Perfect for expanding your creative options on compact cameras and entry-level EOS DSLRs, Canon’s Speedlite 270EX adds power and flexibility for enhanced flash photography anywhere. Light, compact and small enough to fit in your pocket, Speedlite 270EX features 2-step coverage for 28mm and 50mm focal lengths, plus a highly useful bounce-flash function for amazingly easy, polished results. An indispensable complement to your Canon camera, Speedlite 270EX is a perfect extension of your photographic genius.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Speedlite 270 EX
This flash was purchased to use on my canon G9 and I did not want something too large. The 270 EX is the perfect size for this and all G series cameras. The tilt head is also an added benefit for bounce flash. I find this flash to be more than adequate for interior shots and would not shot without it.

5 Stars Nice compact flash to take anywhere
I bought the 270EX to add to my Powershot SX10IS. Using the flash unit is simple: snap on, turn on, aim, fire. That’s it. Have two AAs handy. That’s all you need. No knobs, no digital settings, no programming of any kind. No frills. But this little unit will do the job. Since the SX10IS is now my backup camera, the 270EX provides the portability and basic added service I need. No professional shots with this speedlite. But pictures with the SX10IS are so much better illuminated now and not overly harshly. I also use a diffuser and I recommend you use one too, if you eventually settle on this little unit. The price is right and the results just perfect for the kind of photography the 270EX is designed for. Give this flash a serious consideration. You won’t be disappointed.

4 Stars simple, affordable, easy.
I have a Canon PowerShot Pro1 and I’m working on upgrading it with some accessories. This is the first accessory flash I’ve ever owned and I’ve found it to be quite capable, especially considering its relatively inexpensive price tag (compared to other more “professional” models).

The flash runs on two AA batteries, so it’s easy to carry spares and pop new ones in in just a few seconds, even while you’re on the go. The unit slides easily onto my Canon camera, but will not mount up to my old 35mm Minolta. I had been under the misguided impression that all ‘hot shoe’ fittings were universal across the camera world and I was proven quite wrong. Anyway, once mounted, the flip of a small switch locks the flash securely to the camera. The flash also comes with a protective nylon-feeling bag in which to store the unit when not in use.

The flash is quite versatile for a beginner or intermediate photographer as the flash output is fully adjustable (through your camera’s menu settings). The flash itself has physically adjustable settings for regular “straight on” flash photography, as well as telephoto pictures. The flash will also tilt upwards to varying angles to allow you to ‘bounce’ the flash off the ceiling in order to create a softer, more natural overhead lighting effect instead of blasting your subject straight on with a blinding flash.

I’ve taken nearly 200 photos on my first set of batteries, and I am noticing that the flash takes quite a while to warm up initially, however once warm, it seems to recycle in between shots at a reasonably quick rate.

In summary, if you want to expand your Canon D-SLR camera’s flexibility and usefulness without dropping $400-500 on an accessory flash, this is the one for you. This unit has a smaller size and a smaller price tag than many other models, but packs a lot of punch.

5 Stars Great entry level flash
Perfect flash for my new Canon SX20IS. Compact size and easy controls with the ability to bounce the flash.

5 Stars Speedlite 270EX – nice little package
I’m really happy with this flash. I tested it against my 430EX in my livingroom by bouncing both off the sloped ceiling. I tested both with and without a diffuser. I have an Omnibounce for the 430EX and a Zeikos diffuser for the 270EX. The 270EX did just as well as the 430EX with consideration to exposure, albeit the 430EX took no time to recycle and the 270 about 1-2 seconds. No recycle time if shooting straight ahead. Not bad for such a small package. Fits my G11 and SX10 very nicely. At less than 1/3 the size of the 430EX it’s very light and easy to carry.

Couple of caveats –

270EX has no manual controls so flash exposure must be done with the camera.

The head doesn’t swivel so the camera cannot be used in the portrait position if you want to bounce the flash off the ceiling. You can bounce it off the wall though if side lighting. Bouncing off the ceiling can be accomplished by using a hot shoe adapter cord and removing the flash from the camera and then aim the flash at the ceiling.

Although the 270EX isn’t as powerful as the 430 series, extra reach can be obtained by bumping up the camera’s ISO one notch.

All in all a powerful flash for it’s size.

