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What You Don't Know About Your Digital Camera
Believe it or not, the SD870IS PowerShot by Canon is one of their best sellers ever, both online, and through bricks and mortar retailers. This PowerShot has a nice compact size, image stabilization, face detection, nice video quality and a generously sized 3 inch LCD screen. But with a lot of products, you need to look a little closer, to find the imperfections. If your even considering buying a Canon PowerShot SD870IS Digital Camera, there are a few negative points you need to be aware of.
At around $350 for the SD950IS, you getting pretty close to the high end in price for a point and shoot camera. With that said, this PowerShot needs to perform extremely well, to convince me not to just move up to an entry level SLR camera. It really doesn't make that grade. 12.1 megapixels may seem to some to be a guarantee of great pictures, but it's not. If your not going to blow pictures to poster size, and do a lot of cropping, then anything over 8 megapixels is a waste. You could probably step down $150, and get an 8 mega-pixel camera that would take just as good pictures.
Canon also made the unfortunate decision with the PowerShot SD870IS to exclude an optical viewfinder. I've seen a lot of point and shoot cameras move in this direction, and it's a real pet peeve for me. Having an optical viewfinder on a camera is not a big expense, and actually gives the consumer more choice in how he or she takes pictures.
With more pressure on the manufactures to provide larger LCD screens, the viewfinder is being sacrificed. Being able to use a viewfinder to frame your pictures when your batteries are being sucked dry by over-sized LCD screens, and an undersized battery capacity is a nice option.
A few other complaints with the Canon SD870IS Digital include. Less than stellar results at high ISO settings. Exposure setting is non adjustable. Far too many photos exhibit red eye subjects. Shooting videos restricts manual adjustments of focus and zoom settings.
The biggest problem with the SD950IS is the price. For about half the price, you can get a multitude of point and shoot cameras that will work just as well. And, for a couple of hundred dollars more, your looking at some near pro level cameras in the entry level SLR category. Any point and shoot camera at this price, needs to walk on water. The SD950IS Digital can't.
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