Canon PowerShot SD630 6MP Digital Elph Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
- 6.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 14 x 19-inch prints
- 3x optical zoom; 3.0-inch LCD display
- ISO 800 shooting; widescreen (16:9) stills recording
- Fast Frame Rate Movie Mode for shooting high-quality movies at up to 60 frames per second QVGA (320 x 240)
- Powered by a lithium-ion battery (battery and charger included); stores images on SD cards (16 MB memory card included)
The Canon PowerShot SD630 Digital Elph, has a sleek, ergonomic design that will turn heads. It is packed with a full array of Canon’s most popular and convenient shooting features. With 6.0 megapixels of resolution and a high quality Canon 3x Optical Zoom Lens you’ll be assured stunning images, every time. The camera is also equipped with an amazingly large, eye-opening 3.0 inch LCD screen, an extensive range of shooting modes with Custom Color features, a fast USB 2.0 interface for quick downloads, and much more.
6.0 megapixels of resolution ensures the kind of detail that makes ordinary images extraordinary, and gives you the freedom to crop images and produce large prints that are true-to-life and filled with rich detail. Sleek Compact Design; High-quality Canon 3x Optical Zoom Lens; Large 3.0″ LCD Screen; Reduced Image Blur and Improved Low-light Shooting with ISO 800; DIGIC II Image Processor with iSAPS Technology; Shoot and View Widescreen Images; Record VGA or Fast Frame Rate M
List Price: $ 299.99
Price: $ 299.99
Sony Cybershot DSCW150/R 8.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot (Red)
- 8.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
- Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens; Smart Zoom feature
- 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD display
- Face Detection; Smile Shutter mode
- 15 MB internal memory; capture images to Memory Stick Duo/Pro Duo media
Take stunning shots in a variety of conditions. The Sony DSC-W150 Cyber-shot(R) 8.1-Megapixel Digital Camera features an Intelligent Scene mode, which automatically selects the right settings for your environment. Smile Shutter technology lets you instantly capture smiles the moment they happen. A Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens and Sony’s Double Anti-Blur solution provide crisp, clear images. Because an off-center subject can make your shot more interesting, a 9-point auto-focus measures the focus at 9 precision points instead of 5 for a greater creative freedom to compose your image. A large, bright 2.7″ Clear Photo LCD display includes an anti-reflective coating that provides for excellent visibility to help you compose, view, and share photos with superb clarity and color reproduction, even in bright sunlight. Face Detection technology automatically controls focus, exposure, color, and flash to help reveal faces in shadows, make skin tones look more natural, reduce red-eye, and eli
List Price: $ 259.99
Price: $ 259.99
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Great Camera Jam Packed with Features,
I purchased this camera as soon as it was made available April 28, 2008.
I think this camera is perfect. It takes great pictures all on its own. There is no need for you to know about the aperture, focal length, lighting, ISO settings, etc. Simply put the camera in easy or auto mode and shoot to your heart’s content. The picture colors are amazingly accurate and vibrant.
The smile shutter feature is pretty cool also. Simply put the camera in smile mode push down the shutter once and wait for your subject to smile. You’ll be able to take six smile shots without having to press the shutter button.
Another cool feature is the in camera editing. Say a subject did not smile as big as you had hoped, you are able to go into the editing feature in the camera and make the smile more evident. To me, that’s cool! You are also able to remove redeye, sharpen the picture and crop the picture all by using the camera. You no longer have to upload them to the computer to do these fixes.
The battery life is very good and you don’t even need a memory stick to shoot up to 10 pictures because of the installed 15 MB of memory. It’s not a whole lot, but it helps if you are in a pinch for a shot and a memory card is not handy.
The screen is very clear and very large. The colors are accurate and very bright. The camera is lightweight yet not flimsy. It feels like a solidly built camera.
I really haven’t seen anything to complain about. I think everything this camera offers for the price is well worth it. I am very happy with the black color as well. I think Black goes with everything and that’s why I didn’t choose a different color.
If you are on the fence about this camera, I can just say that my experience has been very positive and I think yours will be as well.
