SD800 IS

Congrats on your choice. I have the SD630 and it's a great little point&shoot...just missing the IS. good luck keeping it scratch free =)

Now THAT there is a little beauty!!! I'm so glad you got it... I love my SD700, never leave home without it. I too have the leather case, plus picked up a 4GB SD card for 99.00 (not ultra fast but don't really need it for this cam.) If you're as anal with your stuff as I am, you won't have a prob keeping it shiny and new looking. You will have this by your side every minute of the day, even with the big guns. Damn it's so sexayyy... enjoy!! :))

I had the SD630 and recently upgraded to the SD900 - I wish it had the IS. I have the S3 with the IS, and the XTI SLR - I'm a Canon freek lol :)

Congrats on this one - I came THIS close to getting it.

nice cam! ;-D

Bryan best of luck...it's a tiny little bugger, very portable..and doesn't bounce like you'd think when it hits the floor of your car as it slides off the passenger seat in a panic stop..it just kinda flops once or twice and stops. Still works ...and the little covers haven't snapped off yet either..and I'm very hard on p/s cameras, they tend to get sat upon or pepsi syndromed etc..

No case, scratched the heck out of it first day...but I did place a PDA protector over the LCD..

it truely is small enough to pocket,...just tough as heck in dim light to hold still enough(I'm used to the Nikon 18-200vr lens...that's stable)...and the optical VF is pretty limited ...So you'd have to focus with the LCD, hold the shutter and then compose with the OVF but it doesn't really show how the final shot is framed so you'll probably have to crop sometimes.

The zoom is twitchy.

I truely am a point and shooter with this camera...I compose kinda but many of my shots are while driving..so it's under adverse shooting conditions and some of the shots actually turn out.. It's not as good as my Olympus 35 mm PS was ,,,but I think the camera is just too small...and unwieldy. where the olympus was a bit more beefy and filled the hand better especially while I hand the officer my license and registration..

The flash seems to produce little balls of flare or canon blows them off as dust in the air.....Columbus must be dusty.....so in a night landscape type shot with flash...look out for them...they are everywhere.

I've posted a few shots of That ART thing downtown (morning) and Downtown from Genoa of day and night. And there are 1 or two night shots from the parking garage at the state university downtown facing W.. . if you want to get a feel for how it meters.. and what it looks like from a sharpness idea. It gives the Nikon D50 a run for it's money in the metering dept....but...but...it misfocuses a bit.

I've blown some face shots...where the green square thingy...seems to be focusing on the foreground subject intended...and instead...locks onto the building 100 feet behind... Oh well...it's made in china not in heaven and from what I've been told It can't pick lotto numbers very well either. (look at Dad in my photostream with canon and columbus
to get a sense of it's focus mishaps.)

I'm a little disappointed with it's overall sharpness....but it has a really tiny lens so ....I've mostly forgiven it for that...

IF I had to buy a canon again I'd opt for a A series...with IS since the lump on the right side under the snapper /trigger thing...seems to improve stability in my hand(s)...
As to the IS..I guess it helps... I tend to shoot low ISO not auto.
And the night shots while I'm driving...other than for memories sake aren't that still....but I do drinks alot of the caffine though... I can't imagine how bad my shots would be minus the IS..

Shooting while driving...and steering with ones knees..ain't recommended ,but that one brightly lit over the shoulder shot of the state capitol came out amazingly well considering I just pointed and tossed a hail mary, one handed of course.. (however the twilgiht shots around columbus and of the Michigan state capitol..will give you a flavor of just how easy it is to not hold this camera still enough in low light minus flash.)

The video feature is nice if you need motion and sound.
The battery hasn't really been a problem..and lasts long enough and recharges relatively fast.

Other wise its a 7.5 out of 10. * Good job finding it so inexpensively..

wow, markbajekphoto gave quite a good review on this camera - it is true the A-series have higher quality pics...but the SD900 is so damn nice. I'm sure the metal it's made in is worth more than the camera :)

Happy photo shooting!

Fensterbme, good philosophy on 'point and shoots." I would only consider the A710 because it is probably the smallest of the bunch. Otherwise, only Canon's SD and Sony are truely small and still take quality photos.

I'm loving my SD800 IS though I miss the full manual mode I had with my old school A70. I find myself taking more pictures in places I normally wouldn't with the A70 thanks to the small form factor of the SD800. I do notice the corner softness in certain shots, but the wide angle zoom more than makes up for that small deficiency. Canon makes great cameras.