Canon PowerShot SD1000 Digital Camera Review

Canon PowerShot SD1000

Digital Camera Review

Mar 20, 2007 - By Emily Raymond
In February 2007, Canon announced the PowerShot SD750 and SD1000 digital cameras to replace the older SD630 and SD600 models. Don’t let the numbers fool you: the SD750 is the fancier camera with its 3-inch LCD screen compared to the SD1000’s 2.5-inch LCD. The Digital Elphs both have 7.1 megapixels and Digic III image processors with face detection technology.
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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.
 
Picture Effects Mode
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.
 
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