We've analyzed prices, features, reviews and other product information for over 183 Canon Digital Cameras to help you decide what to buy. Click on Retrevo's Real Time Reviews below for the product of interest to read a simple & detailed review of the product.
"Attractive, ultracompact design; easy operation; well-rounded, basic feature set....Photo quality dips above ISO 200; flat buttons can be difficult to press accurately....Available in six colors (silver, dark gray, orange, green, pink, and blue), the SD1200 is adorably small, but still comfortable to use...Navigating the menu system is straightforward...Comparing these reviews to 539115 other Digital Compact Cameras reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™..." read more »
"Sleek, tiny shape
Built-in accelerometer
Smart Auto mode quickly and accurately adjusts the settings
Face detection quickly detects and tracks multiple...Weak low-light performance
Picks up scratches easily
Tiny buttons...Of the dozens of cameras we’ve seen launch this spring, the $279 Canon PowerShot SD780 IS, a pint-size point-and-shoot, stands out with one of the sleekest designs...The 4.1-ounce SD780 IS is one of the few pocket cameras that can actually..." read more »
"Very good photo quality, with minimal noise
Compact body by D-SLR standards (though it's not for everyone)
...Rebel XSi only costs a little more
Small, slippery right hand grip
...Overall, the photo quality on the Rebel XS was excellent, and with the 18 - 55 mm kit lens performing admirably...Noise and noise reduction weren't an issue until around ISO 800 in low light, and ISO 1600..." read more »
Retrevo's Recommendation: Strong Buy if you want high-end
"Viewfinder; simple operation; inexpensive; excellent photo quality for the money....Mixed performance; short battery life....Available in four two-toned colors--gray, blue, pink, and green--the A1100 IS feels higher quality than its price lets on...At first glance, it seems as if there's a lot going on with the controls for the A1100 IS...Comparing these reviews to 539115 other Digital Compact Cameras reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™ 94/100 =..." read more »
"The camera's display is well implemented, with intuitive navigation options, and support for touch-based focusing...Perhaps one of the SD980's most enticing features, the 24mm wide-angle lens is a bit of a disappointment?it suffers from significant barrel distortion and softness at the outer regions of the frame...Overall, the Canon PowerShot SD980 IS offers an impressive feature set, including an intuitive and responsive touch screen, a wide-angle lens, speedy operation, and HD video capture..." read more »
Retrevo's Recommendation: Average Buy for Everyone
"The Canon SX120IS follows up last year's SX110IS model - itself an update of 2007's popular long-zoom SX100IS model...As was the case with its predecessor, with dimensions of 4.4 x 2.8 x 1.8 inches (111 x 71 x 45mm) and weighing in at 10.7 ounces (302g) including battery and flash card, the Canon SX120IS won't fit in your shirt pocket, but isn't unreasonably large...The Canon PowerShot SX120 combines its ten megapixel sensor with a 10x optical zoom lens, which offers the range from a somewhat tight 36mm wide angle to a useful 360mm telephoto...The earlier camera used an older generation of Canon's DIGIC processor, which the SX120 has now replaced with the current spec...The Canon PowerShot SX120 IS stores images on Secure Digital or MultiMediaCard media, including the newer (and higher capacity) SDHC types..." read more »
"Very good photo quality (though not at default settings)
Remarkably little noise
Compact body by...JPEGs are very soft at default settings (adjust in-camera sharpening or shoot RAW for best results)
...The Rebel XSi (also known as the EOS-450D) is the replacement to the extremely popular Rebel XTi, offering these new features...Is the photo quality just as good...Due to my limited resources, please do..." read more »
Retrevo's Recommendation: Strong Buy if you want high-end
"Excellent photo quality; comfortable to use in water or with gloves....Poor design for an everyday camera, expensive for an occasional camera; kind of ugly; mixed performance....The D10 out of water or off the slopes looks a bit clumsy...The buttons, though a bit rearranged from typical Canon layouts, are big and slightly more raised than usual...The D10 is also a very basic 12-megapixel point-and-shoot camera at its core...The D10, though not blisteringly..." read more »
"For its size, the SX1 is pretty light...Its 16:9 aspect ratio is great for properly framing shots to fill widescreen displays, but it shows images with black bars to the left and right if you shoot in the more traditional 4:3 aspect ratio...The SX1 offers an auto mode, face detection, and a number of scene modes, as well as fantastic manual controls...This tiny LCD, mounted where the optical viewfinder usually is, may be a good alternative to an optical viewfinder on a point-and-shooter, but it's nowhere near the quality of a D-SLR's viewfinder...Running the SX1 through our photography lab and real-world testing showed that its CMOS sensor did not help the SX1 deliver SLR-level image quality: This camera is basically a very solid point-and-shooter, producing great shots in good light but noisy ones in low-light situations..." read more »
Retrevo's Recommendation: Average Buy if you want high end
"Good image quality
Low shutter lag; fast AF
Manual shooting controls...Slow lens at telephoto
Smaller LCD
Less zoom than others...The SX20 carries a Digic IV processor (as does the SX10), but the mention of "improved smart auto" in Canon's ad copy suggests the later model processor may give the camera some additional capability...While the SX20 IS has been described by Canon as the successor to the SX10 IS, that camera remains on the Canon website..." read more »
Retrevo's Recommendation: Strong Buy if you want high-end