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The Canon Deluxe Tripod is a strong, rigid tripod with heavy-duty legs, center bracing, and gear center column crank. It is an excellent all round tripod for use with all but the heaviest lens-camera combinations. The anodized black finish is distinctive and functional, and the pad feet give you good traction on any surface. This Deluxe Tripod 200 features a built-in bubble level.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars This is worth the money!
I’m satisfied with this and I’m planning on using with more higher end Canon cameras like the EOS line, but for now its good with the PowerShot SD940 IS especially since it shoots 720p @ 30FPS.

5 Stars Good product for the price
It fits perfectly my Rebel XS with kit lens (I haven’t tried bigger lens yet). It’s lightweighted and I can see me carrying it everywhere. It can be adjusted to several different hights, which gets taller than I can use (I’m 5 feet). Overall: for less than $40, this is a VERY good product.

4 Stars Worth more than the money
I got a new Canon camera, and the old tripod did not work with it, so I ordered the Canon 200

so I could shoot some Halloween pix outside in the dark. I actually paid almost as much for fast

shipping as the tripod. It works fine, folks. Not as good as a tripod costing 4 times as much, but

I knew that.

The complaints that this tripod is a piece of plastic junk are without merit.

It’s a pretty good little unit. Hard to beat the price.

And I will continue to use it.

5 Stars It’s a Canon…dude.
Well built and thought out. Solid and sturdy for its price. You wont regret it.

5 Stars Excellent Purchase!
This tripod is everything I could ask for and more. Excellent price, excellent shipping and I am extremely satisfied thanks!

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CANON BATTERY GRIP

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great product for my Canon 50D
Extends battery life so well and is easy to install and use. I love it. Can’t believe I took so long to get it.

If you take lots of photographs you need this.

5 Stars Canon BG-E2N Battery Grip – Great Addition to Your Canon Camera
I have purchased 2 of these in the past 3 months. One for myself and one as a gift. The price beats the in-store price of almost $300 and the battery grip is easy to use. I used my battery grip with 2 batteries a whole week on a cruise (vacation) and took hundreds (almost thousands) of pictures. I never had to charge the batteries.

Great product – and a great gift!

5 Stars Original Canon battery grip for Canon 50D (comes with AA battery tray)
first, let’s talk about shipping is amazing fast! I order it a day before Thanksgiving and it arrived today noon, a day after Thanksgiving. so the shipping rate is amazing. it wasn’t thanksgiving it probably arrived yesterday.

( it may take longer in different places, I’m from NYC )

second, this battery grip is made by Canon, so it feels and matches the body identical. if you are wondering how is feels about the quality, then you should go ahead and grab the grip on your DSLR. the feeling that you get from it is the feeling that you expect from the battery grip. (mine is Canon 50D)

* This product comes with a 6 AA battery tray so no need to spend your money to get it. the battery grip is made in Japan.

Installation is easy, takes less then a minute. plus it has an instruction in it. after installed it my 50D looks a lot more professional but camera with the grip plus a Canon flash, it feels a lot heavier. but i can deal with it, and it is not that a big deal.

over all good product and i would recommend it

5 Stars Why wait…….. this is a must!
Excellent quality and it certainly adds versatility to your photo outings! It does add both weight and bulk to your camera, though this is not necessarily a terrible thing, as it makes your camera feel more stable in pose.

Camera straps seem to always be in the way when used in vertical mode.

I love the fact that battery life worry is a thing of the past!

Installation is simple and quick. It only involves the removal of the camera’s battery cover (which is a factory option – nothing shady or difficult here).

I am glad I purchased this grip… I just wish that I hadn’t waited a full year!

5 Stars Nearly mandatory for those of us with big hands
This is also a huge help with the 50D’s live view which takes battery power. The AA emergency backup trays for the grip have always lived in my camera bag and have never been used, but it’s good to have since you can find AA batteries most anywhere.

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User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Good for outdoors… I’ts an OK camera not an amazing one
I bought the New A 1100 IS because for being stupid I just gave away my A740 which I loved… I needed to have something portable and easy to carry around. So I decided I wanted to try this little one and take it with me to Italy because I didn’t want to walk around with the big SLR.

So I have to say is not bad if the weather conditions help with ntural light. On cloudy days the image quality is not the best, but in sunny days the pictures come out beautifully. The camera can be really slow in low light conditions and even that it has an image stabilization if you move a bit the image comes out blurry. It has no super macro setting like the A 470, but the macro setting is not bad. This camera eats the batteries really fast, it works better with rechargeable batteries, Other wise be ready to change batteries every 30 minutes. The indoors setting works ok. The view finder is good to have but if you use lots of zoom the picture comes out diferently than what you see through the view finder, so be careful with that.. I would say this is an OK camera, not an amazing camera.

