Canon Sd1200Is – A Fantastic Camera
This is one great little camera. I carry a small sub compact camera with me everywhere I go and I needed an up-grade from my 6 year old fixed focus Argus. Before I purchased this Cannon SD1200 Elph I read all the reviews I could find and I just can’t believe some of the negative reviews. Either these people got a LEMON (which I doubt) or they just don’t know how to operate a really good camera. The one very special thing that I love is the “Date Stamp” feature. It makes it so great to be able to see on your photos when and what time the picture was taken.
The compactness of this camera is just perfect. No protrusions to snag as you retrieve it from your pocket or case. I use a very inexpensive fabric belt case with a velcro flap. If only the owner would take a little time to read the manual or even take a camera class they would find that they could take excellent pictures. I take most of my pictures without the flash since flash has a tendency to wash out a lot of color. Most indoor shots can be taken quite successfully by setting the camera to the “SCN” mode and turning off the flash. The “auto” mode is great too but just remember that it will automatically select the flash if its too dark and then if you are too far away from you subject the shot will turn out dark. The flash is only good for short distances. I would not go farther than 6 feet.
This is one “solid” little camera. Built like a fine piece of equipment.
Just learn how to operate all the great features it has and you will be very, very happy with this camera
P.S. I purchased this camera from AMAZON. I am very pleased with the price and service they provide.
Canon SD1200IS – Thankful
I need to carry a camera at times for work. With a cell phone, wallet, keys, pens, etc. I don’t want a big camera. I tried using different cameras, and even cell phone cameras, but they wouldn’t take great photos in all situations unless they were bulky. This one does–at least great for my needs. Sure, in a pitch black cave it won’t do well for distance photos, but nothing else does either, until you bring in floodlights.
I’ve used many of these small camera; I think this is the 5th Canon, among others. I have always been happy with the Canon. The Sony required a strange cord to download–not the ubiquitous mini-USB card this one uses. Everybody seems to have this cord, so I can leave photos anywhere I run into a computer.
I’ve been real impressed with the shutter speed. All my photos are based on automatic settings, but it surprises me how often there is enough light–how rarely the flash is used. This takes great pictures in darker settings without using the flash–it’s far different from the past cameras I’ve used.
Sometimes I need close ups in a dark location of small parts. This provides great photos in that situation. It fits easily in my jeans pockets or shirt pocket. I forget it’s there over half of the time I carry it and it ends up in my pocket until the day is over.
I like the rechargeable battery too. First, it can take a lot of pictures. The camera this replaced was battery powered and wouldn’t take 30% of the photos before the batteries were dying. Sure it had 9x optical, but that isn’t important to me. Thus you had to carry extra batteries for it, in addition to an over sized camera.
I’m thankful this was available. And it was nice that Amazon included the free 4 GB card.
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Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS 10-Megapixel ELPH Digital Camera
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