Canon PowerShot SD850 IS 8.0 MP Digital Elph Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (OLD MODEL)

okay i'm not too sure about these yahoo's and there professional reviews in camparing to a DSLR!!! what!!!???? dude, it'a freakin point and shoot camera! just pic it up and take a dang picture! you want a DSLR CAMERA!? get one! and the camera is only as good as the photographer!! ooohh snap! hows that you lamos!. i'm a canon guy all the way! and this is one of the best cameras i ever had!. i even still use it today. for many of my journeys and pick up and go places. i'm seen plenty and tried plenty of the canon small point and shoot camers. my first owned was the sd600!! that baby was a beuty! pictures came out great micro worked great!. soo good i bought a second one cuz i lost the first one.-the SD850SI is deffinately a step up in it's time with the 8 megapixals. but all the freakin features too! red eye correction, face detection, THE DIGICIII processor. the many automatic presettings. and the best thing i love about it is the MACRO SETTING!! theres to ways to use it, theres the little dial on the navigator control to select between macro and infinite setting BUT!! the in my opinion the best is to go into MANUAL MODE and select macro from there. it might not seem like a difference, BELEIVE ME! OH THERES A DIFFERENCE. another great feature of the 850, similar to the 600. (and this is very convenient) is that it quick and easy to review your pictures from an OFF setting. you can select the PICTURE REVIEW ICON and go stright to the pictures with out having the lens pop out than selecting review. that saves battery life too!!! MY NEWER CANON S95 DOESNT HAVE THAT FEATURE!! I HATE HOW THE LENS OPENS IF YOU JUST WANT TO REVIEW PICTURES!. CANON THOUGHT ABOUT THE customers on the 600 and 850.-also the VIDEO is GREAT!! 30fps! that's a good deal! shoots good footage! (if your good enough, HA) and with the video you can shoot in many settings of WHITE-BALANCE like in still pictures, change the speed and quality of the shooting. it has fast moving mode! which is awesome(but beware the quality does reduce on that one). COLOR ACCENT!!! COLOR SWAP! YEAH! now this isnt 1080P to mind you! if you want to shoot professional! GO BY A CAMCORDER!!! GEEZ people these dayz.-okay also just to let you know how great this camera was! and still great to this day! it's aug, 2011 right now and this baby still has it! so good, i purchased 4 of these. well one i broke when it fell. another i lost. and i just bought two to back me up. i didnt like the other sd's, 800 870, 1000 1200 1400. yeah. didnt serve my needs.-OH YES AND ANOTHER GREAT FEATURE WHICH I DISCOVERED A WHILE BACK, IS THAT THIS CAMERA IS COMPATIBLE WITH HD CARD (high defintion), HC CARD(high capacity cards), XS CARDS (extra capacity cards or whatever). top quality memory cards!! HOWS THAT!!! BAM!the only flaw i have with this camera is, well i grew up in arizona, and i'm sorry to say this camera isnt SANDPROOF, i got a little sand in the lens zooming lens area. BUT NOOTHING IS SANDPROOF! not even camping tents!! WELL ENJOY HAHA!-well to upgrade into todays society i bought the CANON S95- BECAUSE IT HAS A 2.0F-4.7F LENS. GREAT FOR INDOORS, BUT OVER THAT STILL USE MY SD850 FOR MANY THINGS!!CANON SD850IS CAMERA IS AWESOME!

This is my second Canon Powershot SD850. For two years I loved my little camera...great features, easy portability, good pix, power button only TInkerbell could push. Then it was stolen on New Year's Day. So I bought another from Amazon Marketplace...previously owned but not used. Just past the 60 day return I started getting "Lens Error, Restart Camera". A quick in and out of the battery seemed to get it going again. This week it wouldn't come out of the Lens Error. When I went on line to see if anyone else had this problem, I was surprised to see the volume of Lens Errors out there for the SD850 and lots of other Canons, too. One site had 7 suggestions to fix it. One worked temporarily and now none of them works. THe good news is Canon's repair costs about the same as a new camera. About the same time all of this happened, I received notice about my new Toyota Matrix recall. I know there isn't Recalls for Cameras, but I wish that there was or at least I wish the on-line reviews from the Webzines included information about this lemon feature along with all the raves about the other features. Dont' cry for me, but two lemons in one year is enough lemonade.Canon PowerShot SD850 IS 8.0 MP Digital Elph Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

With over 300 reviews for this product, I am not going to rehash on what over 300 had said. I bought this camera for my wife who's previous camera died. To put it mildly, her cousin accidently hit it with her elbow and knocked it onto the concrete pavement. Both the camera and the memory card died. That was a HP 735 (2.3 Megapixels). I priced around and as always, I check Amazon. (Sadly they charge tax now because the New York State legislature wanted their hands in the cookie jar (honeypot) and earn some revenue on the very popular Amazon.com.This camera is amazing. It takes quick pictures, and the preview shows how great the pictures can be. The colors are rich and the face detection is right on. I found it funny that the camera was detecting the faces on the T.V. when we took it out of the box and was trying to learn about its many features. Another good plus for this camera is that it eliminates red eye. My wife loves to take pictures and she sighs when she develops her pictures and everyone on the pictures look like red-eyed vampires. Thats a thing of the past with this camera. The camera is a fast loader so be ready when you turn on the camera. It is very quiet and I was looking for the noise that many reviewers had written about. When we took pictures, it was quiet as though it had a silencer. Also many people had stated that it takes a long time for it to snap a shot. To us, it was quick and the shots were amazing. The options on the side of the camera (the dial- previewing pictures for example) and the power button as many people felt was a nuissance didn't bother us. Both are in good spots and our fingers never hit them accidentaly. The life of the battery was certainly longer than we thought. We had it on for a few hours and it was still running. Our former digital camera was a nightmare. After an hour it was already down to one bar. We didn't mind that the power meter wasn't present on the very sleek and sexy 2.5 LCD screen. I guess we were scared to look lol. Too many, i would think that the most important information on the viewscreen would be how many pictures you can take and their quality as well as the preview od the picture.My wife is not a profesional photgrapher but she loves taking pictures. It ranges from sunsets to weddings. The pictures are outstanding and her family are amazed at how great the pictures look and come out. To us, there are no "cons" for this camera. We are delighted and anyone who likes taking pictures and is in need of a new camera, this is a fantastic one.Amazon was terrific also. Right after I placed the order for this camera, the price went down and Amazon gave me a refund on the price difference. I also ordered it right before July 4th, so I did 2-day shipping (Ordered it on July 1st). To my amazement it actually arrived the next day. What other place can you order a product, click 2-day shipping, pay for 2-day shipping, and you end up getting it the next day. Not bad for overnight shipping and next day delivery. I was so shocked, we weren't even home when it arrived 9the first attempt). Even though Amazon has to charge tax in NYS, there prices are low, very helpful, and you get your merchandise much earlier than it says.