In general I was more happy with my A 470 I shoulded not give it away!!!

5 Stars What a great camera!
Gave this to my wife earlier this year. She is using it constantly and it takes great pictures.

Pro’s: Takes great pictures, even in low light. Super detail.

Con’s: It takes about a second for the focus to settle, If you just mash the button, you get and out of focus picture.

I’d still rate it as an excellent camera since most of the competition also has this usability flaw.

4 Stars Canon PowerShot A1100IS
Good Camera for the money. Pictures OK, a little on the flat side, could be a little more vivid, more contrast. Dose pretty good with kids (fewer blurred shots). Battery life seems a little short (Uses cheap AA Rechargeable though). Fits in your pocket!

5 Stars Excellent buy – You cannot go wrong with it.
I recently got this camera to gift it to my sister. While I got a chance to play with it I could not stop short of exclaiming Wow’s.

I regularly use my DSLR, but the ease-of-use provided by this camera has got me into thinking of buying one for myself.

Though Canon stopped providing Manual exposure controls Av, Tv, M, … on their lower-end point-and-shoots the pictures still come out pretty good.

There is a Program Exposure feature which can be played with to your liking.

The optical IS is a boon and I have come to appreciate its value since I have wasted quite a lot of photos on my DSLR as I cannot hold the camera still enough while the shutter has been opened.

Hopefully Canon starts making the A590IS series which now sell for more than $200. In the meantime Canon A1100IS is your answer to better photos.

4 Stars Canon camera
Great price. It did not arrive in time for the birthday but I should have changed the shipping rate!

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Specifically designed For the Powershot SD780 IS. This case is ideal for travel and storage of your digital camera. Allows for easy access to your camera while in case and provides custom fit protection.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars case is good, but magnet on the lid too weak
I like the case. It looks good and fits perfect on camera. only weak feature of this case is magnet on the cover flap. The magnet is too weak that it can’t keep the case closed.

5 Stars Exactly how expected it!
I bought this item along with several other items posted on Amazon and I am extremely satisfied as always when I purchased any items with Amazon. They delivered their promise exactly how they stated it.

5 Stars It works for the sd940 IS
Works with the powershot SD940 IS. Just requires that you stretch out the top cover a little bit. It’s leather and you just have to work it a little to get that perfect fit on the 940. Solid quality case.

5 Stars Fits the SD940IS
After reading some of the other reviews I wasn’t sure if the magnetic flap would close if I used this case with the SD940IS. The SD940IS is 2mm longer than the SD780IS. Well, don’t worry it fits the SD940IS perfectly like a glove and the flap closes just fine. The first time when it was straight out of the box and I closed the cover, the magnet didn’t catch. Then I pushed the camera inside a little more snug, and I pulled the flap a bit. Then it snaps shut every time, if you just give it a little tug the first few times to “break it in.” Now it just naturally falls into the right position to catch on the magnet. So if you have the SD940IS – I say go ahead buy this very nice leather case.

5 Stars Made For the Canon SD780 IS
I have the Canon SD780 IS camera and was looking to find a case for it. I bought this camera for its small size so I wanted a case that wasn’t too large. That would have defeated the purpose of buying a small camera in the first place.

This case is very sleek and fits the camera like a glove. It says it was made specifically for the SD780 IS directly on the packaging. The case is made of leather and the inside is lined with some sort of soft fabric material so it won’t scratch the camera when sliding it in & out. The flap is held in place by a magnet and there’s a belt loop on the back. This case it almost perfect.

The only thing I don’t like about it, which is actually rather minor and can’t be helped, is the hole on the top of the case for the hand strap. Every time you put your camera in the case, you need to string the strap through the small hole. Otherwise, the flap will not close because magnet is not strong enough to hold it. Also, the plastic piece on the strap gets caught on the small hole. But other than this, I don’t think you’ll find a better case for the SD780 IS.

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An impressive 10x Optical Zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer keeps you sharp and steady. Everything about the Canon Powershot SX120 IS Digital Camera is easy. The Smart AUTO feature makes every shot picture-perfect. There’s even an Easy Mode that makes shooting super simple. So be sure to pick up the Canon Powershot SX120 IS Digital Camera today!

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Bought For My Nine Year Old Son
The Camera is not flashy but takes some good photos. Some that are actually really good. We haven’t played with it enough to know the depths of the menus, but it’s easy to navigate-especially because we were used to Canon cameras. I have noticed that when I put the pictures as a desktop, they seemed noisy. It may be something I’m not doing right. All in all we like this camera and my son is thrilled.

