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I love my canon, however the zoom leave some to be desired. A fantastic point and shoot.
I bought this camera to tote around in my purse when the other camera is too big. This is not always a bad thing if you don't want the flash, but you may miss a few pictures when you forget to pop it up. You have to use their software. In a nut shell, the focus area is too small and if someone is standing slightly behind someone else. First, it doesn't work with my Card Reader. I've NEVER had a problem with any camera I've used with it, but this camera "writes" the picture to the card differently, so it doesn't work. I have a professional Canon Camera (5D) and love it. If you don't know what this means, don't worry.
The shutter speed is usually too slow for indoors. The f/stop is usually 2.8 for many settings whether it is for the "mountain setting" or the "portrait setting". translating to blurry pictures if someone is moving (when flash is not on). The flash doesn't pop-up by itself. Many problems with this camera. they will be out of focus.
The pictures are an odd size ( about a 6x8) so when you go to have them printed as a 4x6, the bottom is cut off along with the date stamp. it's a manual process. Very crappy setting for snapshots. If the flash is on, it will "freeze" the motion but will be really bright.The self timer doesn't work.There's more, but I have to say, I'm really disappointed in this camera.
Then, after about a year I had this lens error. First when I bought this camera it was amazing. My friend has this same camera, the second time they used it it got the same lens error. Amazing quality pictures, great zoom features, and so on. Then, something happened where my face finder stopped working. Canon has no solution for this problem and I know a lot of people who are very rightly upset that this very expensive camera has a flaw that is not repairable. Be very careful when purchasing this product.
Amazing camera it has all the features I look for : AA battery, high power zoom, and a decent megapixel, easy to use, and every picture I take comes out perfect
I've had this camera for a year now.Things I like: easy to move dial for settings (including video), several scenes set right on dial, auto setting works well most of the time, flash can be turned off by not putting it up (lift flash manually or leave down for no flash), zoom is clear for full range of optical zoom, takes good video, big LCD on back, timer easy to get to, face recognition works well, several manual options are easy to get to (if I can remember how to find them).Things I don't like: slow flash charges between photos, battery seems to run out fast (my last camera had a lithium-ion and I miss it), for other people taking a picture for me, the flash is often forgotten (b/c it has to be flipped up to use), sometimes when I push down the shutter button (half way to focus, then all the way to snap a picture), it doesn't take - as if I didn't focus (it's picky about wanting you to focus before pressing the shutter all the way), manual is only partially helpful - it doesn't always explain in full sentences how to do something - a lot of tables/charts. Although I'd like to use more manual settings, and have played around with them, I usually keep it on auto (sometimes ignoring the warning that I need a flash), and pretty much always get good pictures (even when it warns me of a possible shaky picture - it's usually not.Overall, it's been a nice camera to upgrade to (my last was a kodak easyshare DX7440 - loved the lithium ion battery and no waiting for a flash to charge). Those are my only real complaints about this one. The time between charged flashes is shorter with a well charged battery, and the pictures are good, even in low light or less than ideal conditions.
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