 "Only good for video" | 2009-10-25 |
| - Reviewed By the_scum1 |
I have had this camera more than 2 years and I continue to be disappointed. It is good outdoors and for Video but indoors it is just bad. Don't use the flash and your pictures have a 50 50 chance of turning out. Use the flash and it is ungodly slow. I have had 100 dollar cameras that warm up quicker. I will keep this camera for videos and buy another for photos. I miss out on way to many photos waiting on this camera flash to be ready or just to warm up for the next photo. I tried several different sd cards thinking it was slow because of them but it has made no difference. I read here that people like how small it is. It is not that small.
Pros for me
Good outdoor photos
Good video clips
AA batteries(use enerloops)
Cons
SLOOOOOOW
bad indoor photos
kind of bulky
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 "not for people who are not fimiliar with all the different options..." | 2009-09-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1POW5XZP8W8RR |
I got this camera as a gift for Christmas a few years ago after doing a lot of research. I am into taking somewhat artsy photos, but am not fimilar with all the different settings and options it requires to take a great picture, so I thought this would be a great camera for me as it seemed pretty simply to figure out. I guess I was looking for something with similar features to a digital slr without the size (and price). I think this camera probably is compareable to that, but I feel like unless you really know what you are doing, or take time to memorize the manual, it is really hard to get what you are looking for when taking a photo. There have been several instances where I've had the manual out, testing out a setting, only to forget it the next time I use my camera. It was a little disappointing to say the least, as I would have liked to used this as a "regular" shot camera as well as some art type shots, but mostly have just used it for the latter.
Another con to this camera is the flash takes rediculously long to recycle. I have used the camera a lot to take photos of friends and whatnot, and a lot of times you sit there for what seems like forever for the picture to actually be taken because the flash takes soooo long. Several times I have missed a great shot because of this, and it's really annoying when trying to take a photo of someone as they are standing there for so long waiting for the picture to be taken. It really makes it hard to capture the "moment" in a photograph.
Besides my two complaints, overall this camera takes great photographs and video. I think I would recommend this camera for someone who is more fimilar with the different settings (shutter speed, iso, all that technical stuff) or someone who will be able to take the time to learn them. Thank god for the "auto" feature. I do get some really great pictures from this camera, though. |
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 "Not quite...." | 2009-07-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: AKLTV9RSYTCAF |
| I just read a review that said this camera has a long "recycle" time on the flash. It said that you have to wait ten seconds after putting the flash up to use it. I can put the flash up and immediately take a picture with it. I don't know if I am doing anything different, but it works for me. Also, I have never had problem with low light shooting. I have been able to get quite a few nice pictures in low light with this camera. |
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 "Does lemon law apply here?" | 2009-07-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: AU9ZRQLTFTFYC |
| I bought this camera in May of 2008 because I had an old (26 yrs) 35mm Canon that I loved and it always took great photos. After about 6 months, the camera started to fail to focus at random. The lens jammed in September '08 and would not retract. It gave me a reset message. I took it to the photo supply dealer that sold it to me and the owner replaced the batteries which made no difference. He finally bumped the camera on his hand and the lens retracted. By November of '08, the camera would not focus at all and he sent it off for it's first repair which took about 3 weeks. The repair only had a 90 day warranty by Canon. In February, the camera begain to stop focusing again but I thought it was lighting/white balance at the car show where it was being used. By the end of march (more than 90 days later) it stopped focusing again. Canon made a "good will repair" with no warranty. Now, four months later (July) it has started to randomly fail to focus again and the lens rattles when focusing or zooming. I paid $399.00 for the camera. If I had paid the $125.00 they originally quoted me for the second repair I would have $524.00 invested in a camera that now would (or soon will be) useless and only lasted 1 year and 2 months of very light use. I will not buy another Canon product for a very, very, very long time if ever. |
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| "Lemon from day one, I will not buy a Canon again." | 2009-07-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: AU9ZRQLTFTFYC |
I bought this camera in May of 2008 because I had an old (26 yrs) 35mm Canon that I loved and it always took great photos. After about 6 months, the camera started to fail to focus at random. The lens jammed in September '08 and would not retract. It gave me a reset message. I took it to the photo supply dealer that sold it to me and the owner replaced the batteries which made no difference. He finally bumped the camera on his hand and the lens retracted. By November of '08, the camera would not focus at all and he sent it off for it's first repair which took about 3 weeks. The repair only had a 90 day warranty by Canon. In February, the camera begain to stop focusing again but I thought it was lighting/white balance at the car show where it was being used. By the end of march (more than 90 days later) it stopped focusing again. Canon made a "good will repair" with no warranty. Now, four months later (July) it has started to randomly fail to focus again and the lens rattles when focusing or zooming. I paid $399.00 for the camera. If I had paid the $125.00 they originally quoted me for the second repair I would have $524.00 invested in a camera that now would (or soon will be) useless and only lasted 1 year and 2 months of very light use. I will not buy another Canon product for a very, very, very long time if ever.
UPDATE October 15, 2009- The lens jammed again and will not retract just after it stopped focusing again. Canon has said that they will only repair it if I pay for the repair. This is the fourth time in under 2 years that the camera has malfunctioned. This is my last Canon camera... no question about it. It might make a decent paper weight. |
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| "Good camera, great video, would buy it again" | 2009-06-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2B9LAGWJG14N8 |
Have had it about a year. First the minor quibbles:
1) flash-recycle time is a little slow
2) you cannot change zoom when shooting video
3) menu navigation is not idiot-proof
4) low-light level results are fair.
The auto-focus, especially the face-finder feature, works flawlessly, and the 10x zoom capability is great. The LCD is big and bright, and I have not missed having a viewfinder yet.
I use Sanyo Eneloop rechargeable AA NiMH batteries (2000 maH) in it and can typically shoot at least a couple of hundred pictures without flash or shoot a half-hour or so before having to swap to the backup set of batteries.
The image stabilization works very well, although photo quality in very low light is not great.
For normal picture taking the results are very good. The photos have good contrast and colors, and the auto-focus and face detection work well and don't get in the way of taking pictures.
An interesting thing about face detection is that it detects eyes, human or not! So when doing a macro photo of some colorful leaf-hopper with the camera, the face detection is able to pick out the tiny insect eyes and focus on the insect face correctly.
Photos using the flash tend to come out very well, and it takes a second to learn that you need to manually pop up the flash to make it work.
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