4 Stars A very good general use camera
The Canon SX-120 is a good camera. It gives the user the option of

“point and shoot” operation, specific environment setting or selected

aperture and shutter control.

I was using the A75 model when I switched to the SX-120 so I can only

compare those two.

The 120 takes great pictures. I’ve only displayed the pictures on PC and

hand held screens so I can’t comment on the print quality. At 10 megapixels,

prints should be pretty good. (The jpeg files are more than three times the

size of those from the 3.5 megapix A75)

I like the expanded scene setting options, the super zoom capability,

the large display screen and the high quality pictures.

I also like that it only needs 2 AA batteries rather than 4. (The shooting

batteries last longer since there is a separate button battery for keeping date/time).

I appreciate the manual flip flash which means you’re unlikely to have

the flash go off when you didn’t intend it to. (happened a lot with the A75)

I don’t like the lack of a printed user manual. Even the user guide on pdf

file is not thorough enough to cover the capabilities of the SX-120.

I don’t like the controls. They feel flimsy and are bunched together. The camera lacks the solid feel of the A75 which has a firm grip and solid controls. I also think the SX120 battery cover feels dangerously close to snapping off against the spring loaded batteries when I open it up.

In spite of those foibles, I am satisfied with the SX-120

4 Stars So far so good
I am still learning how to operate my camera. I would have preferred a written manual to the CD simply because with my lifestyle I am not always near a computer to access the manual. I like to read at night and I can study the written manual and re-read functions that I intend to use. I almost returned the camera because I could not find any written reference to delayed shots. This feature is very important to my lifestyle and after several days of frustration I popped in the CD and there it was. The CD may work for some lifestyle but is a huge hassel for me. I want a written manual with all the details. V.Thomas KC,MO

4 Stars Great Point and Shoot with a few caveats
I’ve done a fair amount of researching to buy a point and shoot to complement my DSLR that I already use.

Keep in mind a few things with point and shoots… they are NOT DSLR’s and will not have the same quality of picture, regardless of megapixels. Good pics are lens and lighting moreso than megapixel count.

I’ve seen a lot of negatives with “low light” and it’s fair to complain, but a good picture requires the right lighting. I’ve found that the SX120 takes good low-light pictures where there is enough light for part of your subject. I took a picture of several people doing Rock Band in a room with lots of track lighting and a mirrored ceiling. The focal point looks great but the lesser lit guitarist was a bit blurred. I took a second shot with flash and it’s much sharper, but the flash changes the look with background glare from the mirrored ceiling. Lighting matters!

I had originally bought a Samsung TL220, falling for the glam of touchscreen, dual screens (front and back) and all that stuff. I took it back because the picture quality (low light or not) simply was substandard for a $280 camera. I found the SX120 by chance at Target on sale for $199.

The SX120 takes great pictures for a point and shoot (keep that in mind!). It also has all the important features of the more expensive point and shoots (I like that it has 16:9 wide angle). But for the shutterbug that wants more, you can control shutter and aperture like a DSLR. You also control the flash, since you have to manually flip it up. Believe it or not, that’s a great feature because I don’t always remember to menu around to turn off the flash.

It is not as slim as the newest models but it is small enough for a shirt/coat pocket (albeit bulky looking in the pocket).

Keeping this from 5 stars is battery life and flash recycle. The two AA batteries that came with the camera lasted long enough for test shots and one Christmas party with sparse use. You will always need batteries on hand for this camera. The flash also takes a painful 4 to 5 seconds to regenerate… that is unacceptably slow when you need it under most circumstances.

4 Stars A very impressive camera for the price with some really stupid software…
I was looking for the best zoom with image-stabilization in the under-$200 category and I’m pretty sure I’ve found it. In addition, I got what seems to be the smartest camera in its class. Unfortunately, the people who designed it were thinking more about getting the images onto the camera than getting the images off. It doesn’t mount as a USB mass-storage device and the bundled software is total “poo.” It’s a good camera, but save yourself a headache and get a card reader if you don’t have one already.

I paid about $20 less than Amazon’s price for this camera, which put it in the same price range as a typical 3x-zoom pocket Panasonic, Pentax or Kodak camera, but IMHO it’s better than any of those and way better than the Olympus cameras I’ve tried that cost more. Some of those other cameras will be 12-megapixels while this one’s a “mere” 10MP, but don’t buy into the megapixel myth.

*_Pros:

10x optical zoom for the price of a 3x zoom camera. The image-stabilization makes it a snap to get great pics while zoomed to the max.

