The Canon PowerShot SD1000 at 125 grams has a 7.1 megapixel CCD that captures photos that can be printed into 15 x 20 inch high quality prints. It has a built-in flash and a 4x digital and 3x optical zoom. The SD1000 is powered by the DIGIC III image processor that has the unique Face Detection Technology, Red-eye Correction and iSAPS technology that improves exposure, accuracy and focus speed.

Features

SD1000 has a 2.5 inch TFT colored LCD screen that has an anti-scratch coating and anti-reflective as well. It’s LCD has a brightness of up to 15 levels. It has 17 shooting modes with 8 special scene modes. It also has different recording pixels that users can choose from and video outputs can be in NTSC or PAL. It has a shooting capacity of around 210 still shots and playback time of approximately 240 minutes. It has extra storage through SD memory card, SDHC memory card and multimedia card. It can be directly connected to computers through a USB 2.0 high-speed (mini B jack). It also has the Print/Share button that can be connected to Selphy, Canon Compact printers and any PictBridge compatible printers.

Canon PowerShot SD1000 is a very good ultra compact camera supporting a lot of features. Canon PowerShot SD1000 offers 7-megapixels of resolution, a 3x optical zoom lens, 2.5-inch "PureColor" Multi-level LCD display, VGA sized movie mode as well as Canon’s new Face Detection AF/AE/FE technology. This camera is so simple that it can be used by any member of your family. Its functions are similar to the model SD600 but with extra feature, facefocus, improved digital zoom. The photo quality is good due to the 7 megapixels, and video shoot is of longer time. Canon PowerShot SD1000 is great especially for outdoor shooting. The CanonPowerShot SD1000 took 0.98 second to start up and capture its first JPEG. Following JPEGs took 1.48 seconds between shots with the flash turned off and 2.44 seconds with the flash enabled. Shutter lag measured 0.45 second in our high-contrast and 0.9 second in low-contrast situations. Continuous shooting wasn’t quite as fast as its 6MP predecessor, 1.7 frames per second regardless of image size. Canon’s face detection system is quickly and accurately detected most of the faces. However the face detection relies mostly on the subjects’ eyes, as the detection got slightly confused when one of the subjects closed his eyes. Image quality of the PowerShot SD1000 is excellent with accurate colors and plenty of sharpness. Canon keeps noise well under control from ISO 80 through ISO 200 at ISO 400 noise and ISO 800 brings significantly more noise, however images may be usable for smaller prints (4x6 inch.). It is strongly recommended staying below ISO 800 whenever possible and not using ISO 1600 at all. Nevertheless this camera is much better as compared with others in terms of ISO noise. Some complain that the battery/SD card compartment is not accessible when it is used with tripod.