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JustifiedUser is Offline

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01/15/2008 2:54 AM Alert 

So work had a extra incentive in December to push for a certain number of billable hours since it is a slow month with holidays and people taking vacation etc.   So besides the normal overtime they thru in a Canon SD1000 as well.    I was so excited since I have been really looking into getting this camera after I saw a friend.   Something about the ability to put this tiny thing in your pocket and have it ready whenever really appealed to me with never having time to bring out my olympus C3000 old but true 3.2MP camera everywhere we would go....just too much to get out and carry around and make sure the kids don't get into it....

So I go this 7.1MP canon SD1000...yes it is one of the Elph cameras.    I LOVE IT.   It even does video!!!    In fact I took a short clip, hehe..so funny they thought it wasn't a video camera too so I got my boys saying CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!....i'll upload it shortly...  

Just got it tonight so haven't had much experience with it but so far so good.  It has gotten great reviews on amazon.

*UPDATE*  Just uploaded a encoded version of the original first clip i took.   it was 30MB and now it is 2.18MB but still hopefully shows how amazing for a digital camera this takes videos.   If you want the original file to see the quality just email me and i'll put it up.

 *UPDATE #2* I just uploaded the first pic I took...literally just turned on the camera took 3 pictures without doing any settings and really didn't even know if the flash was on or not but walla here is one of the 3 pics i took...then right after i did that video clip. 

PHOTO


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01/15/2008 4:22 AM Alert 
Hehe, sweet camera. That one is a small one, uber tiny, littlest of the littles... I could go on!

And I've never heard "cheese" that long before! My little samsung takes video clips as well, and its great to pull it out and people dont know any better, mwhahaha!

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01/15/2008 10:43 AM Alert 

That's great quality video.  Heh...your youngest just wasn't having any part of that "cheese" moment. 

RoosterUser is Offline

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01/15/2008 1:22 PM Alert 

Wow - I have your twin - A Canon Powershot SD750 - Just looked ours up as I was curious about differences - Only thing I could see is one has a .5 in. bigger LCD. 

We love ours - Bought it in Dec., because when we were staying with my parents, they had an old Powershot (A320 I think it was) and had purchased a Nikon D70s (which lives at my house much of the time).  The Nikon is awesome - But at a huge pricetag that was just out of our budget.  But I'm really almost as thrilled with our PS camera.  The photo quality on that thing is just amazing for the size of the camera.  And the wife loves that unlike the Nikon which I tell her is just as easy as point and shoot, she's intimidated by the fact it "looks" like a traditional camera with all the photographic settings.  She loves the simplicity with the PS.

Plus, the Nikon, being a SLR camera, has no option to do any video, which the PS is completely capable of.  Important for those (like me) with no "current gen" camera..  My analog 8mm cam just doesn't cut the visual mustard anymore, heh.  PS video looks better than it!

Glad to hear ya got one of these, Justy..  Now the next thing I'll say is this - Photo redundancy.  Whereever you store your pics, store them elsewhere..  On other computers, hardcopies on sd/dvd, etc..  One dead drive can easily end you entire collection and leave you out of tons of visual memories.

Also - What size memcard did yours come with?  Wally World sells the 2GB sticks for like $20.  I mention this because while my house it (literally) full of CF cards, I had only ONE sd card (in my iPaq).  And my camera shipped with a 32Mb card, good for about 15 pictures.  The 2Gb gives me wanna say about 1.1k photos..  More importantly ALOT more video time.. :)

Get out there - snap away photos till your battery dies and charge it and take more.  You'll love it! :)

JustifiedUser is Offline

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01/15/2008 4:02 PM Alert 

It came with the 32MB as well but I bought a 1GB card from office depot for $32(I couldn't wait to find a good 'deal') hehe

Now I did get a card that is 60x read and 66x write, or vice versa.   this means 9MB/s  / 10MB/s  and is crucial when you want to record good smooth video on that camera.   I did read into that so make sure your SD card is at least this since I don't have any issues at all.   

And yes, it makes a huge difference if you don't have a card that can keep up speed.

Justy

tekelUser is Offline

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01/15/2008 5:04 PM Alert 
The high speed cards are really more important in the DSLR cameras for when you are taking a series of shots as fast as the shudder can operate.

JustifiedUser is Offline

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01/15/2008 6:08 PM Alert 

Yep, then you are up to 133x or whatever speed.

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