If it is true that one can not tell a book by its cover, then the diminutive Canon Powershot SD900 seems too small and compact package that is a 10 megapixel Wallop.
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Canon PowerShot sd900In fact, coverage is pretty cool on its own - the SD900 case is titanium, with its bright medium gray complemented very well chrome bright and flat black accents. Build quality, fit and finish appear to first class. The camera has a 2.5 "LCD monitor and an optical viewfinder, a 10 megapixel sensor 3X optical zoom and Canon that provides a 35mm film equivalent focal length of 37 to 111 mm. Canon claims the DIGIC III processor image provides a better image quality, operating speed and battery performance over previous processors.
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The SD900 is a new addition to the Powershot line and like many point-and-shoot cameras Canon SD line, which offers virtually no manual controls. The ability to produce images with large file sizes seems tailored for those who want to print large enlargements or crop your shots aggressively to produce the desired result.
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Canon offers a wrist strap, battery charger, battery, AV cables and interface, a 32MB SD memory card and CD-ROMs with software every SD900. With a 10 megapixel sensor 32MB card that did not last long, so plan on buying one with more capacity. One card allows some 4 GB + 950 images in the largest file size and configuration of image quality, at least according to the camera meter.
The SD900 measures approximately 2.35 x 3.6 x 1.1 inches and weighs about 6.5 ounces with battery pack and memory card. You can capture still JPEG images in seven different sizes pixel, Motion JPEG and a 160 x 120, 320 x 240, 640 x 480 or 1024 x 768 pixels at 15 and / or 30 frames per second.
House features and designThe front of the camera features 3x zoom lens, flash, viewfinder window, self-timer/red-eye reduction / AF-assist beam and a microphone.
The camera back is dominated by the 2.5 "LCD monitor, but also houses the viewer, the indicator lights, the mode dial, print / share, visualize, function / set nenu and buttons, and Touch Control Dial .
The upper chamber includes a loudspeaker, lamp power and power button, shutter nutton and zoom lens.
A socket threaded tripod, memory card slot / batteries lock release switch, DC coupler terminal cover and memory card slot / cover batteries are in the lower chamber.
A digital terminals and A / V of the terminal can be found beneath the terminal cover the camera on the right side.
Auto modeThe SD900 powers up in a relatively short time - the lens extends as a wide-angle camera and is ready to acquire focus about 1 second after pressing the power button. By default configuration will automatically include the normal color and compression, automatic white balance, the size of large files and evaluative metering exposure. The image quality and color are good enough for shots of scenes illuminated normally automatic settings.
Manual Mode
While the SD900 offers a "manual" which really only allows you to select the exposure compensation, white balance and ISO speed manual as inputs. The camera continues to make almost all the work.
There are also four other shooting options accessed through the "manual" mode: Digital Macro, Color Accent, Color Swap and Stitch Assist. The color options involves the selective color image manipulation, Stitch Assist and helps produce panoramic images.
Special scene modesThere are eleven Special Scene selections available on the SD900 - Portrait, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, under water and ISO 3200. Canon makes a "watertight case" for the SD900 and recommends using it to shoot at ski resorts or beaches.
A word here about ISO 3200: a simple rule of thumb with any digital camera is the image that noise increases as does the ISO level.
canon nb-5l ,Because the sensors in compact cameras dimensions can be smaller than those of their older brothers, this noise may become more apparent in the ISO lowest levels in the covenants. In the SD900, ISO 3200 would be the choice of places where the flash is inappropriate or ineffective, given the distance between the main theme - that literally becomes the final option, the "noise when a picture really is better than no picture at all "the establishment. In the photos below, one was shot in "Indoor Mode" and the other on "ISO 3200" - the results speak for themselves.
Another consideration in the selection of ISO 3200 in the SD900 is that the camera default in 1600 x 1200 pixels. In practical terms, this means that the expansion / crop options offered captured images to higher resolutions are not available in ISO 3200 - you'll be presented with the production of an image that best suits postcard size prints, or slightly larger.
Exposure CompensationIn Manual and many of the special scene modes, the SD900 accepting manual input of + / - 2 EV exposure compensation in 1 / 3 EV increments.