Picture quality is very nice. With decent lighting there’s little noise, banding or color-shifting, even at the edges of the images where other cameras tend to sneak it in. Indoors, in Auto mode there’s some fine noise in the red and green channels that’s easily detectable, but about on-par with cameras in this price-range.

The Auto setting gets you shooting high quality pictures in a hurry. About 2 seconds from power-on to the first shot.

If, like me, you love to fiddle, this thing offers lots of manual settings. ISO, WB, manual focus, aperture control, custom exposure time up to 15 seconds… The Manual settings are especially useful for indoor and macro shots.

People complain about the camera eating batteries. The cheap batteries that it came with were depleted before I’d finished reviewing the controls, but with Energizer Titaniums I easily got at least 250 shots — some with flash — before the batteries ran down. I haven’t tried Lithium yet.

The little battery used just for keeping time. Sometimes I leave my camera shelved for a month or two and with previous cameras I’d have to set the time and date and other presets all over again. This camera: No pain.

Duplicating images and some tweaking including red-eye correction can done be while browsing images in Playback mode instead of at the time of the shot.

The camera can be set to display detailed image data including a histogram when a picture is displayed at the time that it’s shot and also later in the Preview mode.

Pop-up flash with fine flash controls.

Uses standard AA batteries. No proprietary charger to deal with.

I honestly don’t know that the auto face recognition does anything to improve my picture-taking, but it’s fun to play with when you’ve got lots of people in a shot and the time to fuss around.

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*_Cons:

While the manual says that the camera’s memory card will mount on a Mac or PC using the supplied USB cable, I’ve found that it simply doesn’t work and a little Googling confirmed that this is an epic fail for almost all Canon cameras. The camera is detected on the USB bus, but it’s never mounted as a mass-storage device. I’ve got a card reader so it isn’t a big deal, but it’s annoying. Notably, if you lack a card-reader and if you’ve got a Mac, Apple’s Image Capture software — bundled with the OS — detects the camera and lets you copy the images anywhere on your drive quite efficiently. This is in contrast to…

The “Camera Window” software that Canon wants you to use to get images and movies off of the memory card is one of the most stupid inefficient pieces of crud ever to pollute my computer. It has almost no configurable options, shows thumbnails but doesn’t allow a user to simply drag and drop images to the Desktop or to a convenient folder and forces the user to import the images into an awful awful awful proprietary image-catalog application. Whoever decided to push this lousy software on us deserves to be tarred and feathered and publicly flogged. I just want the memory card on my camera to mount on my computer so that I can copy my pictures to wherever the heck I want and decide for myself how I want my images cataloged. Almost every digital camera did that 10 years ago. Why is it so hard for modern camera-makers to do this?!!

WB suffers a lot indoors when using the Auto mode without the flash.

The camera’s display tends to make images look brighter and more saturated than they actually are. Plan accordingly.

Continuous shooting has a delay of about a second between shots. It should be faster.

When shooting video, the WB and ISO seem to be stuck at whatever setting they are at when the camera starts recording so moving from a bright room to a darker room makes for color-shifts and noise.

Also when shooting video, the optical zoom is stuck at whatever setting you had when you started recording. You can’t zoom out from there and zooming in from that point is digital-only and adds noise.

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*_Nit-Picking:

The plastic case makes it seem like this camera is low-end when it just ain’t.

The battery compartment can be hard to open. There should be some grooves in the battery-door to help you get the traction to slide the door out to the position where it swings open. I’ve found a trick to doing it with minimal effort: Move the little button with your fingernail, then keep your fingernail in the slot and push with the edge of your nail towards the side of the camera to slide the battery-door out to the point where it can swing open.

Movies are shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio (640×480, AVI, MJPEG compression with raw 8-bit/11KHz mono audio). They are generally of excellent quality — good enough to stand in for a camcorder in a pinch — but modern devices should shoot in 16:9 instead of 4:3. Oddly, VLC reports encoding errors in the movie files, but QuickTime 7 has no problem with them.

It’s not really big or heavy, but this is not a camera that can easily fit in a pants-pocket. It does fit in the inside pocket on some of my coats. I actually went out and got a little camera case with a belt-loop and shoulder-strap for mine so I don’t have to worry about it dangling from my wrist when I’m not using it.

The big white wrist strap that mine came with is ugly. I replaced it with a svelte gray strap from another camera.

The PhotoStitch software that it comes with crashes instantly under Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6. I didn’t buy it for the cheezy software, but if you want to make panaramas be warned.

