Canon Sd1200Is – Great Point And Shoot Camera!
I got this camera because my son is nearly 2 and I’d noticed that my photo taking had dramatically dropped off. He’d be doing something adorable and I’d run to get the camera and by the time I got back he’d be five activities past whatever he’d been doing.
I needed a Dad camera – one that was small enough to carry with me all the time, started up fast, had good image stabilization and face detection, decent zoom and flash, was 100% automatic (no tweaking with portrait mode vs. sunny day mode vs. contrast settings while my son was peddling his tricycle for the first time), and was cheap enough that I wouldn’t mind dropping it occasionally.
The Cannon SD1200IS is that camera. It’s been a joy to use. I got the grey leather Cannon case to go with it and I now carry it everywhere. Looks a bit geeky (with the case it’s about the size of a blackberry) but I’ve caught tons spontaneous shots that would have vanished in the time it would take to get a larger camera. I agree with other posters – the battery and USB covers are a bit flakey – but the rest of the camera is solid. I’ve dropped it from waist height twice now with no issues.
A couple unexpected benefits:
1) My son now loves taking pictures himself (I hold the camera – he aims and pushes the button) – and the auto focus works well enough that some of his shots come out pretty well. It’s neat to see what’s important enough in his world to take a photo of (mostly toy trains and cars these days) and he’s very proud of his own pictures.
2) I didn’t know it when I purchased but the Canon SD1200IS has a built in accelerometer so Picasa now auto-rotates all my imported photos – 15 minutes of time magically recovered from each week!
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