Review 5 of 20
Summary:
While it is fun and convenient to have a camera small enough to take everywhere, once the novelty of having a camera this small had worn off, I was left regretting having purchased it because its lens was inadequate to the sort of everyday snapshot shooting to which its size is suited. As a result, although I have carried the camera in my pocket to many places where I wouldn't have wanted to take a larger caamera, it has stayed in my pocket on many occasions when I would have taken it out had it had a normal lens.
Unless you know that wide-angle photos are the only type you want to take, I would strongly recommend either getting a camera with a normal range lens, or spending the 20% extra and getting a zoom lens. Strengths:
This camera's greatest strength is it's tiny size. It's so small that that it's hardly noticable in my pocket. Since I bought it I always have a camera handy when I see something that just -needs- to be photographed. Weaknesses:
Its biggest weakness is its wide-angle fixed focal length lens. This camera is terrible for taking snapshots of people, because the wide-angle lens leaves a choice between standing close enough to the subject that they will appear distorted in the photograph, or else standing far enough away from the subject that they are lost in a sea of extranious clutter.
The camera seems to have been designed to take wide panoramic shots, and was designed so at the expense of everything else. That's the only reason I can think of that Canon would have put a wide-angle lens on it rather than a ``normal'' angle lens. A normal lens would be much better suited to the sorts of snapshots most people want to take. Similar Products Used:
I've used a variety of point-and-shoot cameras in other film formats over the years, but this is the first APS camera I've used.
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