The images are saved at 180dpi. I’ve noticed this with other Canon cameras. I can see a rationale for 72 dpi. I can see 96 or 244 or 300dpi. Why 180dpi? I know that it’s arbitrary and largely meaningless, but that number is just weird.

I wish this camera would save pictures in LZW TIFF or RAW format. I hate JPEG.

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Okay, so you’ve read this far and you see lots of criticisms. I still recommend this camera. It takes good pictures, it’s got a great zoom with some of the best image-stabilization I’ve seen and the interface is suitable for both the neophyte and the advanced amateur user. It’s a sweet camera and the price is fantastic for what you get. If you want better, you’re going to end up paying a lot more.

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User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars Not easy for mom to use, buttons terrible.
I expected the latest Canon powershot for around $200 to OFCOURSE AUTOmatically be awesome. I will not give a long review. About functionality and ease of use- if you enjoy pressing buttons only to have another function take over instead, buy this camera. If you enjoy only being able to use your fingernails to select, a battery door that will surely snap off sooner than later, and pictures that are not as sharp as the previous models, then go ahead. Ofcourse I have been able to take some good shots with the legendary Canon name, but I am very upset that someone bought this for my Mom. She refuses to use it based on hours of frustration with buttons that were cheaply designed for profit, not the true enjoyment of the user. The next powershot will probably be great, you just never know.

4 Stars Love my little green camera!!!
This is the second Canon camera I’ve owned. I just gave my Canon SD750 to my son so he can take pictures of his carpentry work. I needed a camera with more MPG’s to photograph my Jewelry for my new website. I just love the ease of getting good quality pictures that show the beauty of the Swarovski crystals I make my jewelry with. Great sparkle quality!!!!!

My camera is always close at hand, you never know when something beautiful will catch your eye, out comes my Canon. Point and voila!! a great picture.

4 Stars Great Camera at Great Price
Pros

1. very light weight, small but easy to handle, menu easy to manage/navigate

2. improved quality pic taking. auto adjust to different environment/lighting, auto adjust to shaky hand. wide screen option is provided.

3. good looking design, multicolor, i got a green color cam to join Obama’s “Green xyz” rah rah.

4. good pricing. $149. cheaper than my AS Powershot

Cons

1. battery. need to walk around with a battery charger. inconvenient. nice if rechargeable from PC’s USB port.

2. memory. camera comes without memory card, fortunately, i can swap the card from my other PowerShot cam.

3. cam pouch. nice if a small cloth pouch is provided.

overall, great price for a great camera.

5 Stars Great little camera
This is our second (or third?) small digital camera. The first couple were first generation models with minimum features and resolution. Then we started using big DSLRs. I expected this ‘little camera’ to have minimal quality, but I was wrong. This camera approaches the DSLRs in both features and image quality. I was especially impressed with the video it took. The only negative I’ve seen is that when you zoom in at some point it switches over to ‘digital zoom’ and the quality drops dramatically. This can be turned off, so it’s really not a problem, just something to be aware of. My wife was looking for a small camera she could have with us when the DSLR was too big and this little guy more than fills the bill.

5 Stars For most people
This camera is not your average camera. I must confess I had Canon cameras ever since I started purchasing digital cameras. Therefore I might be bias by giving an opinion without testing the others out there. Although, I did at one point own a Casio Slim camera and was satisfied. However, the picture quality and the features that a Canon offers I must say beats the rest by far.

Good luck and happy snapping.

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With a 20x wide-angle zoom, the 12.1-megapixel PowerShot SX20 IS offers intelligent, versatile shooting power. Switch to Smart Auto mode for effortlessly great results, or shoot stunning HD movies.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars An excellent camera
This is an excellent all-around camera that will not break the bank. I considered the EOS, D models, etc., but in the past I tired of lugging and changing all the extra lenses. Canon has fixed the main complaints that I had with the 5IS (which stopped working after about 5 years and probably 7-10,000 pictures): the cap now stays on and the megapixils have increased enough to allow photo shopping the pictures taken in low light conditions without excessive graininess.

4 Stars Canon Powershot camera
I have only had this camera for a month, so I am not totally use to using it yet. I like the camera and with basic pictures I am doing OK. The book that comes with the camera gives only basics and when I try to view the “book on CD” on my computer I have difficulty because you cannot just turn pages. You have to know what you are looking for and type in specifics in order to get an answer. You do not always know what to type in. The camera really needs a book WITH the product or the option to get one from Canon at no additional cost.

