Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

	Sample Photos
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Sample Photos

In the following sample images, clicking on the larger image will download the full resolution original. Each photo is accompanied by three actual-size crops.

Landscape Sample
			Focal length: 7mm Aperture: f/9 Shutter: 1/200 ISO: 100 Taken in program mode with evaluative metering, automatic white balance and without color enhancement, though that blue sky looks a bit bluer here than we remember it.
			Sharpness is good through most of the image, though as shown in the right crop chromatic aberration is evident in the corners.The white hull on the left is slightly overexposed, but not badly

Wildlife Sample
			Focal length: 33mm Aperture: f/5.7 Shutter: 1/100 ISO: 200 The 33mm telephoto is equivalent to a 185mm lens on a 35mm camera, allowing us to get close to these ducks without putting on waders. The exposure looks good, the colors are accurate.
			The detail level here is very good, with nice reproduction of the subtle color variations in the plummage.

Closeup Sample
			Focal length: 7mm Aperture: f/3.2 Shutter: 1/100 ISO: 400 Shot handheld in macro mode, outdoors in the sunlight,with i-Contrast dynamic range enhancement turned on.
			The extreme highlights around the letter A are blown out but overall the macro mode produced an impressive image, with excellent levels of detail in a frame-filling shot of a very small object.

Signage Sample
			Focal length: 33mm Aperture: f/5.7 Shutter: 1/320 ISO: 400 Shot at full telephoto from across the street, we raised the ISO to 400 to kick up the shutter speed and avoid blur. Our first shots of this sign looked a little flat, so we set My Colors to Vivid and got a richer-looking result.
			The extreme backlighting took its toll on the top corners of the building facade, but the color enhancement worked well, producing deeper but still natural-looking tones. The fine lines in the sign look very clean.

Long Exposure Sample
			Focal length: 7mm Aperture: f/3.2 Shutter: 2.5 seconds ISO: 400 The only manual shutter speed control provided is in the long exposure mode used here, in a darkened room with only indirect sunlight through heavily curtained windows. The camera was mounted on a tripod, the white balance set to automatic.
			There is some image noise to be seen here but overall we're very pleased with this difficult shot, Details are crisp and the colors are perfect. The only major problem: that apparently bowed mantle is perfectly straight in real life, a victim here of lens distortion.

Still Life Examples

The photos below were taken with each comparison camera at all available ISO settings, using automatic white balance. Clicking on the thumbnails will download the full-size version, though this may take a while if your Internet connection is slow.

	Still Life Comparisons
	Canon SD970 IS	Casio EX-FC100	FujifilmF200EXR	Sony DSC-T900
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 400
ISO 800
ISO 1600
ISO 3200
ISO 6400
ISO 12800

NOTE: The images above are not used in our testing or scoring, but are included here to show real-world examples of the differences between cameras at the various ISO settings.