Canon PowerShot SD450 (Digital IXUS 55 / IXY Digital 60)

Opinion: Canon does it again. Very nice images. Beautiful display and the sharpest looking
Elph yet! Nice to see the viewfinder is still intact as well.

Opinion: I returned my Ixus 750 because of a dead pixel (bright blue) in the LCD. Instead of getting a replacement 750 I decided to get an Ixus 55. The 750 is small but the 55 is amazingly small. It fits your pocket that bit better than the 750.

As for the reduction from 7m pixels to 5m pixels I just dont think it matters for me. This camera will just be just for parties and family gatherings and the pictures will be printed no bigger than 7x5.

Its just perfect for that kind of situation.

Opinion: I have been waiting to get another portable digital camera because of the shutter delay in previous cameras I have owned, and for the fact that I am used to a dslr most of the time. This camera impressed me with its overall quick response and great pictures. While it won't out-do any of my dslr's it is very portable and will definately be a great free-time camera. I also really love the large lcd screen, its aids in checking pics after they are shot as well as in getting a good shot.

Opinion: I purchased a SD450 a week ago, I had to go back to the store to exchange it 3 times:

1st SD450: Blurry corners, later I realized it's an issue for most SD cameras, so it was more of my own fault.

2nd SD450: Dead pixel, I've heard some stories about dead pixels, never thought it'd happen to me but it did. a blinking dot appeared on the LCD whenever the screen was on, it didn't affect taking pictures but it was annoying to look at the LCD.

3rd SD450: After exchanging the camera twice the 3rd one seemed perfect at first, but when I took some images and compared them to my old SD400 (basically the same as SD450 but with a smaller LCD), the images looked not as sharp as SD400. One new feature Canon added is a red camera shake icon will appear on the lower left screen if taking pictures in dark environment or zoom in further, at first it seemed like a neat feature but it got pretty annoying because the red warning icon would appear almost every time when I tried to zoom in to take an indoor picture. I found the images taken with this red shake warning icon on would look slightly blurry, I don't know if the red icon has anything to do with the blurry images but images definately look more blurry compared to SD400.
4th SD450: this is the one I keep, it takes better images then the 3rd SD450 (just goes to show you not every camera is the same-even for the same model), but oeverall the image quality still doesn't look as sharp as SD400.