The camera has a video button that allows you to video no matter what mode you have the camera set at. You can also zoom while in video mode, which I was not able to do with my previous camera. Nice feature.

1 Star new cannon
Great camera once you learn and remember all of the features. Good zoom, quality pics. My lens cap falls off all the time, even after it is secured. Seems like a small matter, but its a real distraction at sporting events or other crowds.

5 Stars A wonderful buy
So far so good and I’ve had it for a month. I am very pleased with this camera. Great zoom and sharp-crisp pictures. To think of the 20x zoom but still so compact is amazing- it is much larger than my old camera- a cybershot I replaced, but it’s still easy to transport and lightweight. Only things I would change: the door that closes the compartment that holds the memory stick I can tell could easily break off. This is something you want to take care in. Also I didn’t know it until after I had shot the video of my son’s elementary play, but while using the video, if you take a picture- the video shows this; ie: the video will pause and it shows a shutter capturing the image prior to going back to video- also on the video it picked up now sound at all- so FYI- don’t plan to use this as a video camera- which I didn’t I just was wanting to see the quality- which is good though.

Big positives- battery life. I was very leary about buying a camera that uses regular batteries. In the past cameras, especially digital ones, would eat those things up. I’ve always had to use lithiums with my sony cameras. But this camera has great battery life. I have yet to see the battery status even go down at all yet- a month later, using the lcd screen the entire time, and using it a lot. Oh and this is with generic batteries that came with the camera, I imagine a good Energizer or Duracell will be even better. I do have rechargable Ni type batteries that will work with the camera too, but not sure I’ll even need them! And the features- there are so many and so many settings, that for right now I just use the auto-setting. I have been playing around trying to master the rest.

A few quick points of interest: the flash is only auto if you have it flipped up. It does not flip up itself, but the screen will show “flip up flash” if needed. I like this though as you can choose to have artificial lighting or not- I prefer pictures without a flash if it can be done. I’ve seen where people said you had to use the Canon software to download pictures correctly and it does say that in the manual- untrue for me so far. It downloads the pictures even vertical ones correctly but simply downloading via usb, or card reader and just using the general built in picture finder software we all have on our microsoft formatted computers. I find this to be easier anyway so they save directly to the folder I want and I don’t have to toy with their software (I’m sure it’s a ploy to buy services and merchandise through them.

Overall very good camera and very happy!!!!

5 Stars Good features. Great camera.
This camera has all the features an amatuer could need or want. Sometimes it can be difficult to find the right setting or effect because of all the different options. It takes great photos when I take pictures. My wife has difficulties sometimes; I can’t figure out why. It’s not huge, but is obviously more cumbersome than pocket cameras. I have not had to replace the batteries yet (8 weeks).

In summary: Great pictures, Good value.

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10-megapixel effective recording * 2-1/2″ LCD screen * viewfinder * 3X optical zoom (4X digital/12X total zoom) * optical image stabilization * 35mm equivalent lens focal length: 35-105mm * top JPEG resolution: 3648 x 2736 *

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars Not easy for mom to use, buttons terrible.
I expected the latest Canon powershot for around $200 to OFCOURSE AUTOmatically be awesome. I will not give a long review. About functionality and ease of use- if you enjoy pressing buttons only to have another function take over instead, buy this camera. If you enjoy only being able to use your fingernails to select, a battery door that will surely snap off sooner than later, and pictures that are not as sharp as the previous models, then go ahead. Ofcourse I have been able to take some good shots with the legendary Canon name, but I am very upset that someone bought this for my Mom. She refuses to use it based on hours of frustration with buttons that were cheaply designed for profit, not the true enjoyment of the user. The next powershot will probably be great, you just never know.

4 Stars Love my little green camera!!!
This is the second Canon camera I’ve owned. I just gave my Canon SD750 to my son so he can take pictures of his carpentry work. I needed a camera with more MPG’s to photograph my Jewelry for my new website. I just love the ease of getting good quality pictures that show the beauty of the Swarovski crystals I make my jewelry with. Great sparkle quality!!!!!

My camera is always close at hand, you never know when something beautiful will catch your eye, out comes my Canon. Point and voila!! a great picture.

4 Stars Great Camera at Great Price
Pros

1. very light weight, small but easy to handle, menu easy to manage/navigate

2. improved quality pic taking. auto adjust to different environment/lighting, auto adjust to shaky hand. wide screen option is provided.

3. good looking design, multicolor, i got a green color cam to join Obama’s “Green xyz” rah rah.

