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Summary: It's smaller than my cell phone
Review: I absolutely have fell in love with this machine, and I have been through many digital cameras. It takes amazing pictures in the dark, fires up fast, and doesn't take long between pictures. I got tired of taking photos of my kids soccer games, and by the time my fuji finally took the picture, the kids were long gone. I have no regrets, well worth it.
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Summary: Great camera, but Virus on Installation CD!
Review: I bought the Canon Powershot SD10 (ixus i) on 22nd Nov and
installed it on my PC. A few days later all my applications stop
working. I scanned the CD and detected 2 infected exe files on it. I've contacted the local Canon representatives and also email
whoever at Canon that i can find online but NOT a single person has
replied my email. A snippet of the email i sent to Canon, with the virus details. Anyone else has this problem? ******************
Unknown to me, the The Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk CD is
shipped with 2 of the files INFECTED with Win32/Resur.b virus! After
installing the Canon CD, some of my applications stop working. It
took many hours to figure out what is wrong with my other word
processing and image editing software, as all I did was to install
your camera driver. One would not expect such a highly regarded
company such as youselves to have such sub-standard quality and
screening control as to allow something as damaging as this happen. The infected files on the Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk Ver.
14.0 CD (C84-1199 Made in Japan) are
D:\SOFTWARE\RCTASK\ENGLISH\LAUNCH.EXE
D:\SOFTWARE\RCTASK\JAPANESE\LAUNCH.EXE
Attached is the screen capture of the virus scan. For your information, the virus has cause most of my applications
on my machine to cease functioning, and subsequently infecting
other machines on the network. It took many hours to clean up the
virus, and reinstalling all the software and update patches. All
this due to a camera driver installation CD from Canon! As you can imagine, I am highly disappointed with the whole
situation, which caused me and my colleagues alot of needless
stress and
wasted time. I have even tried contacting the Malaysian support but
after being passed on from one person to another and finally
having the details of my problem taken down by a very helpful Miss
Gan, who did not offer anything more than other alternatives of
acquiring another copy of the driver - but the damage has ALREADY
been done.
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Summary: cool litte camera
Review: i do not have this camera yet
it is cool litte camera
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Summary: Great Camera !!
Review: I got this small camera because I needed a quality camera which I can carry on my belt for those instant shots. Boy, I am extremely impressed with the quality of the pictures! I also have a Sony F828 8 Megapixel and let me tell you, this camera is up there if you are just printing an 8x10. It was a bit difficult to tell which pictures came from which camera unless you look really close. I also have a Sony Cyber Shot V1 (5 Meg) and the Alph is also up there with the V1, but the Alph's pictures are more colorful than the V1. The V1 is also an impressive camera but not as portable and not quite as color-saturated. The flash on this is much better than the Nikon 5000 because the Nikon flash was too bright most of the time and inconsistent. The color saturation of the Alph is similar to the old Nikon 950, which I love - but the images are much sharper on the SD-10 Alph. It comes with a very nice leather belt holster about the same size as your cell phone and it's just great for portability, virtually un-noticeable. I just absolutely love this camera and have it on me all the time. Get one, you won't regret it.
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Summary: Nearly perfect!
Review: I have had this camera for 4 months, and I absolutely love it! The picture quality is the best, the battery lasts long, and I don't think cameras of this quality get any smaller. My only gripe would be that there is no optical zoom. I just take a normal picture and crop/zoom on the computer. For all the features and the size, it is definitely worth the money.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I just got my camra today! It's the cutest thing ever. It's smaller than the rest of the camra's on the market. The 4.0 mega pix is a plus too! WOW I love it. It's smaller than my cell phone. You should get it too!
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Summary: If size matters, then this is the way to go....
Review: I just got the camera yesterday and immediately started playing with it. Like all other Canons, robust built, feels and touched nice and expensive. Didn't have to read the manual since this is my fouth Canon over the past several years in the ultra compact line. I like my camera to be very small and light and still robust enough to survive small accidents. The startup time is excellent, pretty much like point and shoot. The display adjusts very rapidly to different lighting conditions. An optical viewfinder wold have been great, but the display is sufficient for me. The picture quality in daylight is great, evening pictures with flash are good . Movie quality in low light condition is for me at least sufficient with little distortion. The audio playback in this tiny device is loud enough to understand everything recorded. The camera can be customized with different startup pictures and sounds for all kinds of functions. The camera came with the usual software, an updated version of Zoombrowser ex and some editing software. Since I use my own preferred software to organize and edit my pictures (good old photoshop and picasa), I only assume that Canon put together an easy to use software package for the novice user.
