After a few days of review, I went ahead and bought this camera for my girl friend. With herself not ever owning a camera or being that big into electronics, this goes above and beyond all her needs.

Accompanied with an 8GB SD card, that can store 30min of video, with thousands upon thousands of images, at highest resolution--she was very excited.

The camera turns on in about .5 seconds, I am not kidding. It is extremely fast to turn on. But the bad, it takes about 3-4 seconds from FULLY pushing down the button to: Shine red light, focus, then finally take the picture. 3-4 seconds to do all that. So if you want to take a picture and it's in your pocket, you've got about 4 seconds of waiting, that is, if you are quick.

So a way around this, is to half-way hold down the button (which focuses the camera in 3 seconds), then pushing it another half-way takes the picture instantly, virtually just as fast as a camera with film.

Its got lots of fun features... We've had fun with the 'color accent.' For example, at christmas, we went up to a tomato, pointed the camera at it, put the tomato inside the little rectangle on the screen, then push the left arrow (grabs the color). After you have the color you want, take a picture! The photo is a black & white shot, with the tomato the only thing in the picture with color! Actually looks really cool. That was a 'oooo' & 'ahhh'er.

One gripe that high end users will see, is that low light, high ISO photos are not great. Good at best. Not only are the photos grainy & noisy, but the screen shows HIGH levels of noise too! However, turn on the flash, and that fixes the problem, but the issue remains: high ISO images are highly saturated with noise. Good thing most users will not notice this.

My last camera was a LUMIX, which was a great camera, but I think I coughed up around $500 for that. This is better than that 2 yr old camera, for a fraction of the cost.

I gave this camera a 5, for fun features, GREAT image quality (with lots of light; day time), Good image stabilization, great battery life, & a perfect price.

The canon Elph's just keep getting better. This camera is slick, lightweight and goof proof. It takes beautiful pictures and the controls are ergonomically accessible and intuitive. Shutter lag time when using the flash is a little longer than I would have hoped but I may not be using the auto-focus feature correctly. One great feature is the optical viewfinder which allows for steadier picture taking and the turning off of the LCD display to save battery life. Many of the Elphs have cut this feature which eliminated them from my consideration. The videos are terrific and the wide angle/telephoto switch operates during the filming. More expensive models have one great feature that this model doesn't have--a wide angle lens for panoramic shots. Short of that, this model is a tremendous value.

Love the camera so far. Easy to use and a lot smaller than my previous camera. I used to get a lot of blurry pictures. I think the image stabilizer is helping me.

very good device, fast and easy to manage, the picture resolution is good, the camar small and light.very good!

Got this camera for my wife as a Christmas present. She absolutely loves it. She now downloads all the pictures to our home computer with the software and USB connector included in the box. The pictures are sharp and the battery life is longer then my SD600 camera. I would highly recommend the SD770.