Digital Home Thoughts: DigitalTrends Reviews Canon PowerShot SD1000

"The SD1000 is one of the newest editions of the ELPH series that celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. The film-based original broke the design mold with its classic “box and circle” styling. Now, the SD1000 Digital ELPH has returned to these retro roots on the outside, but inside, it’s obviously a completely different breed. This is a 7.1-megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom and is the replacement for the popular SD600. It is extremely compact and can be taken with you almost anywhere — which is terrific for spur-of-the-moment snapshots. It features Canon’s newest DIGIC III processor that not only makes this a very responsive digicam (up to 1.7 fps), but also enables Face Detection Auto Focus and Exposure (AF/AE). It operates like many other FD systems; it automatically searches for human faces and compensates for them so you end up with nice photos. At least, that’s the plan."



The critics really don't seem to love this camera. Not only does DigitalTrends give it a relatively low score but I have been reading similar reports on other sites as well. Is Canon falling into the same trap that Creative fell into with MP3 players? They seem to be putting out so many different P&S cameras with little separating each in features. I just don't see the point in increasing the numbers in the model number for no real reason. Either way, the particular pain points are that it has few manual controls; high digital noise at ISO 400 and above; and a slightly sluggish LCD.