4. good pricing. $149. cheaper than my AS Powershot

Cons

1. battery. need to walk around with a battery charger. inconvenient. nice if rechargeable from PC’s USB port.

2. memory. camera comes without memory card, fortunately, i can swap the card from my other PowerShot cam.

3. cam pouch. nice if a small cloth pouch is provided.

overall, great price for a great camera.

5 Stars Great little camera
This is our second (or third?) small digital camera. The first couple were first generation models with minimum features and resolution. Then we started using big DSLRs. I expected this ‘little camera’ to have minimal quality, but I was wrong. This camera approaches the DSLRs in both features and image quality. I was especially impressed with the video it took. The only negative I’ve seen is that when you zoom in at some point it switches over to ‘digital zoom’ and the quality drops dramatically. This can be turned off, so it’s really not a problem, just something to be aware of. My wife was looking for a small camera she could have with us when the DSLR was too big and this little guy more than fills the bill.

5 Stars For most people
This camera is not your average camera. I must confess I had Canon cameras ever since I started purchasing digital cameras. Therefore I might be bias by giving an opinion without testing the others out there. Although, I did at one point own a Casio Slim camera and was satisfied. However, the picture quality and the features that a Canon offers I must say beats the rest by far.

Good luck and happy snapping.

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User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Canon Camera
I just received the camera and have been playing with it on some photos. I am not a professional photographer so it is taking me a while to handle the camera. I like the way my photos have been coming out and used one photo for a Christmas Card. The reason I gave the display only 3 stars was simply that I don’t see the image before I shoot it and can’t get everyone into the photo on the picture. I am sure if I read through the book there is a solution to this, but I just haven’t done so yet.

I love this camera and can’t wait to see all that it is capable of in the future.

5 Stars Great camera, great value!
I almost bought a similar camera, but less megapizels, at a local store, but saw this one on Amazon at the last minute and ordered it instead. I’m sure I got the better deal by far. We’re still learning all the features of the camera, but it is lightweight and does almost everything!

5 Stars Great Intro SLR
I switched from a point-and-shoot to this SLR about a year and a half ago and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve gotten way into photography after buying this camera. I’ll typically keep it at home if going somewhere where it will easily get spilled on or dropped (ie. bars, etc.), but for more events and photo ops it’s wonderful. It does take a little getting used to it’s size if you’re moving from a point-and-shoot to an SLR for the first time, but it is well worth the switch! When I purchased the XSi, I was deciding between this one and a Nikon equivilant. After playing with both of them, I ended up going with the Canon – the buttons are placed better and the features you get for the value were better in my opinion. Can’t go wrong!

1 Star Bad Image Quality
For a long time I refrained from writing this review, believing that probably I was to blame for the subpar image quality (out of focus) pictures I was getting. But my conclusion is that it was not me. It was the camera.

I had such a great experience with the Canon S2IS that I was ready to move up to my first DSLR camera, and what better than the same brand. I enthusiastically ordered the Xsi with the supplied kit lens. I soon realized that no matter which focus setting I used, many pictures, both indoor and outdoor, were slightly out of focus, and slightly underexposed. I took side-by-side pictures together with my S2IS, and was shocked to see that the older, 5 MP camera took pictures much, much better than the Xsi.

I wrote to Canon customer service, and they blamed it on the “kit” lens. They suggested I buy a lens with a wider aperture (which was about $1,000, so I thought, “You’re kidding”). I did not buy the lens, but I did buy an external flash ($350), and the image quality was just the same. I was so disgusted with the situation that I basically stopped using the camera, and continued using the old one instead.

After some time, I really gave up on the camera and decided to return it, together with the flash. Fortunately, Amazon has fantastic customer sevice, and everything worked out without a problem.

In conclusion, my camera definitely had focus problems. These focus problems caused the pictures to be improperly exposed, and the flash strength to be slightly inexact, all contributing to bad image quality. For me, my Xsi’s 12 MP sensor and all its other features were worthless if the image quality was lower than that of my 5 MP camera. I am now hesitant to buy another Canon camera, afraid of a repeat of this.

One star for the camera, and five stars for Amazon’s customer service.

4 Stars Great pictures but disappointed in the live view mode
I use my camera for taking pictures of our one year old mostly. It is a great camera for small children because it can take a picture so fast you don’t miss out on a good smile. I am disappionted in the live view mode. It is very hard to use and you can not use it in the auto modes. They don’t tell you that up front. If you want to take pictures mostly with your LCD screen in live mode this is not the camera for you. If you enjoy using the view finder this is a great camera for the price.

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