 stars. One is the long delay between pushing the button and actually taking the picture. For example, a child or animal will probably move before the camera actually takes the shot, unless they are asleep or focused on something else. Part of it is red eye reduction, but even when you turn off flash, it is still way too long. Kind of like make an appointment to snap the shutter. The other frustration is the outer ring on the navigation control (not the top wheel, the one that changes scene or selects flash). I find I have to spin that thing around a lot before it actually changes the selection and then it may change by 1, 2 or even three options. So you are spinning the stupid wheel back and forth back and forth just to -- say -- turn off the flash so the cat won't turn it's head while you are waiting for the camera to actually take the picture. Cat gets up and leaves. So you need to make those changes in advance before you even start framing. And that means you need to learn the camera quirks so you know it's limits in advance.
The general setting minus flash is good for most pics. The night and indoor options are pretty good as well, minus flash. The flash is what you would expect, pretty short distance, so it is nice that the camera can still take many pictures without it, given adequate ambient light.
There is substantial barrel distortion at 5x, but I expect that with a camera this small. With the good resolution, cropping is an option.
It does have a rather odd algorithm for selecting what it wants to focus on when people are not the subject or there are a lot of other subjects around. It seems to want to find something in the foreground - anything, instead of using the obvious high contrast horizon. An old fashioned "infinity" setting would be nice then you could use the older canon feature of using one area to represent light, contrast balance and then changing the view to something else. When it doesn't find a match in those little boxes, it isn't happy.
My camera makes some really weird almost grinding sounds and the lens spends a lot of time trying to find focus when I am in the 4 to 5x range. Makes the same sound when I turn it off, too. Not sure if that is normal. Again, the time to set up the shot and actually take the shot is too long for a point and shoot camera. More like shoot and point, if you get my drift. In that respect, I like the SD600 more.
Nice camera, generally a decent balance of features, function and the physical constraints of the design. I guess I just expected more from Canon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Who thought a Canon...
Comment: I LOVE this camera... This is the fifth camera I have owned in the last five years (I tend to break them) My first camera was a Nikon coolpix which I liked cause it was easy but the picture quality wasn't amazing... My second camera was a pentax optio which I did really like... when that broke I replaced it with the new pentax optio and i HATED it!!! Then I got the cute purple Nikon coolpix and even though I didn't break that one I did return it because it took the blurriest/worst pictures... My dad convinced me to look at Canons even though I never really wanted one... He loves his canon so I thought what do I have to lose... I researched it on the internet and this camera had some awesome reviews... I went ahead and purchased it and I am so glad my dad had me look into canons... They have amazing features and take awesome pictures!!! i have so far loved everything about this camera (except the design, but you get over that when you see the high quality photos it produces) So my suggestion to everyone is look around... But I love my canon and am so glad I got it since I had horrible experiences with the pentax optio and the nikon coolpix!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too bad it broke after three months....
Comment: I love this camera! However, after owning it for three months, it no longer works. Amazon.com was not at all helpful in this process. I had to send it back to Canon for repair, which will take 3 weeks or more.
I am disapointed with the quality of the product, but when it was working, it did work fine.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great little camera
Comment: My other Canon was stolen on the last trip so I went looking for the replacement. Cannot say enough positive things about this little guy. Zoom, close up, fast reaction time (for what it is), nice size screen but the view finder? does anyone ever use those anymore on this type of camera? The battery charger - when will they learn to make them so the unit doesn't cover three holes on the power strip?
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