If you turn off the LCD an option since you have an optical viewfinder that jumps up to So if battery power is running low, turn off the LCD to extend shooting time. Playback is good for six hours, Canon claims. That far exceeds my requirements for a day's shooting.
There is an optional AC adapter available. I took the Canon SD on a few long walks. It slipped easily into my coat pocket and was ready in a flash to shoot.
If I'd had better control of the Power button, it would have been ready in half a flash. The doll shots, which you'll see in the Gallery section, were taken with the Canon SD's ISO 3, Scene mode, which bins the pixels into a small 1, x 1, pixel image. Wheel Covers. Chrome covers bleed into dark background [ pct. Except for the doll shots, the Canon SD's I used Superfine image quality minimal JPEG compression and the aspect ratio to get the largest size image, and that ranged from 3.
The full resolution images consequently load rather slowly. I found the Canon SD's color to be natural without the usual bumped-up saturation, although reds and blues are slightly oversaturated. You won't see much of that in the gallery shots, however, because they weren't taken in bright, sunny conditions.
A bleeding nose and some luminance noise in the foliage [ pct. I shifted focus modes a lot, moving from Normal to Macro and back again. I also set EV to different values, defining the Share button to be the EV button since it wasn't available on the control dial.
And, of course, I was constantly zooming to compose the image. The zoom control on the Canon SD is very smooth, not jumping from one step to another. That makes composing a pleasure, if a bit fast.
It doesn't respond to slight pressure by zooming slower like the SX IS, whose zoom steps from one focal length to the next. The Canon SD's zoom is either zooming or not zooming. Throughout my shooting experience, the Canon SD was a reliable and faithful companion. I liked what I saw on the LCD, although I wasn't thrilled that the scene was masked by settings icons until I half-pressed the Shutter button. I was surprised to see how much lens flare intruded.
You might expect a little fringing in the corners at wide angle, but how do you explain the wheel covers on the red car? I was also disappointed to see fringing on the edges of the orange rose, although I appreciated how the Detail reveals a crane fly on the ornate window [ pct. Perhaps the best shot was the ornate window. The Canon SD not only held the highlights very well but the detail from the That's pretty remarkable. And yet, the image of the bolt in the brick, one of my favorite compositions in the gallery, falls apart when viewed at full resolution.
At full resolution, it simply doesn't look as sharp as the thumbnails promise it to be. And that was the rule rather than the exception. See the sculpture of the big cat on stone in the park. There's blooming from the cat's snout and the speckling of luminance noise in the metal and the stone and the foliage is disturbing.
While there were certainly some of the same problems in those images, I preferred them. Much of this let's call them technical defects disappear when you print the images.
And just resizing them down a bit helps enormously, too. In fact, the doll images at ISO 3, don't show any evidence of these optical defects because the Canon SD resizes them to 1, x 1, pixels. And while these defects are real, the problem is actually with viewing high resolution images more than with the Canon SD Examining megapixel images and larger on your screen, as we noted in our Dogpatch story , "you have your nose to the glass at the candy store and are fogging the window.
To properly evaluate megapixel images and larger on your screen, they suggested, you should view them at 50 percent rather than percent. So in our cat snout shot above, we simulated a 50 percent view.
That helps a lot of the noise in the foliage, and the blue flare glow above the statue's nose is less noticeable. Sharpness : At wide-angle, the Canon SD IS' zoom becomes quite blurry in the corners compared to center, with the strongest blurring in the upper left.
At full telephoto, however, details in the corners are only slightly softer than center. Geometric Distortion : Barrel distortion at wide-angle is moderate, but about average 0.
Chromatic Aberration : Chromatic aberration at wide-angle is a bit high, with bright green and magenta pixels visible though strong blurring in the corners is also stretching the effect here. Telephoto, however, exhibits much lower chromatic aberration, with a few red pixels visible in the areas of black. Macro : In its Macro mode, the Canon PowerShot SD IS produced slightly soft details throughout most of the frame, with blurring becoming stronger in the corners and along the edges.
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