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Canon Sd1200Is - The Best Camera Is The One You Have With You

This is, overall, a remarkable camera for the size and price. Wide aperture photography in reasonable lighting is where this excels, such as shooting portraits indoors or in shade. Unfortunately, the size of the camera means some very strict limitations in the conditions under which you can get good photos. The aperture at high f/# (i.e. when the aperture is stopped down to let less light in) is so small that you get noticeable diffractive blurring. Take a picture in landscape scene mode outside on a sunny day (which stops down the lens to increase depth of field), for example, and you'll notice a certain fuzziness to the picture due to the small aperture.

Another problem area in the camera is in the auto mode. For reasons I still haven't figured out, while the camera seems to do a great job picking out the correct mode (i.e. portrait versus outdoor), the results in auto are almost never as good as if you just leave it in P (program) mode. For some reason auto mode usually results in overexposure and too high an ISO setting. This is especially true when using the flash. I'm guessing that the camera errs on the side of having too much light to work with, rather than underexposing, but the results are frustratingly poor compared to what you get with P most of the time.

Despite the photo quality limitations, many of which are unavoidable on a camera of this size, this is a very nice camera. As they say, the best camera is the one you have with you, and the compact stature of this camera means that more often than not, this will be the best camera. You'll almost always get good shots, and sometimes you'll get great ones, just using the auto mode. If you know what you're doing, you can get surprisingly good results from this camera. In summary, while one should be aware that sacrifices have to made in the optics with a camera this small, this is about as good a camera as you can get at this size. I recommend it.

Canon SD1200IS - Great Little Camera For a Good Price

I bought this camera to replace an older Canon Digital PowerShot. It has been wonderful. The features are all very easy to use and it has a large view screen. Each picture has been very crisp with perfect color. The Zoom is great - I took some great pictures of all the snow from an upstairs window inside my home and they look like I was outside in the snow. I got a 4G Kingston SD card and the battery life has been great. It was nice that it comes in colors too - I chose the green. Definitely a good buy.

Canon SD1200IS - Love My Canon

I am really enjoying my Canon. It is handy and takes very good pictures. I have not yet had to enlarge or develop any - but they look good on-line. I wish I could charge the battery while it is in the camera but taking the battery out to charge it is not the worst thing in the world, I guess.

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