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The camera generally produces very solid photos. They're extremely sharp in the center, though like many competitors' shots, there's severe softness around the edges of the frame, which can result in glowy edges on objects. Colors are a little cool but nicely saturated. As is typical of Canon cameras, the automatic white balance can't handle our warm tungsten lights. Noise was negligible to as high as ISO 400, and at ISO 800 became a tolerable, fine grain. ISO 1,600 images were predictably bad, with details hidden and colors muted by a pronounced layer of staticky, sparkly artifacts.
A solid, handy, compact camera, the Canon PowerShot SD900 nevertheless lacks some useful features offered by the similarly priced SD800 IS. Unless you absolutely need the extra pixels--for, say, cropping tightly on a portion of a photo or printing to larger than 8x10--you're probably better off with the faster, stabilized SD800 IS.
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