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| Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $249.99
Buy Used: $175.00
You Save: $74.99 (30%)
New (15) Used (10) Refurbished (4) from $175.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  227 reviews
Sales Rank: 4853
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 10
Display Size: 2.5
Battery: 2 AA
Maximum Focal Length: 60
Minimum Focal Length: 6
Maximum Resolution: 10
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 2.8 x 1.6
MPN: SX100IS
Model: SX100IS
UPC: 013803087758
EAN: 0013803087758
ASIN: B000V1VG4W
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Canon Powershot June 24, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
seems easy to use, very fast delivery,haven't used yet,just trying it out around home.
 Disappointed in the the Canon SX100S camera June 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the lcd screen to be extremely difficult to use on a clear sunny day. I could not locate what I wanted to focus on, especially when the subject was moving. On a cloudy day, or if I were able to physically get into the shade, I had much better viewing. Having just returned from a trip to Alaska, and a cruise up the length of Glacier Bay National Park, to the Canadian Border (British Columbia), I was furious when I couldn't photograph whales, bears, sea otters, etc. as well as my daughter with her Fuji. Not being able to see and adjust the settings made for lots of rotten shots. I think you get the point that I do not like this camera very much.
Good value for money June 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have searched for Olympus (I had an Olympus before)and Canon and after looking through different reviews, I have chosen the Powershot SX100IS. The reason is that this camera has full automatic functionality, plus many manual settings. As I like to play with shutter time etc. to make beautiful pictures at night using a stand I feel that this is one of the best smaller camera's that can do the tircks I want. It's small (smaller then the Olympus I got) with many options. The first battery pack ran down very quickly and I am now testing Alkaline batteries and will buy a set of type 2300 rechargable batteries to test. Still have to perform a lot more tests and settings, but firt impression is very, very good!!!
 One major negative feature, otherwise okay. June 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not sure of why Canon introduced the SX100 IS. Its most distinctive feature is a 10x zoom of the usual Canon quality. It appears intended to compete with the Panasonic Lumix TZ series. Compared to the TZ, it is larger and heavier, but it does have a pop-up flash which can offer slightly better modeling and, more important, for many photographers, a manual exposure mode. Canon apparently intended the SX100 to fill what they perceive as the "gap" between the venerable (and excellent) A series and the DSLR lookalike, but not function alike, Powershot S5, which is also excellent.
The SX100 has, in my opinion, one major design flaw. Instead of the more typical 4-way touch mechanism for function selection, the SX100 has a rotating wheel. This is, again in my opinion, a massive error since the wheel is very difficult to rotate accurately: fingers tend to slip off and either set a function prematurely or hit another button bringing up an unwanted function or, worst of all, both. Perhaps people with very small fingers and an acute sense of touch can reliably use this wheel. I cannot and see it as a major negative in the design of the SX100.
Other than that flaw - which I think of as a showstopper for many people - the camera is typical Canon, which means very good value for the money. The 8 Megapixel images are crisp. As always, except for very expensive DSLRs, noise becomes a problem at higher ISO values, in this case starting at about ISO 200. If the choice is between having no picture at all and a noisy picture, the decision is obvious.
The SX100 has face detection and it seems to work. The 2.5" LCD viewfinder is okay. There are a few specialized scene selectors, such as beach scene and portraits.
In video mode, you can capture 640 x 480 video at 30fps. Audio quality is passable. But you cannot zoom while doing video. Up to one hour of video can be recorded.
The zoom range is 36 - 360mm. I wish all the manufacturers would lop off the top end and make the wide angle wider.
Shot to shot recyling times are a bit on the slow side, but not unusual for this class of camera. Flash recyling time is just plain awful and much slower than other similar cameras.
The camera runs on two AA batteries, which I consider a plus since such batteries are available everywhere in the world. But make sure you carry extras because this camera eats batteries. Rechargeables are a must with this camera.
Overall, this is a general purpose camera with no truly outstanding features. While image quality is high - and the primary reason for the 4-star rating - the rest of the camera is kind of ho-hum. You might want to carefully consider this camera in comparison to its competitors.
Jerry
 Becareful of lens error June 21, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
We bought this camera for our teenage son for Christmas and it stopped working in early February. My son took care of the camera - kept it in a camera bag as well. He was protective with it because it was his first good digital camera. Unfortunately when you turn on the camera now you automatically get a lens error and you can't use it at all. We have tried Canon's suggestions to fix it, but nothing has worked. I guess we are going to have to send it to Canon and I will be upset if we have to pay to repair it. In fact I will never buy Canon again. I have heard by many that Kodak is very reliable, but my experiences with digital have really left me unsure. My husband and I have only bought two - one was a Nikon and it quit working after about six months - it just stopped turning on - we tried changing batteries and all. We have had no luck with digital! We have a Nikon N80 SLR (film camera) and that has been the most reliable camera we have had.
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