Canon PowerShot SD40 First Impressions Review

Three options are provided for image quality, which Canon refers to as Superfine, Fine and Normal. No option is provided for shooting in RAW mode. The image size options are as follows: Large - 3072 x 2304, Medium1 - 2592 x 1944, Medium 2 - 2048 x 1536, Medium 3 - 1600 x 1200, Small - 640 x 480, Postcard - 1600 x 1200 and Widescreen - 3072 x 1728.

Canon provides a number of picture effects modes, which it calls My Colors modes. The effects offered include Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Positive Film, Vivid Blue, Vivid Red, Vivid Green, and Custom Color. The latter allows you to tweak how the colors will be processed with sliders for red, green and blue color enhancement and controls for saturation, contrast, and sharpness. Some pretty freaky effects can be created, but I’m not convinced by these; you could do the same thing with more finesse and better results in an image editing program.