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Canon IXUS 700 / PowerShot SD500 / IXY 600 Reviews

Digital camera - 5.0 Mpix - optical zoom: 3 x - supported memory: CF More product details

$273.00

Very well designed ; the best start-up time in its class ; quick shot-to-shot performance ; novel... (cnet.com)

Excellent photo quality (though see issues below) ; Compact and very stylish metal body ; Blazing... (dcresource.com)

alaTest Review Summary for Canon IXUS 700 / PowerShot SD500 / IXY 600

We have collected and analyzed 81 expert reviews and 1014 user reviews from international sources. Experts rate this product 81/100 and users rate it 84/100. The average review date is January 8, 2006. We have compared these reviews to 556317 reviews from other Digital Compact Cameras. The alaScore™ for this product is 88/100 = Very good. Last update: November 19, 2009.

alaSCORE 88

880100

1095 reviews

November, 2009

81 / 100

81 Experts

Product Age

old
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84 / 100

1014 Users

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from $273.00

Expert Reviews (81)

US

Canon PowerShot SD500

By Robert Dubbin (cnet.com)

Very well designed ; the best start-up time in its class ; quick shot-to-shot performance ; novel fast frame-rate movie mode

More frequent than usual purple fringing ; longish flash shot-to-shot times

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Performance of Canon PowerShot SD500Looking at the Canon PowerShot SD500's...

Rating

72100

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Canon PowerShot SD500 Digital ELPH

By Jeff Keller (dcresource.com)

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 ...

No rating

dcresource.com
US

Canon PowerShot SD500 Review

By David J Elrich (digitaltrends.com)

Canon wins very high marks with this tiny camera.

Incredibly small ; wonderful picture quality

Relatively short-lived proprietary battery ; expensive

It's nowhere near as confusing as the previously reviewed Canon PowerShot S2...

Rating

80100

digitaltrends.com

User Reviews (1014)

US

Safe investment, but not the best for photgraphers

By ddd (shopzilla.com)

Compact size, simple interface

minimal photographic features

US

Safe investment, but not the best for photgraphers

By ddd (shopzilla.com)

Compact size, simple interface

minimal photographic features

US

none

By gustavo (shopzilla.com)

Manufacturer's Description

The biggest breakthrough for the slim and trim ELPH line is the increased resolution of the PowerShot S500 Digital ELPH camera. Utilizing the same CCD sensor as is found on the top-rated PowerShot S50 and G5 model digital cameras, this five megapixel model captures JPEG images in SuperFine, Fine and Normal resolution modes and is also the first model in its class to offer 640 x 480 movie recording at ten frames per second for up to 30 seconds per clip. With the PowerShot S500 Digital ELPH...

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