Canon Powershot SD700 IS-IXUS 800 IS
Canon’s SD700 IS is the replacement for the SD500 and SD550 digital cameras released last year. The SD700 IS or Ixus 800 IS is the first of the Powershot SD series to incorporate image stabilization into the camera housing.
The SD700 IS retains the new curvier housing style introduced in the SD500 but cuts the resolution down to 6 megapixels. While the new housings are more stylish they are larger overall than the boxier but more compact design of the SD450 type style.
Some key points of this camera:
- 4x zoom
- 2.5” LCD
- first Powershot compact camera with image stabilization
- ISO 800 speed 16:9 wide screen photos
The new widescreen recording mode (2816 x 1584 recording pixels) captures still images at 16:9 format – designed for viewing images on widescreen television or printing wide photos with a SELPHY CP series Compact Photo Printer. Canon did not extend this feature to the SD700 IS’s movie mode, probably not to take away from their digital video camera business.
DPreview’s full review of the Canon Powershot SD700 IS / IXUS 800 IS concludes:
“Whereas virtually ever other Ixus/ELPH camera I’ve reviewed over the last few years has failed, in some way, to produce…
Read Full ArticlePrint Mini Business Cards Directly from Flickr with Moo
Have you ever wanted to turn some of your Flickr photos into business cards? It seems Moo thinks so. They have created an online service that takes images from your Flickr photostreams, sets and groups and prints them onto
You can order 100 cards for $19.99 US (available to Canada and USA) but what makes it unique is every card can have a different photo!
Each card can have a personalized message on the back. Moo had a promotion for Flickr Pro users where users got a pack of 10 for free with the Flickr logo on the back.
The mini cards are about half the height of a regular business card at 28mm x 70mm on heavy stock paper with a smooth satin finish.
As for image resolution their FAQ states “For the best results, the minimum recommended image resolution for a card is 640×480 (VGA).” The Flickr logo and buddy icon can be removed during purchase.
Getting your Flickr photos onto the cards is dead easy. I was impressed by how simple it was. Four pages in their browser application to final purchase.
Wonderful how popular new web businesses like Flickr can often spin off new opportunities for…
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Do you take a lot of portrait photography? How about weddings or parties? Then you know how important well balanced skin tones are to your photos. Sure, you can take the image into Photoshop and adjust it but why go to the hassle because your equipment let you down?
The folks at shootsmarter have taken the bull by the horns and taken a crop of professional digital slr’s, run them through a test shoot, printed the results and given them a score.
The professional DSLR cameras tested were:
With 2 or 3 bodies each (except for the Canon 1D’s where only 1 each were available but they were rather new and in excellent condition) they adjusted for exposure compensation before the shoot.
“The files were all different sizes of course, but they were all printed to 12x18 size at the default 300 PPI resolution of the Frontier, and cropped by the Frontier software to eliminate the letter ID above the models’ head in each frame. We also did some minor cropping to the full frame sensor camera files to make…
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