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Canon’s PowerShot SD 700 is an amazing piece of technology, with 6.0 megapixels, 4x optical zoom, and a 2.5 inch LCD. Yet, surprisingly, it only weighs 5.8 ounces!

As Imaging Resource writes, “The Canon SD700 IS sits at the top of Canon’s popular “SD” series of digital cameras. Like other SD models, it’s slim and trim, with a small, rugged metal case with slightly rounded corners and a retracting lens to make it highly pocketable. What’s really unique about the Canon SD700 IS is that it incorporates Canon’s excellent Image Stabilization (”IS”) technology that drastically reduces the effects of camera shake at slow shutter speeds or long zoom settings. This means you can shoot in poor light without having to put the camera on a tripod to avoid the camera shake. (IS typically lets you take crisp shots under light conditions four times darker than you could manage without it.) Even without its unique IS capability, the Canon SD700 IS is a feature-packed little camera, and offers a large, bright 2.5″ LCD display that’s great both for framing your shots and showing them to friends afterwards. Its 6-megapixel sensor has plenty of resolution to make crisp enlargements, even with significant cropping of its images.

Bottom line, the Canon PowerShot SD700 would be a great choice for users looking for a compact, rugged, and stylish model for a ” take-anywhere” digital camera,with Canon’s powerful image stabilization technology as an added bonus for better photos in dim lighting.”

The Product Description
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph sets a new standard. The first Digital Elph equipped with Canon’s Image Stabilizer technology, its sleek, tri-color body is loaded with high-end features that make taking great pictures more stylish and convenient than ever.

Get close, stay steady
Engineered with Canon’s sophisticated Image Stabilizer technology, the SD700 IS Digital Elph gives you the “shake-free” performance that makes your pictures sharp and clear. No matter how close you zoom in, the SD700 IS Digital Elph keeps everything stable. All you have to think about is your subject.

High performance, high style
This is a camera that could make it on looks alone. But wait until you see its performance. The 4x optical zoom brings you in for intimate close-ups. The 6.0-megapixel CCD produces images of impressive quality with resolution that lets you create big prints.

Canon innovation enhances your experience
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph features new ISO 800 and High ISO Auto settings that reduce the effects of camera shake and sharpen subjects in low-light situations, giving you greater flexibility for shooting.

Advanced imaging technology improves every photo

DIGIC II Image Processor
Canon’s DIGIC II Image Processor is designed to improve processing speed and image quality, so DIGIC II provides markedly faster startup, autofocus, and playback, plus it assures that every image is more colorfully vibrant.

iSAPS Technology
iSAPS Technology is an entirely original scene-recognition technology developed for digital cameras by Canon. Using an internal database of thousands of different photos, iSAPS works with the fast DIGIC II Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.

Shoot and view wide images
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph includes a 16:9 widescreen resolution option, producing images and film clips that are perfect for your widescreen TV or computer monitor.

Superior movie quality
Fast Frame Rate Movie Mode allows you to record extremely smooth, full-motion movie clips for up to one minute in QVGA at 60 frames per second (fps) (320 x 240 pixels). With a highly flexible movie mode, you can create the movie that’s perfect for any application. Select from VGA (640 x 480 pixels) and QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) with frame rates of 30 fps and 15 fps for recording up to one hour or 1 GB. Plus, Compact Movie Mode (QQVGA; 160 x 120 pixels) records at 15 fps for up to 3 minutes.

Shooting Modes
Advanced presets for the best possible photos under certain conditions

Auto: The camera chooses all the settings so you can concentrate on your subject.

Manual: The ultimate in creative control, you set ISO speed, exposure compensation and white balance.

Portrait: The camera sets a large aperture, focusing the subject and artistically blurring the background to make your subject “pop.”

Foliage: Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery and blossoms.

Snow: Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects or an unatural bluish tint.

Beach: Get clear shots of people at a sunny beach without darkened faces.

Fireworks: Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.

Underwater: Capture underwater images with reduced backscatter effect. (Note: Optional Waterproof Case WP-DC4 required for shooting any underwater images)

Indoor: Reduce blur and improve color accuracy when shooting handheld indoors.

Kids and Pets: Reduced focusing time freezes fast-moving subjects, so you won’t miss those special shots.

Night Snapshot: Get natural-looking pictures with brighter backgrounds and subjects lit by flash.

Color Accent: Choose to retain a single color in your image while other colors turn monochrome.

Color Swap: Select a color and replace it with a color you specify for special effects.

Digital Macro: Shoot larger-than-life close-ups with one-button simplicity.

Stitch Assist: Build awe-inspiring panoramas by neatly aligning sequential images.

My Colors
     Vivid: Yield vibrant shots with dramatic high-contrast.
     Vivid Blue: Emphasize the sea, sky, and other blue areas.
     Vivid Green: Add vivid dimension to greens for extraordinary nature shots.
     Vivid Red: Charge up red objects in your images for extra impact.

Neutral: Produce images of subtle, elegant tonality.

Sepia: Recreate the look of vintage photographs.

Black and White: Deliver enhanced clarity–especially useful when shooting text.

Positive Film: Combine “Vivid Blue,” “Vivid Green,” and “Vivid Red” to achieve a positive film effect.

Lighter Skin Tone: Make your subjects’ skin tones lighter.

Darker Skin Tone: Darken skin tones a shade.

Custom Color: Finely adjust brightness and vividness, and set your preferred balance of blue, green, red, and skin colors.

CNET gave the Canon PowerShot SD700 a 7.8/10:

“The good: Great performance and pictures; effective image stabilization; attractive, comfortable design.

The bad: No aperture-priority or shutter-priority modes; awkward optical viewfinder and power button.

The bottom line: The Canon PowerShot SD700 IS has practically everything you could want in a compact camera, though you might think the price tag a bit steep. “

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