Canon PowerShot SD1100IS 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The Canon SD1100 IS Digital ELPH includes an 8-Megapixel 1/2.5" CCD imager and a 3x optical zoom lens with image stabilization, which covers a range of 38-114mm equivalent. Exposure is fully automatic with 2.0EV of manual exposure compensation and four metering modes to handle difficult lighting along with a ties metering to the camera's Face Detection system. 13 scene modes keep the camera approachable for beginners. A long-exposure mode in the Canon SD1100 IS ELPH… Product details and pricing info |
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403 Customer Reviews Posted
- Excellent pocket camera with an unfortunate video recording format
- This is a fantastic pocket camera that takes great photos and really good quality movies. Most of the other reviews accurately rave about this.
Here is what I don't like: Canon, in my opinion, made a poor choice with their movie file format (AVI).
I was in the market for a compact photo/video camera that I can easily carry with me for those casual evenings in the park with my 18 month old toddler or settings where you might not need HD quality video or SLR like capabilities. My SLR (Canon Digital Rebel XT) and my video camera (Sony HDR-SR5) were too bulky to lug around for such occasions. I was considering Flip Video Camcorder, but that seemed to lack good photo qualities.
Since most of my family lives far away, I also wanted the ability to easily share my home videos on sites such as youtube.
Movie mode records in AVI which results in HUGE files. They should have used MPEG (H.264)that uses compression while almost retaining the movie quality. A 35 second movie takes up approximately 68 MB of space whereas after conversion to another format such as WMV (using windows movie maker), it takes only 4 MB with an almost unnoticeable quality loss to my untrained eye.
The implications of choosing AVI over MPG (or other compressed file type) are:
1. Your memory card will fill up in no time (an empty 2GB card will allow 16 minutes of video)
2. You will have to convert it (compress) your video before you can upload a 5 minute video to youtube.
I understand that this is a camera and not a camcorder, but a simple change of format would make this device almost flawless! - 2008-10-29, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Keep it simple
- This camera is an unbelievable miracle at less than 175 dollars. It takes beautiful pictures, from macro to fully zoomed. The stabilization makes a significant impact on useability and this little unit creates wonderful video clips.
- 2008-10-29, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good camera for the price
- I am using this to replace a Kodak camera purchased recently. Unfortunatley, I haven't had a chance to use this in order to give a detailed review. Sorry.
- 2008-10-29, 1 of 10 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- canon powershot sd1100is
- Wonderful little camera! Size is perfect, can slide right into my purse. Takes amazing pictures! Great price! Pictures show up extremely well on screen, even outside. Easy to use. Love the gold color. When viewing pics. you can change them from vertical to horizontal just by turning camera. Very cool! I couldn't be happier with purchase.
- 2008-10-28, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good point-and-shoot
- For the price, this point-and-shoot is a good buy. The LCD is large and clear and the controls easy to figure out and operate. Images taken at the shortest focal length are very clear; however, the images taken at the extent of the optical zoom are less clear than I would expect. I would also have liked to see a "force flash" option available. Overall, I am happy with the camera and would recommend it to others.
- 2008-10-26, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
