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What would you do with a camera that failed to live up to your expectations? Try returning it? Sell it on Ebay? Drop if off the Golden Gate Bridge? How about, get the facts you need to make the right buying decision in the first place. Sounds good to me. The Canon PowerShot SD800IS Digital Elph is one of the best selling point and shoot cameras available. But, is it the right camera for you? I'm going to skip all the strong selling features of the SD8000IS Elph, and go straight to what I think are the problems . . . and let you decide.
Firstly, lets start with face recognition focusing. The SD800IS as well as a number of Canons are supposed to recognize peoples faces, and focus on the faces for the best picture. It's a great idea in theory, but not so good in practice with this PowerShot. When using the face recognition mode, items around, behind, and near the faces in the photographs are in focus, but quite often the face is not. Face recognition is an idea whose time has come, but Canon needs to do a little more work to get it right.
Chromatic aberration has been a problem in a number of the Canon point and shoots, including the predecessor to the SD800IS, the SD700. Canon obviously doesn't see it as a problem, since it's still visible in the SD800IS. Sometimes called "color fringing", chromatic aberration is a cameras inability to focus two or more different colors on the same focal plane. Mostly, it shows up on wide angle photographs, and can look like a fringe of color around an object that shouldn't be there.
Of course being popular, or the best seller does not the best brand make. It simply means you have the best salesmanship. In that world, Canon seems to be having the most success. How exactly would we determine the best brand? Best service, best design, best features, best customer support, best images, and best user experience are all valid traits. Perhaps a critical / scientific /empirical examination of all cameras models by manufacturer would be in order. Let's see if we can aggregate a lot of the work already done by a couple of camera review sites who take the above traits into consideration.
A perusal of one top camera review site under their 5 star category, show 39 Canon cameras, 18 Sony cameras, 17 Nikon cameras, 6 Fuji cameras, 5 Olympus cameras, 5 Panasonic cameras, 3 Pentax cameras, and 1 Konica camera. A second camera review site under their top 103 cameras showed 46 Canon cameras, 21 Sony cameras, 20 Nikon cameras, 5 Pentax cameras, 3 Fuji cameras, 2 Samsung cameras, 2 Panasonic cameras, 2 Kodak cameras, 1 Konica camera, and 1 Casio camera. If you total all that up, the top 3 end up being Canon with 85, Sony a distant second with 39, and Nikon a very close third with 37. Everyone else had less than 10 top rated cameras.
OK, so the Canon PowerShot SD8000IS Elph, has some issues. But is it enough to be a deal breaker? Well, that's really up to you. Of course the best strategy is to go your favorite camera shop, and try one out. Shoot a bunch of pictures around the store (outside if they let you), and see how they look. Be sure to ask the salesman lots of questions about the problems above, and see what they have to say. There's no substitute for a real life hands on camera trial.
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