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Canon PowerShot SD300

  • 4 Megapixels
  • 3 X Optical Zoom , 3.6 X Digital Zoom
  • Ultra-Compact / Mini Digital Camera
  • 2 in LCD Screen
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars (26 reviews)
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    User review from

    Shopzilla

    • Product Rating: 5 star(s) This is it
      by Online Shopper, May. 12, 2005
    • Pros: Small size, Metal Case, Good Feel, Big LCD, Nive Finish
    • Cons: Plastic Battery and AV cover, better case design
    • Has Owned Product: 2 months
    • Comments:
      I have been waiting fo get a digital camera for a very long time. (14 yrs) I saw a proto type from a company in Chatsworth,CA called DYCAM (who apparently sold it to Logitech). Having seen the very first crude b/w pictures, even then it had enormous poss...
     

    User review from

    Shopzilla

    • Product Rating: 3 star(s) PowerShot SD300
      by Online Shopper, Feb. 18, 2005
    • Pros: point & shoot, crisp & clear images
    • Cons: typical sure show - be careful of red eye
    • Has Owned Product: 3 months
    • Comments:
      Like all powershot camera's the SD-300 takes excellent pictures, is super easy to use and small enough to take with you every where. It's only drawback, like all the powershot's. indoor pictures inevitably have people with red eye. Highly recommended...
     

    User review from

    Shopzilla

    • Product Rating: 5 star(s) Great 1st Camera
      by Online Shopper, Jan. 11, 2005
    • Pros: Big LCD display - Easy to use - Great Picture Quality
    • Cons: None so far
    • Has Owned Product: 2 days
    • Comments:
      I've done alot of research on cameras & I kept coming back to the SD300. Its a really good size if you like small cameras & has a huge lcd display screen. It's picture perfect! Also the price was unbeatable for an awesome 4.0 megapixel camera. I have to...
     

    Professional review from

    asia.cnet.com

    • Product Rating: 3.9 star(s) Canon Digital IXUS 40
      by Calvin Siew
    • Pros: Ultraslim form factor; 2-inch LCD; noticeable improvement over the IXUS IIs; teriffic finish; good image quality.
    • Cons: Expensive; tripod mount slightly off-center from lens; slight purple fringing.
    • Comments:
      The Digital IXUS 40 is Canon's slimmest optical zoom model to date with some compelling features. ...
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    Professional review from

    pcmag.com

    • Product Rating: 4 star(s) Canon PowerShot SD300 Digital Elph
      by Sean Carroll
    • Pros: Excellent daylight images and very good flash shots. Good menus. Tiny and tough.
    • Cons: Mediocre recycle times. Smallish LCD, Optical viewfinder placement could be better.
    • Comments:
      Megapixels: 4, Maximum Resolution: 2272 x 1704 pixels, Included Memory Amount: 16 MB, Included Memory: Media Card, ... ...
    • Read full review at pcmag.com
     

    Professional review from

    photokina-show.com

    • Canon Digital IXUS 40
      by Ilse Jurrien
    • Comments:
      Canon today unveils the super stylish brother-sister cameras - the Digital IXUS 40 and the Digital IXUS 30. A breakthrough in lens material science has paved the way for the smallest ever cameras from Canon to feature a 3x optical zoom. With beautifully r...
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    Professional review from

    digitaltrends.com

    • Canon PowerShot SD300
      by Online Shopper
    • Comments:
      Canon has today announced what it is calling a brother-sister pairing, in the shape of the PowerShot SD200 and PowerShot SD300. They are the first cameras to incorporate two UA (Ultra-high Refrac... ...
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    Professional review from

    macworld.com

    • Product Rating: 3 star(s) PowerShot SD300
      by Robert Ellis
    • Pros: Excellent color and detail; fast continuous mode; good video quality; 2-inch LCD; easy menus; printed manual.
    • Cons: Noise; pronounced blue fringe; expensive.
    • Comments:
      This 5-mexapixel camera is a solid shooter, but it's also pricey while its images suffer from noise and fringing. ...
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    Professional review from

    maxpc.co.uk

    • Product Rating: 3.55 star(s) Canon Digital IXUS 40
      by Rod Lawton
    • Comments:
      It's the smallest, fastest IXUS yet, but what about the quality of the images?...
     

    Professional review from

    dpreview.com

    • Product Rating: 4 star(s) Canon PowerShot SD300
      by Simon Joinson
    • Pros: Incredibly compact design, Slim enough for any pocket or purse, Beautifully built and all-metal construction, Excellent color, Manual (custom) white balance, Very good resolution, Good exposure and generally very reliable focus, Good flash performance at
    • Cons: Strong purple fringing, Some edge softness at wide angle/max aperture, Battery life when using LCD not fantastic, Occasional lens flare, No exposure information in record or playback mode, Very little manual control
    • Comments:
      Announced at the end of September 2004, the SD300 (which goes by the names of Digital Ixus 40 in Europe and IXY DIGITAL 50 in Japan) is the latest in a long line of ultra-compact 'ELPH' or 'IXUS' cameras stretching back to early 2000 (and a lot farther ba...
     

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