Canon PowerShot SD750 and SD1000 First Impressions Review

by Emily Raymond
Published on March 20, 2007

Navigation
Intro	Physical Tour
Components	Design / Layout
Modes	Control Options
Image Parameters	Connectivity / Extras
Overall Impressions	Conclusion
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Picture Quality / Size Options

A 1/2.5-inch CCD remains under the hood of the Canon PowerShot SD750 and SD1000. It has 7.4 total megapixels on it and 7.1 effective. With those, it allows users to choose from the following selection of image sizes: 3072 x 2304, 3072 x 1728 (16:9), 2592 x 1944, 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, and 640 x 480. These can be found in the Func./Set menu along with the JPEG compression settings of SuperFine, Fine, and Normal.

 

Canons are known for their picture effects modes, called My Colors in the cameras. This PowerShot, like others released in the past year, offers the color modes in recording and playback modes. Vivid, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, and Darker Skin Tone can be set. In the recording mode, there is also a Custom Color option grouped with the other options in the Func./Set menu. It allows users to adjust the contrast, saturation, sharpness, skin tones, and red, green, and blue channels on +/- 2 scales with whole steps. Color accent and color swap modes are listed among the exposure modes but are basically color filters of sorts. They aren’t entirely useful, but are interesting to play with when the pictures don’t really matter. Users can select colors almost the same way they select the white balance, then swap them or accent them by making everything else in the frame that isn’t the selected color black & white.