'The 10-megapixel camera has as solid feature set for a novice photographer who's ready to move beyond snapping photos in automatic mode.'
' The Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS is an affordable pocket camera with an interesting variety of shooting modes, excellent image quality, and optical image stabilisation.
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'JPEG compression setting (normal to superfine, which is appreciably lossless), face detection, and a wide range of selectable resolutions, including matted widescreen modes'
'The Canon A580 automatically detects, tracks, focuses and optimizes the exposure on up-to nine forward looking human faces in the frame or can lock onto a specific face in the crowd, ensuring that all (or one) are in focus and properly exposed, with or without flash.'
'12.1 megapixels offers unparalleled resolution for a compact camera, while the powerful 6x optical zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer Technology delivers clear, blur-free images in low light and all through the zoom range'
'The digital zoom's magnified pixels looked awful in low-light situations.'
'This camera doesn't do anything poorly, and does a host of things quite well.'
'At 3.75 inches wide and just over 1 inch thick, the unit is slightly too big to park comfortably in a shirt pocket'
'It is a lightweight and compact digital camera, allowing the camera to fit unobtrusively into a small purse or shirt-pocket, and be whipped out easily to capture a memorable moment.'
'a generous 11 Scene modes keep the camera approachable for beginners'
'This camera doesn't do anything poorly, and does a host of things quite well.'
'a generous 11 Scene modes keep the camera approachable for beginners'
'[Canon camera naming scheme can sometimes be quite confusing: in Japan and Europe the Canon PowerShot SD950 IS Digital ELPH is known as the Canon Digital IXUS 960 IS'
'the finder cut off a significant portion of the bottom of the frame'
'This is an irritating design, and large thumbs will be prone to accidentally bumping the zoom in or out, or changing settings such as flash when using the zoom.'
'the camera supports only 10 frames per second, even for its "high-quality" VGA clips, which results in pretty jerky video.'