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Canon PowerShot SD960IS 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 4x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8-inch LCD (Silver)

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Immediate gratification is the pulse of today, and the PowerShot SD960 IS Digital ELPH with its streamlined appeal wastes no time at reminding you. “Here’s a camera unlike any other.” But it’s the excitement of ongoing discovery - the way this camera captures the vibrant spontaneity of the world before you - that defines the lasting rewards of the PowerShot SD960 IS Digital ELPH, and the new level of pictures and HD movies that await you.
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Technical Details

- 12.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints
- 4x optical zoom; 28mm wide-angle lens
- HD movie shooting capability plus HDMI output
- 2.8-inch widescreen PureColor LCD II screen
- Compatible with SD/SDHC, MMC/MMC Plus/HC MMC Plus (not included)
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Customer Buzz

“Terrible face recognition = useless camera” 2009-10-11
By Waves (Centreville, VA)
Had an SD880IS for a year and was really happy with it, unfortunately I lost it in a trip. Canon released the SD960IS in the meantime so I bought it thinking HD video will be an added plus. BIG MISTAKE! This camera has a major flaw: face recognition does not work well in 80% of pictures. It only works on less than 6ft if sun hits directly on the face and if the subject does not wear glasses, sunglasses or a hat. If face recognition does not detect the face, it will not meter the exposure correctly thus it will not trigger the flash when needed and/or not focus on the subject and you will end up with dark faces, overexposed pictures and out of focus subjects. Now, I did try to overcome this by using the few manual controls available with not much luck. My 5 yr old Canon S70 is much much better in this respect. It is very interesting that face recognition on a $150 Sony DSC-W220 my girlfriend has performs flawlessly and not just with one subject in the picture but even with 5-6. Now, I would not recommend the Sony for other reasons (no wide angle, very noisy, etc) but come on Canon, you cannot release a $330 (at the time of purchase) camera with such poor facial recognition in 2009. SD880IS wasn’t perfect when it comes to facial recognition but unlike the SD960 it worked really well in 90% of cases and that’s good enough for me. There are other things that I don’t like about the SD960 such as the cumbersome menu (worse than the 880), a tendency to use macro mode in Auto mode when shooting scenery, unable to use the flash in auto mode, etc, but no camera is perfect and I wouldn’t consider them a big issue. This camera is going to craigslist or ebay soon at a $150 loss after only 4 months.

Customer Buzz

“great little camera” 2009-10-06
By Deone Renee (Michigan)
I’ve had fun with it so far.
I haven’t figured out the video part on it yet. I can
video on it but don’t know how to replay it. Just need to read the manual…Found tho that it would be good to
have a extra memory card just for video. It uses alot
of the card up.
I really do like it…

Customer Buzz

“Well done, Canon” 2009-10-01
By Richmond Thweatt (Okla City, OK, United States)
Flexible, easily adjustible, reasonably light and compact. I get very few blurs to erase, but if I do it’s incredibly easy. It’s no SLR, but I get tremendous images that transfer to websites and print well. I’m still learning to use the wheel and finding new options and abilities nearly daily. It fits in a front pant pocket and slides out ready to go when I want to capture an image. There are plenty of megapixtals for large blowups.

Customer Buzz

“great camera!” 2009-09-30
By Kimberly Boone (VA)
this camera is great so far! i have had it for a couple of months now. i wanted a very small camera with all of the features that could be crammed in. my previous 3 cameras were olympus. i checked product reviews for about 4 months before i decided. i do suggest going to canon’s website and checking the reviews there. i found another cannon that initially had a product feature of “underwater”, but when i went on cannon’s website, i found that that feature did not exist on the camera i was checking out. their features had initially listed it incorrectly and then corrected it on the cannon website.

Customer Buzz

“New Camera - Same great stuff” 2009-09-28
By Christopher Wickman (Lafayette, LA)
I upgraded from a SD1000 to this. Yes it was an upgrade…LOL. I drop tested my 1000. This camera is GREAT. HDMI feature works wonderfully. Everything works as advertised. I thought this was not supposed to zoom while taping video but it does. BONUS!

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