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Canon PowerShot SD950 IS comparison

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Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
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Canon PowerShot SD790 IS
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Canon PowerShot SD790 IS

Canon PowerShot SD890 IS
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Canon PowerShot SD890 IS

Price $259.95 to $424.95 $219.94 to $299.99 $249.95 to $349.99 $238.90 to $295.00 $294.00 to $408.68
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Release date August 27, 2007 March 17, 2008 March 17, 2008
The Bottom Line Canon's SD950 IS looks great and can take very nice images, but the digital camera's whopping 12 megapixels will leave you waiting between shots. The Canon PowerShot SD 850 IS has just about everything you'd want in a point-and-shoot. For most people, the excellent photo quality of the Canon PowerShot SD790 IS will more than make up for any slight performance deficiencies or minor shortcomings. While the Canon PowerShot SD870 IS doesn't have an optical viewfinder or manual exposure controls, it captures beautiful images with its wide, 3.8x optical zoom lens and ranks among the top compact cameras we've seen. A solid compact snapshooter, the Canon PowerShot SD890 IS nevertheless disappoints when compared with its predecessors and line-mates.
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Features
Lens aperture F/2.8-5.8
F/2.8-5.5
F/2.8-4.9
F/2.8-5.8
F/3.2-5.7
Equivalent 35mm focal length 36 - 133 mm
35 - 140 mm
35 - 105 mm
28 - 105 mm
37 - 185 mm
Optical zoom 3.7 x
4 x
3 x
3.8 x
5 x
Light sensitivity ISO 200
ISO 800
ISO auto
ISO 400
ISO 80
ISO 3200
ISO 1600
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 800
ISO auto
ISO 400
ISO 80
ISO 1600
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 800
ISO auto
ISO 400
ISO 80
ISO 3200 (2Mpix)
ISO 1600
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 800
ISO auto
ISO 400
ISO 80
ISO 1600
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 800
ISO auto
ISO 400
ISO 80
ISO 3200 (2Mpix)
ISO 1600
ISO 100
Display (projector) technology Low Temperature Poly-Silicon (LTPS)
TFT active matrix
TFT active matrix
Low Temperature Poly-Silicon (LTPS)
TFT active matrix
Memory storage capacity 32 MB
32 MB
32 MB
32 MB
32 MB
Video input type Digital camera
Digital camera
Digital camera
Digital camera
Digital camera
Flash memory form factor MultiMediaCardplus
SD Memory Card
SD Memory Card
SD Memory Card
SD Memory Card
Digital zoom 4 x
4 x
4 x
4 x
4 x
Battery technology Info unavailable Lithium ion
Lithium ion
Info unavailable Lithium ion
Weight 5.8 oz
5.8 oz
5.5 oz
5.5 oz
5.5 oz
Effective sensor resolution 12,100,000 pixels
8,000,000 pixels
10,000,000 pixels
8,000,000 pixels
10,000,000 pixels
Still image format JPEG
JPEG
JPEG
JPEG
RAW
JPEG
Display (projector) diagonal size 2.5 in
2.5 in
3 in
3 in
2.5 in
Manual focus Automatic