Tea Jay
I find this camera easy to use, easy to hold, lightweight to pack around, and it takes great photos. Not a full sensor camera, but enough data in the raw photos to get very nice enlargements. The options for still photography are good. There are enough choices for customizing and for letting the camera make the exposure for the camera operator. The swing-out, and rotatable screen is really wonderful. Being able to use the live view on the screen, while holding the camera where my eye has trouble getting (like very high, or very low) is wonderful. The magnification on the live view for focusing on exactly what I want, has also been very useful and even fun. Shooting from the screen, can be useful with mostly still objects, but doesnt work fast enough for tracking children, for example. Overall the screens extra functionality and versatility really tops off the quality of the CMOS sensor with 18MP recording. The video, however, leaves a lot to be desired. The visual quality is ok, but the camera picks up the sound of the very slow focusing mechanism in the lens and makes nature filming pointless. I feel like I still need to get a video camera to carry along side of this still camera and am disappointed that Cannon used up space and weight for that function if they didnt intend for it to be as useful as the still photography aspect.
