Sunday, September 25, 2005
Review: Canon PowerShot SD550 Digital ELPH
Jeff Keller has reviewed this Canon PowerShot Digital Camera. This camera is an update to the popular SD500. There's one big change, plus a few smaller ones as well, he said.
The good stuff
- Excellent photo quality (though see issues below)
- Compact and very stylish metal body
- Large 2.5" LCD display (though see issues below)
- Blazing performance
- Powerful flash for a compact camera
- Very good movie and continuous shooting modes
- Unique My Colors feature
- LCD visible in low light (and it's about time)
- AF-assist lamp; good low light focusing
- USB 2.0 High Speed support
- Optional underwater case and external slave flash
The bad stuff
- Some corner softness; noisy images at high ISO settings
- Redeye is a problem
- LCD resolution on the low side
- Can only record about 8 minutes of VGA video due to 1GB file size limit
- Battery life could be better
- Can't swap memory cards while camera is on a tripod
- More manual controls would be nice
You can read the whole review over here.
The good stuff
- Excellent photo quality (though see issues below)
- Compact and very stylish metal body
- Large 2.5" LCD display (though see issues below)
- Blazing performance
- Powerful flash for a compact camera
- Very good movie and continuous shooting modes
- Unique My Colors feature
- LCD visible in low light (and it's about time)
- AF-assist lamp; good low light focusing
- USB 2.0 High Speed support
- Optional underwater case and external slave flash
The bad stuff
- Some corner softness; noisy images at high ISO settings
- Redeye is a problem
- LCD resolution on the low side
- Can only record about 8 minutes of VGA video due to 1GB file size limit
- Battery life could be better
- Can't swap memory cards while camera is on a tripod
- More manual controls would be nice
You can read the whole review over here.