Canon SD500 first impressions

re: Canon SD500 first impressions

theCoach — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:34:00 GMT

I have recommended this camera to others, but this is a good chance to point out that megapixels is not the whole story. I am not sure what dSLR you have, but I would imagine that you would agree that it has nicer images than the sd500, and not just because it may have some extra megapixels.

re: Canon SD500 first impressions

Michael Creasy [MSFT] — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:56:00 GMT

Indeed, the lens makes a huge difference and you can't compare the lens on camera like the SD500 to a good SLR lens.

re: Canon SD500 first impressions

James — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:11:00 GMT

How are indoor shots without flash? I have the SD300, and occasionally get blurring photos with no flash. Part of the challenge is that the camera is so light, and so hard to hold steady I think.

re: Canon SD500 first impressions

Michael Creasy [MSFT] — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:07:00 GMT

I haven't held the SD300 so I'm not sure of the weight difference, some people feel the SD500 is a heavy camera, but my own reference is my 20D which is much heavier. I've taken a couple of indoor shots without a flash without any problems.

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bob — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:52:00 GMT

I have the SD300 and hate that they moved the stitch menu so deep, it used to be at the top level menu so you could get to it easily and now you have to go into manual then the into the 2nd menu and scroll upwards (it's hidden on the screen). very painful.

the good news is that the camera is very very fast and takes great pics.

James: Have you tried going into Indoor more on the first menu?

re: Canon SD500 first impressions

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:19:00 GMT

Please post some time later, when you have SD500 used for a while, will you be still satisfied or you'll take the DSLR back. I tried a few time to use consumer cameras and always ended up getting rid of them and returning to DSLR. I tried Canon SD110, Nikon Coolpix SQ, Canon G3. All of them were too slow to start, too slow to shoot, too slow to focus, images were too noisy. So each time I ended up picking back D30 and then D60 with 24mm lens. I have been looking at SD500 which is reportedly fast to start and can take few images with reasonable fps and that DIGIC II make pictures really good. What sucks though that it does not output RAW.

re: Canon SD500 first impressions

Michael Creasy [MSFT] — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:53:00 GMT

I won't be taking the dSLR back. It's an entirely different kind of camera. The SD500 is for times when carrying the SLR isn't possible or practical.

re: Canon SD500 first impressions

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:13:00 GMT

True, but each time I tried compact cameras I ended up either not taking any pictures or taking tons of bad ones. D20 with prime lens is not very large anyway. Far cry from SD, but much smaller than EOS-1 with L zoom :-)

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