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10 out of 13 people found this review helpful
2.5 stars
"Good in daylight but not in low light (over ISO 200)"
Pros: - Great photos in daylight.
- The wheel is much improved over the SD870IS.
- Corner sharpness is greatly improved over SD870IS.
- Very bright AF assist light which helps in lower light focusing.
- Nicely recessed power buttonCons: - Low light photos are not very good. Over-aggressive noise reduction smears fine detail in anything over ISO 200. (Very noticeable in hair detail) Detail cannot be recovered in post processing.
Summary: I really wanted to like this camera but the over-aggressive noise reduction in low light shots smears away too much fine detail for me. Photos taken in ISO200 are passable but ISO400 and above are a muddy mess. I would rather have noise that I can remove myself with Noise Ninja and be able to retain the details. I use this camera for low light photos at parties more than in daylight so this is unacceptable for my needs. If you use it primarily in daylight you may not have a problem with it. I really wish Canon would stop cramming more megapixels into there cameras and focus more on great image quality. For now I'm sticking with older models that don't apply so much detail-robbing noise reduction.
- "Dust orbs" show up occasionally in flash shots.
- 6 replies to this review
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What are dust orbs? I have noticed them on some of my indoor shots. Is there a way to correct for them?
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"Good in daylight but not good in low light" sums up a big issue,(including flash photog.)
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My friend the SD700's Wide angle equivalent was the very excellent SD800 of 2006.
I hear you about the noise, but in a consumer driven market it's all about the bling as the masses only know MegaPixels and therefor that drives the year-over-year market.
As for high ISO performance in a compact like the Elph/IXUS Canon is tops. Fuju's F30 was king for a while but they are also playing the mega pixel game. The next step in compacts is to go CMOS and drop noisy CCD sensors. Nikon figured out why serious photog's chose Canon over Nikon (it's all about the sensor) in their DSLR's last year and now Canon has to play catchup with Nikon's superior Body features (weather sealing, customization, etc).
Anyway, once compacts start using CMOS 10MP won't be as noisy and we'll see better performance. -
the ISO range was only 50 to 800 in older model
you can reduce the mega pixel
this camera has the best ISO performans comparing with its
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I just wanted to add a quick note to my review in response to those who may think I'm trying to compare a point-and-shoot camera to a DSLR. This is certainly not the case but I do expect it to perform at least as well as some of the older compact Canon SD camera models. For example, I own a Canon SD700 IS and did extensive testing between these two models. The image quality of the SD880 IS in low light does not come close to the the quality seen in the Canon SD700 IS. Detail is kept mostly intact using the older model. If Canon would make a wide angle version of the SD700 IS I'd be all over it. :)
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I am using the SD 990 IS but set to 9MPixels. So far so good.
Where to buy
Canon PowerShot SD880 IS (gold):
$549.99
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