Customer Reviews:
  Good Camera February 23, 2008
I think this camera is very fast at shooting, good battery, so so picture quality, good video quality, so overall its a very good camera. The price of $[...] is the worst deal i have ever heard;i bought the camera brand new in radio shack when it first came out for Two hundred dollars ($[...]!)!! The only thing is you might want to buy a higher zoom camera, like the Samsung NV7, which on Amazon is about $[...]. Overall, the price of $[...] was just ok, but the zoom is mediocre, pictures are so so when enlarged, otherwise its a very tough, metal bodied camera with one of the beat batteries on a camera i have ever seen in a point and shoot when fully charged. For more camera reviews, go to: www.cnet.com/reviews. I currently have owned this camera for almost a year. The main reason i have it is for videos, which are 30 fps. I am now going to buy the Samsung NV7, which has 7x Opt. zoom, 2x digital, 7.2 Mega pixels, and is very sleek and stylish. Overall, i would suggest this camera if zoom is not a large concern, and you are looking for strength and sturdiness.
 Grainy photos, lens jam after one year February 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely adored my SD600 Elph. The video quality was amazing. Yet I had troubles as well taking photos indoors and in low light, and when I could, they often came out grainy. This is completely contrary to all of the reviews I read. I did hours and hours of research before buying this camera (Thanks a lot, C-Net).
Now, 13 months after I bought it, I find myself just arrived in Peru, and here for the next three months, with no camera, because the lens is jammed and the camera won't even turn on now. So, I either have to buy some weird brand of camera here in Peru for three times the price, or not have any photos of Peru at all. Actually, I can't even buy a camera, since I don't have the money for it, so I guess the photos will only be those in my memory.
My advice... buy something more durable.
for the fashionable, if the quality was as good as sony's January 25, 2008
This is one of the last good cameras that Canon made before it decided to move onto plastic bodies and a more rounded shape such as their SD750, SD630. The SD1000 is the SD600 successor but is boxier with respect to the 600. I like the 600 because it has a sturdy body and is compact. I bought the leather case that goes with the camera and the case fits like a glove on the camera protecting it in case I drop it. The screen is a decent size and this camera is one of the few I liked which still had an optical viewfinder instead of just the LCD showing what I was going to take a picture of.
Picture quality is 4/5. I had a Sony 5MP camera before I bought this Canon one and the Sony one just had a crisp clearer picture. Canon has decent image quality nonetheless and accepts SD which is less proprietary than Sony's Memory Stick and less expensive of course. Canon also is known for the different modes in which pictures can be shot, with color especially. It's nifty if you want to play with the functions (because it has so many) and if you're hanging out with your friends and want fun pictures. Indoor shots are decent and the pictures don't tend to be blurry even when taken with an unsteady hand.
With a 2GB memory card, you can snap around 1100 pictures in 6MP format. Also the multiple snapshot function works well when you're taking candid pictures of people and at parties. You can always delete the ones you don't like later when you transfer them to the computer via a card reader or USB. Video recording is a bit on the rough side when it comes to recording a show because the image will blur in and out.
One of the bad things about the camera/video/play switch is that sometimes you mean to take a picture and you end up recording a movie which is kind of cumbersome because you miss a really great picture moment.
It's not the slimmest camera out there like the Sony T7 but it can definitely compete in the other departments like different modes and a more widely accepted memory format. If you're looking for a fashionable camera and it has to be compact as well, I would definitely recommend this camera among the others.
Battery life is 5/5. (Lithium ion battery is much better than the rechargeable AAA batteries.)
Image quality 4/5
Functionality 4/5 (buttons are a bit squished)
Cost-Benefit 5/5
Excellent January 16, 2008
This Canon takes great pictures. It's quick to turn on and quick to take pictures. The IS helps to reduce blurry pictures and the size is small enough to fit in my pocket. I also like the patch feature. It allows you to take a few pictures and patch them into one. The software is good and has a feature that will allow you to rename all your pictures. I had a Sony before and can definitely tell the difference.
Red-Eye December 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
About this camera, I will write 2 words, 3 times--
Red Eye, Red Eye, Red Eye
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