MeteringEvaluative metering, Canon said it was appropriate to the standard lighting conditions, including lighting, the camera is the default setting. Center-weighted and spot metering can also be selected. In the photo below, evaluative metering did a good job of exposing this road backlit billboard.
Focus / Macro FocusThe SD900 will focus as close as 1.6 feet in normal mode, 2-inch wide-angle and macro 12 inches in macro telephoto. There is also an "Infinity" that the establishment of close-focuses on 9.8 feet. The camera is equipped with an autofocus assist beam supporting care in low light conditions.
Monitor / ViewerThe 2.5-inch LCD monitor is composed of some 230000 pixels and is adjustable brightness. On sunny days with direct light on the monitor and a low contrast theme, the photo composition is sometimes problematic, even with the monitor to adjust the maximum brightness. Monitor performance was satisfactory in the absence of direct sunlight and / or a greater contrast topic.
Unlike many cameras in this class, the SD900 is equipped with a viewfinder. Although small, the viewer provides for a viable option for those times when the composition of photos through the monitor has been difficult.
Photos composed through the monitor are captured as they appear on the monitor, but through photos composed by the viewer tended to produce an image that covers most surface that appeared through the search engine. You may find more photos cropping up through the viewfinder to remove objects that "hidden" in the frame.
FlashCanon claims a series of flash to 17 feet and 10 feet at wide angle in shaping telephoto, figures that seem accurate in my experience. Red-eye reduction and slow sync options can be enabled by the shooter. Playing with the flash of color seem accurate to my eye.
I was particularly pleased with the performance of flash in connection with the AF assist beam. In the photos that follow, two of them were made in the copper mine Queen in Bisbee, Arizona. We were 1500 feet into the mine and about 950 feet below ground, and with the exception of our small miners lamps and an occasional bulb, the lighting is nil. The SD900 produced some quality exhibitions despite the near pitch-black environment.
ColorThe SD900 produced accurate color reproductions of my eye across a range of natural light and flash. The camera also has a "My Colors" mode with a series of adjustments that allow the shooter to change colors to be captured: Off (normal colour), Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, b &w; positive Film; light and shades of darker skin; Vivid red, blue or green color and custom.
ISOIn addition to Auto, ISO values of 80, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600 can be selected manually. There is also a high ISO setting, but the camera only select a higher ISO Auto it deems appropriate if this option is chosen. As mentioned above, there is an ISO 3200 Special Scene mode that can be accessed through the menu.
White BalanceThe SD900 features automatic white balance in my experience that worked well in a series of flash and outdoor lighting. There is also daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, fluorescent H and custom white balance options.
Battery performanceCanon claims a canon nb-5l battery life of approximately 230 shots with the LCD monitor activated, and about 700 shots using only the viewer. In my experience the Canon SD900 exceeded the estimate - I got about 250 shots using the monitor, with nearly 80 of those flash also included. I did change the chamber energy savings to minimize the adjustments in time for the various systems.
Performance speedPerformance speed in the SD900 is quite good for a point and shoot. I thought that it could acquire the approach and shoot a good image in lighting conditions at about 1.25 to 1.5 seconds, with the shutter seems to have about .5 seconds or less on fire.
Canon claims to 2 frames per second in continuous shooting rate Large / Fine mode. I saw 5 shots in about 3.7 seconds in the High / Super mode.
Lens PerformanceThe Canon 3x optical zoom in the SD900(
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With a 35 mm film equivalent focal length of 37 to 111mm, the SD900 lens is not really a "comprehensive" wide-angle, but the length of 111mm is very close to the 105 mm focal length 35mm many shooters favour portrait work.
DiversityThe SD900 does not feature image stabilization and has 4x digital zoom and digital macro capability. The camera can print directly to PictBridge-compatible printers (no computer necessary) and also has new face detection technology to identify faces in images and make the focus point.
ConclusionThe Canon SD900 is a compact, elegant shirt-pocket camera that can produce high quality images in file sizes that lend themselves to large additions and / or crops to achieve the desired result.
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