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|Reasonable camera if you can live with its limitations,
Let me start with stating that most point and shoot cameras are compromise on various basic performance parameters. I bought this camera for my wife for whom any feature beyond the basic auto mode is unnecessary. For a point and shoot it has lots of very advanced features typically available in dslr or prosumer cameras. I am talking about things like bracketing( takes pictures at different exposure level), dynamic range optimizer and my favorite live histogram. Let me summarize its positives and negatives:
– Wide angle lens 30mm to 150mm (5x zoom)
– Image stabilizer is very good, I have taken very good pictures at 1/4sec & iso 100. Basically it will let you take good pictures at low iso(to avoid noise), where you can not use flash.
-DRO (dynamic range optimizer): Autmatically adjusts for a balance between highlight & shadows, two different levels of DRO available
– Live histogram: I have this feature in my nikon 8400 (prosumer camera)and is very useful for adjusting exposure in extreme lighting conditions e.g. daylight scenery in Yosemite, Bryce. Metering systems of most cameras can not keep up with such extreme lighting conditions.
– Three levels for flash. Soft flash for closeups, standard, flash+ for far away objects.
– Colors: It has very bright and saturated colors even in basic color mode. If you are mainly going to use it take pictures of kids, you may like prints from it. I am used to subdued colors of Nikon.
Now the negatives, some of which could be a problem for someone.
– In auto mode, it pushes up the iso to 400 therefore producing grainy pictures.
– Flash is underpowered, stated range is 4.3m. I would stick to half that distance for decent pictures.
– You can restrict the iso to below 200 to keep noise low. I have found that even at iso of 100 the detail in pictures is not that good. My theory is that it has a very strong noise reduction algorithm at all iso’s. If you are mainly going to take 4×6 pictures this might not be an issue for you.
I hope this review is useful in your decision making.
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|One Awesome Camera,
This Canon SD630 camera replaced my “garbage” Sony that suddenly stopped working. I love this camera!
PROS:
1. HUGE 3″ LCD screen (the main reason I bought this camera).
2. Excellent picture quality.
3. Tons of pre-set settings including “fireworks” (which takes perfect photo’s of fireworks).
4. Lots of manual settings if you prefer, including high ISO, white balance, etc.
5. Takes top quality videos (at up to 30 frames/sec at 640X480 – similar quality as that of full-featured video cameras).
6. You can upload any WAV and JPG files to personalize all the camera’s settings (the sound and picture that shows when you turn on your camera, the sound the shutter makes, the sound of the buttons when navigating settings, etc.).
7. When reviewing your pictures, the built-in “gyro” will flip the orientation of your photo when you tilt the camera going from “portrait mode” to “landscape mode” and vice-versa.
8. The “colour swap” feature will have designers and decorators drooling. You take a picture of say, a house, then aim the pin-point in the middle of the LCD screen at a colour on the house that you want to change and press the shutter button, then aim the camera on the colour you want to change it to and press the shutter button, then voila!, the original picture of the house now appears with the new colour you had just personally selected!
9. It takes only about 15 minutes to fully charge the battery (NB-4L, Li-ion) in the included external battery charger.
10. The “auto create directory” feature is great. You can set the camera to create a new directory every day (or at a certain time) so when returning from your holiday, all your pictures are filed in folders according to the date you took them.
11. The “photo stitch” feature is awesome. Select this feature then snap a picture, rotate yourself a few degrees, take another picture, rotate, etc. The PC software will take all these shots and combine them into one panoramic picture.
CONS:
1. There isn’t a visual battery-life meter; it only appears when the battery is almost dead, so it’s hard to tell how much battery life you have left until it’s too late. I bought a second battery that I carry with my camera just in case.
2. Flimsy cover on the USB and AV/OUT terminals.
3. When you connect the camera to your PC, the camera isn’t recognized as a “removable device” (which is preferred with digital cameras), so you can’t just copy pictures back and forth in Windows Explorer. The camera requires it’s own software to download your pictures.
4. The built-in speaker is located on the top of the camera (it isn’t facing you), so it’s difficult to hear videos when you’re playing them back on the LCD screen.
The “PROS” far outweigh the “CONS” with this camera. I couldn’t be happier with my purchase. Prepare to meet new people when you’re out using this camera – people are amazed at the size of the LCD screen.
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|Excellent Product – Picked Out After Much Research…,
I just received my Canon SD-630 in the mail today and can already say I am very happy with my purchase. I had been researching cameras the entire week, looking for the right one for my needs.
