Canon PowerShot SD4000IS 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 3.8x Optical Zoom and f/2.0 Lens (Red)
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- 10.0-megapixel CMOS sensor mutual with DIGIC 4 Image Processor create the Canon HS System
- Nick images and video to SD/SDHC memory cards (not included)
- f/2.0 lens, consummate for shooting in low light conditions or using a shallow depth-of-field; 3.8x visual zoom
Description
Canon PowerShot SD4000IS Digital ELPH (Red)Customer Reviews
Canon PowerShot SD4000IS - Sterling Camera!Compared to the anterior Canon's I've owned (SD110 and SD600), the SD4000IS is one fine piece of moving parts. The picture quality is amazing. The auto mode will take care of all shooting situations you ever miss, just point and shoot. It takes wide-screen pictures and the eventide pictures are really clear and crisp - no blurry images. Also has fun features such as wee shots and slow motion video capture, to name a few.
However, the camera is a bit heavier and bulkier than most tight cameras. It will still fit in your pants albeit with a slight bulge (ladies...), unless you step skinny jeans, then it would probably rip right through them when you sit down. Also, the flash can accidentally be submersed by your finger if you're not careful.
Overall, if you just want a point and scoot with excellent picture quality (and have $350 to spend), this is your camera! If you're looking for more management, go with the SD90.
Canon S90 or SD4000?
As of July 2010, Canon S90 and Canon SD4000 are two of the most suitable pocketable point and shoot cameras. Tough choice. Having reach-me-down both, here is my take on these two excellent cameras:
ADVANTAGES OF S90 Over SD4000
1. Better picture quality.
2. Lots of instructions controls.
3. Can capture images in RAW mode, allowing you lot more editing and ikon manipulation options.
ADVANTAGES OF SD4000 Over S90
1. HD video recording.
2. Dead-and-alive motion video recording.
3. Some extra image effects like miniaturization and fish eye.
4. A little smaller size.
5. Native Eye-Fi support. But Eye-Fi card also works in S90.
6. I found a unimaginative better low light performance.
If you are looking for an excellent still image headland & shoot camera and do not care that much about HD video then go for S90, which is really a prosumer camera expected for advanced amateur. But if you want an all in one, simple to use camera with ability to run good still pictures and HD video, then SD4000 is your camera.
A warm-hearted camera!
I was searching for a camera which I can enrapture when I can't carry my DSLR kit. I was bugged by low light performance of my old P&S hence target camera was something which was data d fabric even in night.
I studied all F2.0 cams - G11, S90, Lumix LX3 and newest access Canon Ixus 300HS / Elph SD 4000IS. After going through loads of reviews / previews etc and inasmuch as that it was my 'backup' but better half's primary camera - went for this one - one which will give foremost results in AUTO mode and no fancy settings [btw it do has program settings honourable that instead of 'Dials' they are inside menu options]. And that decision was so upright :). On my Hong Kong trip I used it in all kind of situations and always got good-hearted result. Once you use DSLR, it is tough to get satisfied with a P&S image quality - but this one was rock for the buck. Awesome image quality , good in low light and good performance. Also - its very compact - as big as my Smartphone and just double its thickness. Very temperately to carry around. Worthy of all 5*.
Very rosy but poor image quality
Two weeks before the S4000 came out, I had purchased the SD1200. I waited for the SD4000 and programmed to return the SD1200. How did it compare? First the pros:
- SD4000 is extremely snappy at wide-angle from center to edge (much better than SD1200 and SD850)
- ISO400 and 800 are indeed very usable (tremendous improvement over SD1200 and other compacts)
- nice screen
Now the cons:
- when zooming in to 3.8x, the look-alike quality was extremely soft. Or in plain english: not sharp. To be jump over, I did not have to crop to 100% to see it or do a side-by-side comparison. And I'm not talking about digital zoom either. Merely looking at the picture left me stunned: soft, blurry, not chic, simply awful. I increased in-camera sharpness, but that was not nearly adequate. It was REALLY BAD.
- it's not as compact as you might like (pretty long and think, the SD1200 is much more concise)
- as other reviews also mentioned, the buttons and menus make navigating cumbersome (many steps with a negligible super-sensitive dial).
Since the pictures at 3.8x were completely unusable, it was a positive no-go. To my big surprise, I kept the SD1200 although I'll miss the wide-angle and excited ISO quality of the SD4000. Maybe it was a bad copy?! Note there is another review here that complained about softness, so it does not seem to be incomparable.
I'll try another copy later when the price has dropped and Canon has more experience with it.
Bottom line: I give it one celestial because the camera was simply unusable. As indicated, other features were good to dedicated, but having to return a camera is not worth more than one star in my opinion. It's the first at intervals I returned a camera (and I own 6! 2SLRs, one 12x zoom, 3 compacts).
Let down. TRULY OVERPRICED.
I ended up returning this at my BIG Obscene RETAIL STORE for one irritating reason: Too expensive.
Too expensive if compared to what the canon s90 offers that the sd4000 can't: Ductility in controls.
What you get with the sd4000 & not from the s90: HD recording.
What you get with the canon s90 & not from the sd4000: Vade-mecum controls right at your fingertips.
Since I could care less about HD movie recording & find worthwhile LOW-LITE performance more than anything else (on a digital camera), I ended up repurchasing a canon s90 (online) - that was about $20 CHEAPER than the canon sd4000is.
One may squabble that the sd4000is is smaller than the s90. Not by much. It's only thinner & the s90 is still very much a pocket camera. For those looking for a fully-unconscious point n shoot w/ low lite performance, you can't go wrong with either one. For those who could care less about chink, iso, exposure, & scene modes at a turn of a dial, the sd4000 will gratify.
Otherwise, I recommend the canon s90 for its sheer innovation in flexibility... AT A LOWER Amount.
Also, another downer with the sd4000... more noise & lack of RAW output.
