The Canon SD900 Digital ELPH features a compact, stylish case with rounded horizontal edges, and a retracting lens to make it pocket-friendly. The Canon SD900 includes a 10 megapixel imager, and a Canon-branded 3x optical zoom lens covers a fairly standard range of 37-111mm equivalent, a moderate wide-angle to moderate telephoto. Exposure is fully automatic, but the user can tweak it with 2.0EV of exposure compensation, and three metering modes to handle difficult lighting, while 11 scene modes keep the camera approachable for beginners.
A long-exposure mode in the Canon SD900 ELPH also lets you manually set exposure times as long as 15 seconds, and a large 2.5 inch LCD display plus an optical viewfinder -- rather rare on digicams these days -- helps frame images on bright days.
The Canon ELPH SD900 also sports a rather wide ISO sensitivity range, from 100 to 1,600 with a special scene mode offering ISO 3,200 equivalent, for better performance in dim lighting... [read more]