When I went to the store, Best Buy, I had written down a few camera model numbers that caught my eye. Over the next few days it was interesting to see how my perceptions of these cameras had changed. I had at first liked the 7.1 Megapixel Sony I had put at the top of my list at Best Buy. I based this on merely the camera having a high megapixel count and the looks of the outer casing. But after getting on Amazon and reading product descriptions, going over reviews, and looking at shots submitted by customers all of my original perceptions changed.
While the Sony may have looked good and had a higher megapixel count than my Canon, it was the features that attracted me to the SD-630. I liked that it had some interesting options to play around with besides just the usual camera settings like outdoor, indoor, etc… Besides the basics, the Canon has options like Color Accent and Color Swap. These features really let you produce some unique prints without having to do any post manipulation with programs such as Photoshop. I myself had done similar work with photos using Photoshop, to make certain objects color while the rest of the image remained black and white. But this takes time depending on the object and its nice to be able to achieve the same results without any work! Its also very easy to use and I took some great shots in no time.
Another camera I was interested in was the Kodak V570. After reading the feature list on this camera, such as the Panorama Stitch and Wide Angle Lens I thought it was perfect. Plus the pictures I viewed looked very cool when incorporating these modes. But some of the reviews on the camera turned me away somewhat. Such as having to use the supplied dock as well as Kodak software just to upload the images to my computer or charge the battery. I like the flexibility of the Canon, allowing you to transfer images via USB cable or memory card without having to use any other software. The battery charger is also very compact, no cords or large battery trays, just a simple charger that has a folding plug for easy transport (the charger is the size of a small cell phone – probably smaller).
Yet I still liked the Panorama Stitch option that the Kodak offered and was really considering this camera as my final pick. So I decided to go back to the store and look at these cameras again now that I had done the research and knew what I was looking for. It was a whole different experience than my first visit to Best Buy. When I played with the Kodak it just didn’t live up to what I had hoped for. I was put off by the button layout and the overall feel of the camera when compared to the Canon. After finally figuring out how to do the Panorama Stitch, while it was a cool little feature, it just wasn’t all that great on the camera. The screen is small and when your grouping so many different images together, 3, its hard to really see what you are doing and to get a shot exactly as you want. I’m sure after some use I would get use to it, but to get the full effect you would have to upload the image to a computer and look at it from there to see if it came out the way you intended. The camera just seemed simple in terms of functionality.
The Canon, which I had tested out before this camera, was a whole different story. I really liked how everything was laid out and the big screen made looking at images so much easier. Thus when you used an option such as Color Accent, you could really get a sense of how the final product turned out and decide if you were happy with the shot (or needed to do a retake) without having to view the image on a computer. It has so many different options to play with that are very useful in the simplest terms; such as Vivid Colors. I took a few pictures of the same objects using this mode and some in just Auto. You can really see a nice subtle difference and in some cases the colors just pop when compared to normal. It is very nice to use and is a great compliment to the camera. Simple features such as this are excellent and let you take great pictures without having to adjust manual settings. But if you would like to tinker with manual options, the camera leaves plenty of room to do this as well (which was another feature I was looking for, as I wanted to get more involved with the camera over time).
The video on this camera is also excellent. I remember taking videos on older digital cameras I have used and they were pretty low quality. I do a lot of video editing and such, and found the video option on this camera to be very nice. It really lets you take some quality footage, that if you showed a clip to someone off of your computer they would think it was taken with a camcorder. Another nice thing…
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|The Best Digital Camera,
I have had tons of digital cameras before and I have always sold them on eBay to get rid of them. Canon is by far the best digital camera I have ever owned. I previously had an SD10 for the last 3 years and am still happy with it. 3 yrs is a long time for me considering I am a bit of a techie that likes to change all of my electronics whenever a new one comes out. So for me the SD630 is finally a well deserved upgrade…
LOVE IT. The LCD screen is amazing and there are tons of new features that I did not have on my SD10. Everything with this camera is terrific. The only thing and only thing I can say is that there is not a battery meter, the meter only shows up when it is already running out of battery. This was the same for the SD10 and it was quite annoying. Anyways, definately buy a backup battery just in case.
Other than that, you cannot go wrong with this camera…
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