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Canon PowerShot Digital Elph review: Canon PowerShot Digital Elph

Name: Canon PowerShot Digital Elph
Brand: Canon

Canon PowerShot Digital Elph

Lori Grunin and Robert Dubbin

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Lori Grunin and Robert Dubbin

Sept. 29, 2005 10:38 p.m. PT

PowerShot SD500Sony's form-over-function DSC-T1stylisticimitators
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Shooting speed in seconds
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)

Canon PowerShot SD550

2.0

0.7

1.6

Sony Cyber Shot DSC-P150

1.9

0.6

3.0

Canon PowerShot S70

2.0

0.8

3.1

Olympus C-7000

2.3

0.5

2.2

Continuous-shooting speed
(Longer bars indicate better performance)

Canon PowerShot SD550

2.0

Olympus C-7000

1.5

Sony Cyber Shot DSC-P150

1.4

Canon PowerShot S70

1.0

For an ultracompact camera, the SD550 produced some very sharp shots (top), as you can tell from the detail above (bottom).

7.2

Canon PowerShot Digital Elph

Score Breakdown

Design 8Features 6Performance 7Image quality 7