The PowerShot Sd800 Is is the latest edition to the Canon family. Canon, known for their image potential and practicality, has not fallen short with this model. With its shapely curves, glistening accents, and durable frame, the PowerShot Sd800 is someone else point-and-shoot camera that offers amenity and functionality.

Like many other point-and-shoot cameras, this model fits right in the palm of your hand, giving you 100% controllability over the camera. The majority of the buttons are right at your fingertips, with the irregularity of a few that are so tightly integrated, into the frame, they might be difficult to find.

Regardless of its size, there is still abundance of room for the crisp 2.5-inch Lcd screen for instant viewing of your photos. Canon has increased the sharpness, of the Lcd screen, by addition the resolution to 207,000 pixels. While viewing images, instantly, is a breeze, determining battery life is not, as it does not appear on the Lcd display.

The 4-way navigational menu is favorably placed just to the right of the Lcd display, on the back of the camera. This layout, while pretty standard, allows for ease of use with menus and hand-operated operation. Speaking of hand-operated operation, there are only four adjustments that can be made in hand-operated mode, on this model. Those adjustments would be white-balance, exposure compensation, color correction, and metering. All other adjustments would be done after the photo was taken.

Manually adjusting your Iso range is becoming increasingly popular. The PowerShot Sd800 allows you to adjust Iso up to 1,600 - typically used for low light shooting environments. This singular model; however, tends to get a bit noisy at this setting, and images turn about a bit grainy.

The PowerShot Sd800 is one of the first point-and-shoot cameras that allows for wide-angle shots. This is inherent via the 28mm-equivilant wide shot lens, along with the 3.8x zoom. The zoom alone, on this model, is above par when it comes to point-and-shoot cameras.

Image optimization and stabilization are tightly integrated in all of Canon's cameras, along with the PowerShot Sd800. Digic Iii is an image processor that increases performance and battery life, along with optimizing image quality. One of the most involving abilities, of this technology, is the removal of blur from shaky hands.

There are a handful of other functionalities, available on this model. One of which is the burst mode. Burst mode allows you to take multiple sequential pictures with just one click. You can also video distinct events with 30fps Vga to 60fps Qvga production available. A 16Mb memory card comes with every model of the PowerShot Sd800. An additional memory card will be needed, as this size will only store a handful of high potential images.

Spending time finding for the right price is absolutely worth it with this model considering it ranges everywhere from 0 to 0.

The PowerShot Sd800 Is is the stock of one of the most infamous camera makers - Canon. Regardless of a few minor quirks, the camera takes high potential pictures, is easy to travel with, has a durable frame, and is backed by a very well known manufacturer.