Canon PowerShot SD850 IS 8.0 MP Digital Elph Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

This is a solid camera, just holding it you can tell that it's not flimsy. I even dropped it once right on the extended lens and it still works fine. The optical zoom is great, image stabilizer is nice too. All around great camera.

This is an all around quality camera. For any amateur photographer who wants to take great pictures while having the ability to change some settings manually, this is what you are looking for! I am enjoying every new opportunity to take photos with my new camera!

... yard waste container, and it remained there for five days, surrounded by damp grass clippings. It was pretty damp, too when I rescued it. I removed the battery, opened the doors, and sat it in front of a fan for a day. It works fine. The LCD has a faint waterstain on it, but that may be fading. It's quite usable, regardless. Well-built gear.

It's a very good photo camera. Films a great too, considering it is a snail camera.
The only thing to complain is that some people may find it a little tricky to operate.

This is my second Canon Powershot SD series camera. I bought the orignal S400 way back in 2003 and loved it.

This one has better specifications and more features but surprisingly, the image quality isn't that much better than my old one. Although the image quality is has always been very good already... but it's not quite DSLR level (I have a Nikon D40 to compare it to).

There are some things I don't like about this camera. Many options are buried too deep in the menu system and takes too many finger clicks to access. Even simple settings that were easily accessible on my previous model are now more difficult to get to. The automatic white balance is still very poor. The rounded edges look cool, and it seems too slide into my pocket easier, but it's also prone to falling over when you're trying to balance it on a table or book for a group shot. I haven't found the IS mode to be as good as some say it is. It makes some difference but ultimately the built-in lens is pretty slow so you still have to use a flash most of the time when you're shooting indoors.

I really like the larger LCD screen and it's been amazingly scratch proof.

Overall, the camera takes very good pictures and the small size is great. I don't like the ergonomics and I haven't been that impressed with the image stabilization.

If there was a 3.5 star rating, then that's what I would have given it.