Canon PowerShot SD500 / IXUS 700 Expert Reviews

We have analyzed the reviews for the Canon PowerShot SD500 / IXUS 700 using our BETA review analysis. These are our findings:

Very good image quality, pretty good resolution, pretty good performance, pretty good design, outstanding appearance, extraordinary optics.

Mediocre overall, inferior color, inadequate flash, poor menu, poor shutter, inadequate usability, below average contrast, sub-standard battery, sub-standard memory, very poor features.

Please note: The ratings above are generated using our BETA automatic review analysis and may contain errors.

When Canon set out to make an ultra compact, ultra high resolution camera, it wasn't as simple as dropping a new CCD into an existing body. The reason for that is due to the size of the CCD sensor itself: on the SD200, SD300, and the new SD400, the ...

Excellent photo quality (though see issues below) ; Compact and very stylish metal body ; Blazing performance ; First rate movie and continuous shooting modes ; Powerful flash for a compact camera ; Unique My Colors feature ; LCD visible in low light ...

Some corner softness and purple fringing ; Redeye is a problem ; Cheap plastic door over memory card / battery compartment ; While an improvement over the other SD series cameras, battery life could be better ; Can't swap memory cards while camera is ...

Canon gives you a 32MB Secure Digital (SD) memory card along with the SD500, which sounds nice at first until you see how many photos that can hold. Since you probably don't know, I'll tell you: it holds nine at the highest quality setting. So you ...

Canon wins very high marks with this tiny camera.

Incredibly small ; wonderful picture quality ;

Relatively short-lived proprietary battery ; expensive ;

Frame your shots with ease and share them on the spot.

The $500 Canon PowerShot SD500 Digital Elph is so small it fits easily in just about any pocket, leaving you no excuse for not having a camera handy when those once-in-a-lifetime baby/puppy/soccer shots happen. The resulting photos weren't our taste ...

Small size Rugged body

Image quality isn't tops

The SD500's weakness is its image quality. The photos looked good overall, but in our taste tests they didn't score as well as some other compact point-and-shoots in the same price range. For example, the Fujifilm F10 significantly outscored the SD500 ...

The 7.1-megapixel digital camera is a smooth operator, but its dearth of manual features and high price make it an expensive choice.

Produces excellent color in images ; bright LCD ; 2-shots-per-second continuous shooting mode ; fun My Colors mode ; good video quality ; ability to shoot movies at 60 frames per second ;

No live histogram ; lack of manual controls ; no TIFF or RAW ; pricey ;

At six ounces (without batteries), and about the size of a deck of cards, the SD500 is a true pocket camera. The 2-inch LCD is bright and easy to see, even in afternoon sunlight, and it brightens automatically when shooting in low-light conditions. ...

One of the digital imaging revolution's most fascinating high-tech product developments was the ultra compact digital camera.

The compact Canon Digital ELPH series is bulking up; perhaps not as apparent in size, but definitely in megapixels. The Canon PowerShot SD500 has 7.4 total and 7.1 effective megapixels on its large 1/1.8-inch CCD. Besides upgrading the amount of ...

Sleek, stylish look ; Unusual My Colors mode ; 3 images sizes in movie mode with fast frame rates ; Enough megapixels to print a billboard ;

Lack of aperture and shutter speed controls ; Unless shooting in bright light, noise will be a recurring problem ; Limited sensitivity range (if offering long exposure option) ; Overpriced MSRP of $499 ; zoom switch is not comfortable ;

The 7.1-megapixel Canon PowerShot SD500 follows in the tradition of the Digital ELPH line with its compact size and stylish look. However, this model gets a slight makeover with its rounded edges. The added comfort is a welcome feature to the ELPH ...