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Reviewed by
boneil456
, Intermediate
Price Paid
$150.00
at 2007 Christmas Offic
Photography Experience
6-10 years
Summary
Two weeks after buying my first DSLR (Rebel XTI) I bought this from the guy next to me when he won it in an office drwaing. It's the same size as a cell phone and is small enough to take anywhere, all the time. With its 7MP sensor hitting the sweet spot for tiny sensor density, picture quality is quite good through 400ISO. 800 and 1600 are perfectly usable if you can handle the noise since it still captures good detail. It has a decent feature set and the controls are very intuitive. Perhaps the most pleasant surprise is how good the video capture and sound quality is. Granted at roughly 1MB/sec files are huge, but that's capturing 30 metered 640x480 rames per second!
The SD750's speed of use is another huge benifit. Pretty much as much time as it takes you to hit the power switch and move your finger to the shutter button is all that's needed to capture a picture or video. You can also switch between camera or video in a flash just by sliding a top switch. I caught one of our cats climbing a fence, clicked off a picture on his way up, switched to video and filmed him going over the top, jumping down and coming over to me.
Strengths
Size and weight: eliminates the "I wish I had a camera with me!" syndrome while far surpassing cellphone results. I rode in a Boston Critical Mass ride with my SD750 around my neck on a lanyard capturing very good videos and photos while bicycling.
Decent feature set: it has a good helping of manual controls, quite usefull and effective presets such as Snow, Aquarium, etc. as well as the very effective video abilities.
The SD750 won't challenge a DSLR for IQ, but as a second camera I think it strikes the perfect price/performance/portability compromise.
Weaknesses
No RAW capture: I had it on my retired S30 and miss it but the trade-off is far better portability and picture quality.
View on the screen can be grainy and jumpy when framing, but the photos look fine.
No IS, but the trade-off would be a larger, heavier, more expensive camera. The way around this is creative bracing or using the self-timer.
Similar Products Used
Olympus D490
Canon S30
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