Digital Home Thoughts: C|Net Review Canon PowerShot SD900

"The 10-megapixel Canon PowerShot SD900 manages to be stylish without being inconvenient or awkward. Its sturdy metal body, an attractive matte-gray with black accents, is smooth and slightly curvy, and at 6.7 ounces and 1.1 inches thick, it's just the right size to fit into a jacket pocket. All the controls are on the camera's right side, so nearly every button is within thumb's reach for comfortable one-handed use. A 2.5-inch LCD screen takes up most of the camera's remaining back panel but leaves enough room for an optical viewfinder. The viewfinder is small and awkward, but it provides a welcome alternative to the LCD. While the SD900 is heavy on style, like most of the SD series, it's pretty light on features. You can adjust the white balance, the exposure compensation, the ISO sensitivity, and the metering settings, but in true point-and-shoot fashion, most shooting happens with the camera in automatic mode or through its handful of scene presets. It offers 30fps VGA movie capture or XGA (1,024x768) movies at 15fps. "



Wow, Canon is popping this Powershots out pretty quickly now. The newest wave of point-and-shoots includes the SD900 which is small and comfortable, has responsive performance and gives decent images. The only things to be weary of are that there are few manual controls and that there is some noticeable fringing in the images. And while it does fall short against some of its full featured competitors, it does offer 10MP in a small form factor.