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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:
 the Power of the PowerShot December 7, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is my fourth digital camera. I get get bored with things and have to have another one thats better, but I think this camera will be around for some time. It makes taking a great photo easy. I was driving and a car was passing me, so I pulled out my camera. I did not even look at the screen and took a picture. The car was at least 50 feet away going over 70mph. The photo came out great and I could even zoom in to see the license plate. The image stabilizer was great. I will be buying another one of these cameras as a gift for my family.
Worth the money. December 2, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've had other powershot cameras in the past so I knew I wanted to stick with Canon. I ordered this camera a few weeks ago because zoom and MP were better than my last powershot. I'm very happy with the quality of photos from this camera and the ability to change settings to take black and white and such is fun to play with. The lack of a viewfinder doesn't matter if you're used to looking through the screen as I am. Tho I tend to forget to raise the flash, but a reminder is displayed. :) This camera is definitely worth the money and the price is a good deal through Amazon.
 great camera November 24, 2007
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
pros
its a comparatively small camera with the features of larger camera. i like taking panoramic pictures but use it mainly on social events. the face recognition feature also lets you know that the camera is focus on what's important to you. the night feature is great too.
cons
a little (just a little) too bulky to fit in your pocket. otherwise, the features more than make up for the bulkiness. after taking a picture, it may take just a little for it to come back to be ready for the next picture. again the feature more than make up for the slight delay.
consider carrying a little camera pouch. get yourself a couple of 2G SDs and 2 extra AA rechargeable batteries and your set for a day of videos and stills.
i also recommend the silver. most carry only the black one. you may pay a little extra for the silver one but its worth it. it looks better. you can see the camera better specially in darker scenarios including the little labels on the camera. this may not seem important until you're there and have to hand off the camera to someone whose not so familiar with the camera.
Good camera - Good price..... November 22, 2007
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
This camera is a canon, so the picture quality is high as expected....Even auto mode produces photos of very high quality.
I haven't actually figured out the face detection yet, maybe i'm a little slow........but hopefully that works well......
The controls are easy to use and all functions are easy to find...
Only thing I don't like, is there is no histogram on the display screen while taking a picture.....it only shows up when you review a photo
I like the idea of the flip up flash....its good to not have to worry about the flash firing when not wanted......
I got the camera for $235.00.....it was definitely worth it....ordered if from amazon for $259, plus i had a $25 reward certificate from amazon, so put that towards the camera to......
you will need to buy a memory card and batteries, and i also suggest lcd proctors to put on the lcd screen....
I would recommend this camera to anyone looking for a quality digital camera with lots of manual controls....
It is a large camera compared to a lot of other digital cameras, so if small size is important..this camera isn't for you........
Great camera, price and features November 20, 2007
82 out of 83 found this review helpful
This is a great camera for the pro/am shooter that wants a little, but sturdy camera around. I normally shoot with a Canon Mark II, so I'm sometimes reluctant to shoot with smaller cameras, but this is a great deal for the price and features.
First off, understand that no point-and-shoot will ever match the quality of an SLR... but as far as point-and-shoots go this is one of the better ones.
The top feature so far to me is the image stabilization. Absolutely amazing. With decent support I can take shots at 1/8 shutter speed and still come out with a clear shot. It's so much better than sacrificing picture quality with a higher ISO.
Second plus is the price. At around $250 the SX100IS is as good as the Canon A640 and about $100 less. The A640 is 10mp, 4x zoom and has a flip screen, but the SX100IS has 10x zoom to trump it. 8mp is all you need in a camera like this. Don't get me wrong, the A640 is a great camera, but the SX100IS is the better deal.
Everything else is what I've come to expect from Canon and more. Much better manual controls -- the scroll wheel makes it simpler to change settings. A wide variety of ISOs from 80 to 1600. Good face recognition technology.
The SX100IS falls short in only one area... the flash.
Before I get to the negatives, the great thing about the flash is that it doesn't pop up automatically, and yes that's a good thing. I like this because it's simple -- flash down, it will not fire. Flash up, it will fire. No fumbling around for the flash button, no unexpected flash in the museum, etc. It's a very common-sense approach. Kudos to Canon for believing that their customers aren't complete idiots and that they don't need an automatic flash.
Where the flash disappoints is in performance. First, as usual, it over powers on most close up people shots, whiting out faces. This is at least correctable by dialing down the flash power in the function options.
Red-eye is another problem I always seem to have with Canon point-and-shoot flashes. I don't think the red-eye reduction feature works at all.
There also seems to be a little delay when using the flash. Not that this isn't the case with other point-and-shoots, but this one seems a little longer than normal.
Finally, the automatic color processing with the flash doesn't compensate enough for the flash. Pics look a little blueish. It's not too bad, but again I've seen better.
So this camera gets a 4 out of 5 because of the flash issues, but if you're mostly shooting without flash (and with that great image stabilization, you can shoot a lot more no-flash) then it'd be 5 out of 5.
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