But the camera also has some drawbacks: It is quiet difficult for people with bigger hands to remove the SD card safely and without breaking the card/battery door. As stated by the previous post, the door somehow doesn't fit the rest of the camera. It is made of cheap plastic (the rest of the camera is metal) and doesn't close all the way. I'm afraid it might break off when changing the SD card or battery in a hurry. (better keep your fingernails long to pull out that SD card!)
The battery life seems to be sufficient, but I ordered a spare battery just in case.
The leather case that came with the package is well made but a little oversized for the camera. It is also missing a pocket for a spare battery or addtl. SD card.
Alltogether it was well worth waiting for this device after they stole my old S 330 about two months ago.
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Summary: Tiny
Review: I just received my camera, my words cannot express how tiny this camera is (about the size and weight of a cell phone). I have various digital cameras and have found the tiny ones are the most useful, since they go everywhere with you. Digital zoom quality is very good. Upgraded my Minolta Dimage, which was a good camera as well, but this thing is tiny.
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Summary: Perfect Little Camera
Review: I purchased this camera after much research because it was highly rated for image quality, it is made by a relyable company, and it is small enough to go anywhere. After a few months with this camera I've discovered that this really is the camera that fits all of those criteria. I take this camera everywhere with me without having to carry a larger bag or purse. It is easy to operate and turns on and off quickly. It has pretty good battery life and amazing image quality. I've never had a problem with this camera, but I know I can trust Cannon to provide good technical support when needed. If you will use a camera mostly for point and shoot or small video this is all you need. Some people don't like having only an lcd screen, but it has never bothered me. Also, some people might be annoyed that there is no zooming in movie mode, but I have never needed this feature. Also if you have big, clumsy hands the size of the buttons and camera in general might be too small for you. If you won't be bothered by these few small details you'll love this camera. For the price, size and image quailty this camera is such a bargain.
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Summary: A Tiny Delight
Review: I purchased this camera to use for close-range stuff in clubs, bars, street photography and while having fun (pictures of friends, family, etc.) I wanted a simple point-and-shoot, something with decent specs (wanted at least 3MP) and *especially* something with a form factor as small as possible.
The unit fits into my pocket unnoticed...especially in comparison with most other digicams out there with similar specs. The unit starts up fast (uner 2 secs...nice!) and is fast in taking pics and saving them (don't have a high-speed SD card, oh well...) Focusing I wish was instantaneous, but it is way faster than my Dad's old digicam ever was. It takes maybe 2 - 3 seconds on average, sometimes less. Annyoing, but probably endemic with all digicams in the ballpark range.
The image quality of this unit is super-nice. Color is pure, natural and "living." Detail is high. The superfine JPEG mode is very nice. I wish it had a "raw" option (it may, I don't know how to get it to do that if so), but I don't think it does. Superfine JPEG clocks in at about 2MB per 4MP picture. Not bad, a decent trade-off.
Once you get down into Fine territory, you start to see ever-so-slight fuzziness and jpeg compression artifacts. I am the type of person who appreciates HD video-type signals, and like to see the blackhead on the nose of the guy across the bar. So, take this minor gripe for what it's worth.
The other "negatives" about this unit are no optical viewfinder (you use the review screen to frame shots...believe me, NO big deal AT ALL...preferable for me) and no optical zoom. The optical zoom thing I am of two minds about: on one hand, I have had the *occasional* use for clear zoom. On the other hand, if it means adding even a millimeter to this unit, FORGET about it. So, at the end of the day, it's fine by me.
The images are detailed and sharp. As long as you can keep your hands reasonably still, you will get insane detail to images. Slight softness in high-contrast, distanced situations (such as dark text against a light backgrond on a candy bag on the far end of your shopping cart, for example) exists, but I am splitting hairs.
The DiGIC chip is awesome...images come out consistenly well-balanced (hump in the middle of the graph) and there are plenty of options for displaying image info as they are shot. Also, there are plenty of manual controls, good white balance, etc. WAAAAY more than a user like myself (I understand these things on a surface level, but mostly just want everything done for me...I like point-and-shoot for my applications).
All told, I am very impressed with this unit. It also looks really cool, to boot (I have the silver, and the circular, shiny brushing/grooves on the front look great in club/bar lights or anywhere else...very attractive). Body is metal housing, have had no problems with it. I notice that there are slight dimples if I turn the unit sideways in the light, they were there from the beginning. No biggie, can't see them straight-on.
If you are looking for a light, compact, purse and especially *pocket*-sized unit, I can think of no better than this one. Surprisingly I was able to get it new in West Hollywood, CA. for a significantly lower price than listed here.
The great thing about this unit is the value factor:
a.) good price
b.) you don't have to pay for processing and you can take way more pics with freedom, freeing you to experiment and snap more casual/unposed stuff since there is no extra outlay financially
and
c.) you capture irreplaceable moments in high-detail that easily justify the cost of the unit
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