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Canon's 1st hybrid (Nice try, lots of room for improvement!)

Apr 18, 2007

Rating: 5 out of 10 (Average)
Pros: Solid build. Supports HD Video (not full HD), and 16:9 picture format
Cons: Grainy video, small LCD, heavy
Opinion:
If you are looking for a hybrid camera and video quality and filesize is important to you, forget this, go for the Casio EX-V7. The video taken by this camera turns out rather grainy, even in fairly bright lit room. An 8gb SDHC can only take 30mins of video at HQ Wide Mode. Compare this to Casio EX-V7, which gives much better video quality, and the 8gb SDHC can take about 120mins of video at HQ Wide mode (cos of the H.264 compression). Both this Canon and Casio EX-V7 allows optical zooming during video recording, a feature not found in most cameras with video function.

The LCD screen is a disappointment, it's too small for making any fair judgement, either taking photos or video, not to mention the unit is quite heavy at 220g!!

No case comes with this camera, imagine that. You have to purchase it separately. The case was not available at the time of my purchase. I returned the unit immediately after seeing how the video taken by this camera! Lucky thing I the case was not available then.

Well, still an applaud for Canon's first attempt with a hybrid.

Why these people never learn (same with many other manufacturers!)...since there is an USB port to connect to the PC, why not use the same port for charging the device as well! Makes travelling a lot lighter without having to carry an extra charger. I charge my Nokia phone, PDA phone, portable video player, all using USB!!