My New Camera

I bought myself a new camera last month - the Canon PowerShot SD800 IS 7.1MP Digital Elph. I had been kind of in the stone age with my last camera - although it did take pretty good pictures. The features that I was looking for in a new camera were 1) compact size 2) rechargeable battery and good battery life 3) large display 4) SD card 5) great pictures. I got all of this with the Canon and more.

With my last camera, I could always 'improve' the picture through the use of my photo software - Paint Shop Pro. Not so with the pics that I have been taking with my Canon. It is loaded with cool features like auto-stabilization, multi-face detection, photo-stitch (see below) and has a lot of settings for ultimate automatic operation in various settings. I'm quite happy with it!

A feature that is pretty cool is called Photo-Stitch. This is used for taking pictures adjacent to each other to get a big landscape. The camera has a mode that assists you in taking these adjacent pictures with guidance. Then it comes with software that automatically puts these pictures together. The results are surprisingly great! I'll show some of these pics in later postings. They are not perfect and much depends on how steady your arms are when rotating. But without a tripod, I'm surprised at how well they have come out.

Price of the camera was about $350.