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13 out of 14 people found this review helpful
3.0 stars
"great camera with noise issues"
Pros: Starts up really fast. Autofocus is quick and accurate under all conditions. Servo-AF allows for action-photography. The 3" LCD is gorgeous; it allows you to zoom into your shots and scan through the entire picture. Controls are ecellent too.
Cons: Noise performance is bad in low-light conditions. Noise reduction seems to kick in really early too. Pictures are not as crisp as I hoped for. They also took off the time-lapse which was present on its predecessor, the sd870.
Summary: In several respects I really like this camera. It's fast, focusing is never an issue, and colors come out really nice. The excellent controls make it fun to play with, check the results of your shots and enable you to display quick slideshows. It has a time-zone option, allowing your photos to be marked with the local time when you're travelling. It has improved face recognition, and an auto-shoot function that is triggered by the recognition of an additional face - nice when you need to make a photo that should include yourself. The timer can also be manually set from 1 to 30 seconds during which 1 to 10 (theoretically) shots can be made.
As far as actual picture quality is concerned, it seems that they improved the quality of the lense (less barrel distortion, less corner softness). I have no complaints there. The only problem (as usual nowadays) is noise performance. I don't have the old model but considering the reviews on the sd870 it must be a better performer than this camera. A crime shame. They only slightly increased the sensor size on this camera to increase the number of megapixels by 25%. I can easily see noise on indoor shots at ISOs as low as 250 without doing 100% crops.
They took off the time-lapse which may have to do with the fact that they put in the DIGIC4 processor. The time-lapse option was a neat movie-function that will be missed by many users. I hope they can put it back in with a firmware upgrade but I don't know if that will be possible.
Although Canon addressed some issues on the sd870 with this upgrade, I'm not sure if the sd880 is really an improvement over its predecessor. It probably may perform better under some circumstances, but noise issues make it less of an allrounder. I see the price of this camera drop really fast in online-shops and it's not even that much more expensive than the SD870 anymore.
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Canon PowerShot SD880 IS (silver):
$499.99
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